Kamal Haasan

as Avinasi/Avinash

Manisha Koirala

as Ahalya

Nassar

as ACP S.P. Rao

Om Puri

as ACP S.P. Rao (Hindi)

Santhana Bharathi

as Chettiar

Saurabh Shukla

as Kishore Mehta (Hindi)

Ramesh Aravind

as Thambhu

Pasupathy

as Chidambaram

Vijay Raaz

as Digambar (Hindi)

Sharat Saxena

as Saxena

Kovai Sarala

as Avinasi's Sister

Pratima Kazmi

as Durga (Hindi)

Vaiyapuri

as Johnson

Raza Murad

Dinesh Lamba

as Johnson (Hindi)

Uday Sabnis

as Traffic Police (Hindi)

Rakhi Sawant

as Cameo

Dheena Chandra Dhas

as Raju