Rishikumar
Arvind Swamy
Roja
Madhoo
Chinna Ponnu
Sujitha
Chandramoorthy, Rishikumar's Chief & RAW official
S. Ve. Venkatraman
Item number – Rukkumani Rukkumani
Raju Sundaram
Colonel Rayappa
Nassar
Achu Maharaj
Janagaraj
Liaqat
Pankaj Kapur
Wasim Khan
Shiva Rindani
Shenbagam
Vaishnavi
Cameo Appearance - one of the village seniors
C. K. Saraswathi
Rishikumar's mother
Sathyapriya
Roja's paternal grandmother
Vatsala Rajagopal
Playback Singer
Minmini
S. P. Balasubramaniam
Suresh Wadkar
Hariharan
Unni Menon
Sudesh Bhosle
K. S. Chithra
Lyricist
Vairamuthu
Producer
K. Balachander
Director
Mani Ratnam
Screenplay
Story
Shweta Shetty
Sujatha Mohan
Anupama Deshpande
Writer
Sujatha Rangarajan
G. Venugopal
Baba Sehgal
Director of Photography
Santosh Sivan
Editor
Suresh Urs
Original Music Composer
A.R. Rahman
Costume Designer
Nalini Sriram
Mano
Biju Narayanan
Uttara Kelkar
Ravindra Sathe
Jagadish Khebudkar
Mankombu Gopalakrishnan
Rajashri
P. K. Mishra