Nayakan

Kamal Haasan

Sakthivel 'Velu' Naicker

Janagaraj

Selvam

Saranya Ponvannan

Neela

Karthika

Charumati

Delhi Ganesh

Iyer

Tinnu Anand

Ajit Kelkar

Nizhalgal Ravi

Surya

Nassar

Assistant Commissioner Patil

Pradeep Shakti

Inspector Kelkar

M. V. Vasudeva Rao

Hussain Bhai

Tara

Shakila

Vijayan

Durai

R. N. Sudarshan

Reddy

R. N. K. Prasad

Reddy

R. N. Jayagopal

Reddy

Kitty

Rathnavelu Naicker, Velu's Father

A. R. Srinivasan

Police commissioner

Goga Kapoor

Chandrakant Kohli

Prathapa Chandran

Minister of Law & Public Affairs

Babitha

Kuyili

Self (Special appearance in the song "Nila Adhu Vanathumele")

Aditya V. Modi

Young Shakthivel