Kamal Haasan

as Veerasekaran Senapathy / Chandra Bose

Manisha Koirala

as Aishwarya

Urmila Matondkar

as Sapna

Sukanya

as Amrithavalli

Nedumudi Venu

as Krishnasamy

Manorama

as Kuppamma

Goundamani

as Subbaiyaa

Senthil

as Panneerselvam

Kasturi Shankar

as Kasthuri

Nizhalgal Ravi

as Corrupt Doctor

Crazy Mohan

as Parthasarathy

Ajay Rathnam

as Freedom Fighter

Ponnambalam

as 'Kada' Kumar

Bala Singh

as Treasury department officer

Chokkalinga Bhagavathar

Omakuchi Narasimhan

as Lorry Driver

Vikram Dharma

Kovai Senthil

Mahanadhi Shankar

S. Ve. Venkatraman

Shankar

as Self

Nassar

as Krishnasamy (voice)

Rohini

as Aishwarya (voice)

Bhanupriya

as Sapna (voice)