Avvai Shanmugi

Kamal Haasan

Avvai Shanmugi / Pandiyan

Meena

Janaki

Gemini Ganesan

Vishwanathan Iyer

Nagesh

Joseph

Manivannan

Mudaliyar

Nassar

Basha

Delhi Ganesh

Sethuram Iyer

Heera Rajgopal

Rathna

Rani

Kousi

Baby Anne

Bharathi

Bayilvan Ranganathan

Idichapuli Selvaraj

Kavithalaya Krishnan

Lawyer

S. P. Balasubramaniam

Dr. Subbu

Raghuram

Self

Crazy Mohan

Interviewer

Ramesh Aravind

Self

R. Neelakantan

Judge

Vaiyapuri

Flower decorator

Ramesh Khanna

Film director

Kanal Kannan

Rogue

K. S. Ravikumar

Spectator

Uma Bharani

Janaki (voice)

Savitha Reddy

Rathna (voice)

Kovai Senthil

(Uncredited)

Peter Hein

Fighter (uncredited)