On screen
Cast
188 credited performers
Roshan Seth
Jawaharlal Nehru
Om Puri
Nigam (Ballia DM)
Ravi Jhankal
Kalidasa / Dushyanta
Ila Arun
Heggaditi
K.K. Raina
Azimullah Khan
Anang Desai
Vajashravasa
Vijay Kashyap
Chand Bardai
Lalit Tiwari
Shulgi
Salim Ghouse
Tipu Sultan
Pankaj Berry
Ashwathhama
John Holyer
Journalist
Aanjjan Srivastav
Dhanananda
Pallavi Joshi
Bade Khan
Devendra Malhotra
Ishanashiva
Veerendra Saxena
Matul
Achyut Potdar
Prof. Jinsivale
Sudhir Kulkarni
Selappa
Tom Alter
Sykes
Surendra Sharma
Tantya Tope
Aparajita Krishna
Khursheed
Ravi Khemu
Radheyshyam Sharma
Ved Thappar
Abdu' Rahim
Mansi Upadhyay
Maid
Lucky Ali
Paras
Harish Patel
Buddhist Monk
Ahmed Khan
Yudhishthir
Sohaila Kapur
Roshan Ara
Vishnu Sharma
Vasakara
Mushtaq Khan
General
Rakesh Srivastava
A Shudra
Mahendra Raghuvanshi
Makkali Gosala
Akhilendra Mishra
Soothsayer
Surendra Pal
Dara Shikoh
Ahmed Khan
Dr. Ahsan
Murlidhar
Qawali Singer
Ashok Banthia
Maharaja Mangal Singh
Mohan Gokhale
Vishnu Pant Thatte
Akhil Mishra
Jain Muni
Mita Vashisht
Suvasini
Virendra Razdan
Bahadur Shah Zafar
Aparajita
Salima
Adil Rana
Saudagar
Siraz Ahmed Khan
Hari Vaishya
Aashish Duggal
Qilij Khan
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Akbar
Rakesh Bidua
Shodhanaka
Khemendra Ganjoo
Ahmed Khwaja
Subrata Bose
Rash Behari Ghosh
Naseeruddin Shah
Shivaji
Salim Shah
Rajendralal Mitra
Satish Kaushik
Ramgopal Ghose
Rana Jung Bahadur
Babu Saheb
Anand Mishra
Madanna
Ranjana Gaur
Nanjamma
Brian Canavan
Mr. Hastie
Shabana Azmi
Rangamma
Piyush Mishra
Soldier-4
Dhruv Ghanekar
Nachiketa
Deepraj Rana
Jagirdar
Poonam Jha
Bindusara's Wife
Rakesh Dhar
Tirumala
Masood Akhtar
Kirtidhwaj
K.K. Raghuvanshi
Ambassador
Ashish Kotwal
Pashupata
Nisha Singh
Sanyukta
Virendra Razdan
Bhishma
S.C. Makhija
Sariputta
Rajesh Vivek
Sheikh Mubarak
Ashutosh Pathak
Vaman
Vaishali Dandekar
Dancer
Sunila Pradhan
Jijabai
Rajendra Gupta
Raja Nandkumar
Vijay Arora
Salim
Dharmesh Tiwari
Qutbuddin
Narayan Pati
Radhakant
Vijayan Nair
Srinivas Rao
Rajshri Pingle
Woman-I
Narayan Bhandari
Shaista Khan
Sudhir Dalvi
Shahjahan
Surekha Sikri
Jahan Ara
Alopi Verma
Ramoshi-2
S M Zaheer
Hamid Ali
Arjun Raina
Ali Adil Shah
Lubna Salim
Shaheen
Ratna Pathak Shah
Rani of Jhansi
Prabhakar Patankar
Nana Phadnavis
Alok Nath
Vivekananda
Kishore Kadam
Dr. Visharam Ghole
Savita Bajaj
Venkamma
Vipin Sharma
Seenu
Anil Saxena
Raj Narain
Irshad Hashmi
Agyat Baba
Amrish Puri
Raza Khan
Pallavi Joshi
