The film stars Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi and Smita Patil in the lead roles.

[5] The film captures the anger of a worker, in Mumbai exemplified by a young Christian car mechanic, Albert Pinto (Naseeruddin Shah), who is under the illusion that if he works hard and emulates the rich, one day he can also be successful.

Pinto gets angry with the supposedly wrong attitudes of the workers who he assumes go on strike under any pretext.

Towards the end of the movie, Pinto still remains an angry man; but now his anger is directed against the capitalists, not the striking workers.

With a cast of Manav Kaul, Nandita Das and Saurabh Shukla, the official remake was directed by Soumitra Ranade.