The Chess Players(1977)

Sanjeev Kumar

Mirza Sajjad Ali

Saeed Jaffrey

Mir Roshan Ali

Amjad Khan

Wajid Ali Shah

Shabana Azmi

Khurshid

Farida Jalal

Nafisa

Veena

Queen Mother

David Abraham Cheulkar

Munshi

Victor Banerjee

Prime Minister

Farooq Shaikh

Aqueel

Tom Alter

Capt. Weston

Leela Mishra

Hirya

Barry John

Richard Attenborough

General Outram

Samarth Narain

Kallu

Bhudo Advani

Abbajani

Kamu Mukherjee

Uttamram Nagar

Khairatilal Lahori

Pradip Shankar

Ashfaq Mirza

Amrit Bhushan Gujral

Ramesh Khosla

Shaik Farid

Madan Sudan

Saswati Sen

Dancer (uncredited)

Amitabh Bachchan

Narrator (voice)

Bansi Chandragupta

Art Direction

Ashoke Bose

Assistant Art Director

Kabi Dasgupta

Background Designer

Zehra Tyabji

Graphic Designer

Joseph St. Anne

Graphic Designer

Anil Ghosh

Assistant Camera

Dilip Bannerji

Assistant Camera

Nemai Ghosh

Still Photographer

Sumantra Ghoshal

Still Photographer

Pablo Bartholomew

Still Photographer

Soumendu Roy

Director of Photography

Rabab Jaffri

Assistant Costume Designer

Sitara Jaffri

Assistant Costume Designer

Saba Zaidi

Assistant Costume Designer

Ananta Das

Makeup Artist

Pradip Bag

Assistant Makeup Artist

Haru Das

Wardrobe Master

Purnendu Bose

Assistant Camera

Jagdish Shetty

Administrative Assistant

Birju Maharaj

Songs, Choreographer

Ramesh Sen

Assistant Director

Sandip Ray

Assistant Director, Still Photographer

Satyajit Ray

Director, Screenplay, Dialogue, Original Music Composer

Dulal Dutta

Editor

Kashinath Bose

Assistant Editor

Suresh Jindal

Producer

Anil Choudhury

Production Executive

Bhanu Ghosh

Production Manager

J.N. Srivastava

Location Manager

Bolai Addy

Production Assistant

Trailokya Das

Production Assistant

Uma Da Cunha

Publicist

N.B. Sukhwani

Administration

Ana Maria De Souza

Administration

Narinder Singh

Sound

Arun Chakravarty

Sound Assistant

Dulal Das

Sound Assistant

Reba Muhuri

Songs

Mangesh Desai

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Samir Majumdar

Sound Recordist

Ram Mohan

Animation

Munshi Premchand

Short Story, Writer

Shama Zaidi

Costume Design, Dialogue

Javed Siddiqui

Assistant Director, Dialogue