Anjuman

A young woman leads impoverished chikan embroidery workers in Lucknow in a strike against the greedy wholesalers who exploit them.

Cast

Shabana Azmi

as Anjuman

Farooq Shaikh

as Sajid

Rohini Hattangadi

as Dr. Suchitra Sharma

Mushtaq Khan

as Banke Nawab

Shaukat Azmi

as Chuhiya Begum

Yunus Parvez

Habib Azmi

Pramod Bala

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