The cast of Tawaif - 1985 includes: Prabha Manjushree Rati
Agnihotri as Sultana Shashikala as Bilquis Bai Asrani as Constable
Pandya Iftekhar as Lala Fakirchand Shammi as Mrs. Nigam Arun Bakshi
as Zafar Poonam Dhillon as Kaynat Mirza Rishi Kapoor as Dawood
Mohammed Ali Khan Yusuf Zahi Kader Khan as Rahim Sheikh Ashok Kumar
as Mr. Nigam Dev Malhotra Achala Nagar Deepak Parashar as Sulaiman
Yunus Parvez as Umruddin Sushma Seth as Amina Bai Deepak Sethi
Ashok Sharma