Rajinikanth as Raja Lingeswaran / Lingaa

Anushka Shetty as Lakshmi

Sonakshi Sinha as Bharathi

Santhanam as Lingaa's Friend

Karunakaran as Kothandam

Jagapati Babu as Nagabooshan

Dev Gill as Freedom fighter

Brahmanandam as Raja Varman

Radha Ravi as Kavi Bharathi

Vijayakumar as Karunakara's father

Nizhalgal Ravi as Zamindar of Rayakottai

Sundarrajan as Sambandham

Manobala as Train Loco Pilot

Ilavarasu as Sami Pillai

Ponvannan as Government officer

Anu Mohan as Shanmugam

Lauren J. Irwin as Collector's wife

William Orendorff as British Governor

K. S. Ravikumar as "Finishing" Kumar

Jayaprakash as Government officer

Madhan Bob as Merchant

Crane Manohar as Merchant's security guard

Vasu Vikram as Nagabooshan's assistant

Ravi Mariya as Hotel manager

Rajkamal as Hotel security

C. Ranganathan as Hotel chief security guard

Vishalini Daniel as