Kamal Haasan as Michael / Madan / Kameshwaran / Raju

Khushboo as Shalini

Urvashi as Tiruppura Sundari

Santhana Bharathi as Michael's foster father

Delhi Ganesh as Palakkad Mani Iyer

Manorama as GangaBai, ChakkuBai's mother

S. N. Lakshmi as Sundari's grandmother

Crazy Mohan as

Venniradai Moorthy as Shalini's father

Nagesh as Avinashi

Nassar as RamGopal, Madhan's cousin

Jayabharathi as Sushila

R.S. Shivaji as David

Rupini as Chakku Bai

R. N. K. Prasad as Venugopal

R. N. Jayagopal as Nandagopal

Ponnambalam as

Gopinath Rao as Varadhu Kutty

Praveen Kumar Sobti as Bheem