The film was based on Abbas's own story, One Thousand Nights on a Bed of Stones, which describes the struggle in the life of pavement dwellers in the backdrop of rapid industrialization.
Dilip Raj
Bholaram
Surekha
Radha
Nana Palsikar
uncle Johnny, the violinist
Manmohan Krishna
Deewana, the poet
Anwar Hussain
Anwar, the actor
David Abraham Cheulkar
Pandurang, the wrestler
Asit Sen
Rashid Khan
Jagdish Kamal
