Kamal Haasan
— Avinasi/Avinash
Manisha Koirala
— Ahalya
Nassar
— ACP S.P. Rao
Om Puri
— ACP S.P. Rao (Hindi)
Santhana Bharathi
— Chettiar
Saurabh Shukla
— Kishore Mehta (Hindi)
Ramesh Aravind
— Thambhu
Pasupathy
— Chidambaram
Vijay Raaz
— Digambar (Hindi)
Sharat Saxena
— Saxena
Kovai Sarala
— Avinasi's Sister
Pratima Kazmi
— Durga (Hindi)
Vaiyapuri
— Johnson
Raza Murad
Dinesh Lamba
— Johnson (Hindi)
Uday Sabnis
— Traffic Police (Hindi)
Rakhi Sawant
— Cameo
Dheena Chandra Dhas
— Raju