The Test

The postmaster of a village receives a check for 500,000 rupees, for the purpose of bequeathing it to the village’s most upstanding citizen.

Motilal

Haradhan / Sir Jagdish Chandra Roy

Nazir Hussain

Nivaran / Postmaster

Leela Chitnis

Nivaran's Wife

Vasant Chowdhury

Prof. Rajat Sen

Asit Sen

Harihar Bhanj / Bhanju babu

Jayant

Rai Bahadur Tandav Tarafdar / Zamindar

Kanhaiyalal

Pandit Tarkalankar

Rashid Khan

Doctor

Mumtaz Begum

Zamindar's Wife

Paul Mahendra

Jagdish Roy's Secretary

Moni Chatterjee

Vaidji

Keshto Mukherjee

Doctor's help

Nishi

Ajanta / Zamindar's Sister-In-Law

Hari Shivdasani

Headmaster

Praveen Paul

Lady listening to gossip

Durga Khote

Sir Jagdish Chandra Roy's Mother

Sadhana Shivdasani

Seema (Nivaran's daughter)