Atri
Pankaj Berry
Barbarian
Anuradha Tarafdar
Dhanvati
Shreechand Makhija
Vasudatt
Teeja Bai
Self
Sujata Mehta
Draupadi
Neeraj Vora
Satyaki
Virendra Razdan
Bhishma
Raja Bundela
Sanjay
Master Javed
Durjay
Nafisa Sharma
Kausalya
Sulakshana Khatri
Shurpanakha
Utkarsh Mazumdar
Sudakka
Narendra Gupta
Digha
Champak Banerjee
Kinjalka
Ashutosh Gowariker
Prince Siddhartha / Buddha
Hemendra Bhatia
Acharya
Padmanabhan
Seleucus
Zarvan Patel
Alexander
Satyadev Dubey
Chanakya
Inayatullah Kantroo
Virochaka
S.P. Dubey
Mahendrabhatta
Jaspal Sandhu
Sushima
Anandi
Madhavi
Rekha Jayakar
Devandi
Rekha Parmar
Mother
Sunita Rao
Vasantmala
Sulabha Deshpande
Kavundi
Idries Malik
Charudatta
Arun Verma
Sthavaraka
Kanchan Gharpure
Priyangumanjari
Mala Kumar
Anusuya
Prabha Mathur
Priyamvada
Ritesh Pandey
Valkhanasa
Pramod Razdan
Sarathi
Meenakshi Thakur
Ambika
Aparajita
Queen Yashovati
Chandra Mohan
Rajyavardhan
Vasant Soman
Bana Bhatta
Deven Bhojani
Villager
Anang Desai
Appar
Pramod Moutho
Brahmin
Salim Arif
Firdausi
Navtej Hundal
Sarja
Seema Kelkar
Padmavati
Amrik Gill
Mehar
Irrfan Khan
Badayuni
Ajay Kumar
Achyutdevaraya
Vijay Rani Nair
Varadamba
Bhupendra Sandhu
Javara
Raj Sinha
Chinna Tirumala
Puneet Issar
Rana Pratap
Arun Bakshi
Atga Khan
Surendra Pal
Man Singh
Vinod Rathod
Tansen
Yusuf Khurram
Khurram
Jean Maneckjee
Admiral Saldana
Charan Saluja
Tapidas
Kanwaldeep Singh
Interpreter
Adarsh Tandon
Mirza Mahmood
Ajit Vachani
Tarachand
O.N. Aima
Mir Jumla
Mohammed Ishaq
Malik Jeevan
Rajendra Mehra
Ali Naqi
Shiv Sharma
Murad
Mahendra Raghuvanshi
Bajirao
Ravindra Sathe
Sampat Rao
Jalal Agha
Robert Clive
Vishal Singh
Najm-ud-daulah
Harjeet
Hyder Ali
Declan Hill
Stuart
Sami Usman
Ghulam Ali
Sunil Advani
David Hare
Urmila Bhatt
Mother
Pankaj Berry
Mangal Pande
Devendra Malhotra
Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar
Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Mahatma Phule
Shubhangi Gokhale
Savitri
Madhu Achwal
Govind Ranade
Parvez Merchant
Youth-II
Satish Tungare
Keshavrao
Sagar Zakhmi
Mahar
Imran Khan
Samiullah
Mohan Maharishi
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Mohini Sharma
Begum Syed Ahmed Khan
Narain Pati
Mahendra Gupta
Madhav Achwal
Govind Ranade
Kapil Kumar Kochar
Chitnavis
P. Dasgupta
Surendranath Banerjee
Bhavna Mukatiwala
Radhamma
Charan Saluja
Vasudev
Rajendra Mehra
Radha Mohan Singh
Shankar Sachdev
Farmer
Chandrakant Thakkar
ADM Mr Kakkar
Ravi Kemmu
Sant Kabir