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

Thotta Tharani

Art Direction

P. C. Sreeram

Director of Photography

Mani Ratnam

Director

B. Lenin

Editor

V. T. Vijayan

Editor

G. Venkateswaran

Producer

Muktha Ramasami

Producer

Muktha Srinivasan

Producer

Ilaiyaraaja

Original Music Composer, Playback Singer

Jamuna Rani

Playback Singer

K. S. Chithra

Playback Singer

Kamal Haasan

Playback Singer

M. S. Rajeswari

Playback Singer

Mano

Playback Singer

P. Susheela

Playback Singer

T. L. Maharajan

Playback Singer

Balakumaran

Dialogue

Ilaiyaraaja

Lyricist

Pulamaipithan

Lyricist

Mani Ratnam

Writer