Nayakan

Kamal Haasan

(Sakthivel 'Velu' Naicker)

Saranya Ponvannan

(Neela)

Karthika

(Charumati)

Janagaraj

(Selvam)

Vijayan

(Durai)

Delhi Ganesh

(Iyer)

Nizhalgal Ravi

(Surya)

Nassar

(Assistant Commissioner Patil)

Tara

(Shakila)

R. N. Sudarshan

(Reddy)

A. R. Srinivasan

(Police commissioner)

Goga Kapoor

(Chandrakant Kohli)

Kitty

(Rathnavelu Naicker, Velu's Father)

Tinnu Anand

(Ajit Kelkar)

Prathapa Chandran

(Minister of Law & Public Affairs)