"A villager, Gurukant Desai, arrives in Bombay in 1958, and rises from its streets to become the biggest tycoon in India."
Abhishek Bachchan
as Gurukanth Desai
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
as Sujata Desai
Mithun Chakraborty
as Manik Dasgupta
R. Madhavan
as Shyam Saxena
Vidya Balan
as Meenakshi "Meenu" Saxena
Arya Babbar
as Jignesh
Mallika Sherawat
as Champa
Prathap Pothan
as K R Menon I.A.S.
Sachin Khedekar
as Sujata's Father
Manoj Joshi
as Ghanshyam Bhai
Dhritiman Chatterjee
as Contractor Sahaab
Nina Kulkarni
as Sujata's Mother
Roshan Seth
as Thapar
Arjan Bajwa
as Arzaan Contractor
Mukesh Bhhatt
as Ram Lal
Rajendra Gupta
as Kantilal Desai
Darshan Jariwala
as Anand Patekar
Sarita Joshi
as Guru's Stepmother
Sanjay Mishra
as
Sudhir Pandey
as Mathura Das
Elina Wadiwala
as uncredited
Mani Ratnam
Director
Producer
Story
Nitin Wable
Art Direction
B Chintu Mohapatra
Line Producer
N. Azhagamperumal
Dialogue
Brinda
Choreographer
Anu Parthasarathy
Costume Design
Samir Chanda
Production Design
Navzar Eranee
Assistant Director
Rumaan Kidwai
Ilhan Kizilkaya
Sabu Cyril
Ameira Punvani
Screenplay
Vijay Krishna Acharya
Saroj Khan
Sreekar Prasad
Editor
Vikram Dharma
Stunt Coordinator
A.R. Rahman
Original Music Composer
Rajiv Menon
Director of Photography
Chetan Pathak
Gulzar
Lyricist
Shaad Ali
G. Srinivasan
R. Kannan