Sivaji Ganesan as Nadaswara Chakravarthi "Sikkal" Shanmugasundaram

Padmini as Mohanambal

T. S. Balaiah as Muthurakku

Manorama as "Jil Jil" Ramamani

A. V. M. Rajan as Thangarathnam

Ambika Sukumaran as Maragatham

C. K. Saraswathi as Vadivambal

K. Balaji as "Singapuram Minor" Chelladurai

M. N. Nambiar as Maharaja of Madhanpur

M. Saroja as Abaranji Vethalai Petti

Nagesh as "Savadal" Vaithi

Udaya Chandrika as Singaram's wife

K. A. Thangavelu as Nattuvanar Muthukumara Swamy

M. Bhanumathi as Mary

T. R. Ramachandran as Varathan

Chittoor V. Nagayya as Sundaram's Nadaswaram teacher

Shanmugasundari as Veena player in Mohana's troupe

S. V. Sahasranamam as Saint living in Thiruvarur

K. Sarangapani as Sakthivel

E. R. Sahadevan as 'Minor' Nagalingam

A. Karunanidhi as Sudalai

P. D. Sambandam as Thaalam player in Sundaram's troupe

Senthamarai as Kadambavanam

S. Rama Rao as

Kallapart Natarajan as

T. N. Sivathanu as