Cast

• Dharmendra as Veeru


• Sanjeev Kumar as Thakur Baldev Singh, usually addressed as "Thakur"


• Hema Malini as Basanti


• Amitabh Bachchan as Jai (Jai Dev)


• Jaya Bhaduri as Radha, Thakur's daughter-in-law


• Amjad Khan as Gabbar Singh


• Satyen Kappu as Ramlaal, Thakur's servant


• A. K. Hangal as Rahim Chacha, the imam in the village


• Sachin as Ahmed, son of the imam


• Jagdeep as Soorma Bhopali, a comical wood trader


• Leela Mishra as Mausi, Basanti's maternal aunt


• Asrani as the Jailor, a comical character modelled after Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator^[5]


• Keshto Mukherjee as Hariram, prison barber and Jailor's side-kick


• Mac Mohan as Sambha, Gabbar Singh's sidekick


• Viju Khote as Kaalia, another of Gabbar's men whom he kills in a game of Russian roulette


• Iftekhar as Inspector Khurana, Radha's Father


• Helen in a special appearance in song "Mehbooba Mehbooba"


• Jalal Agha in a special appearance in song "Mehbooba Mehbooba"