Kamal Haasan as Saket Ram

Shah Rukh Khan as Amjad Ali Khan

Vasundhara Das as Mythili Iyengar

Rani Mukerji as Aparna Ram

Atul Kulkarni as Shriram Abhayankar

Girish Karnad as Uppilli Iyengar

Om Puri as Goel

Hema Malini as Ambujam

Naseeruddin Shah as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Farida Jalal as Kasturba Gandhi

Vikram Gokhale as Maharaja

Saurabh Shukla as Lalwani

Nassar as Ibrahim

Sowcar Janaki as Mythili's Grandmother

Abbas as Munavar

Vaali as Bhashyam Iyengar

Iravati Harshe as Nafisa

V. S. Raghavan as K.T. Chari

Delhi Ganesh as Mr. Chari

Gollapudi Maruti Rao as Govardhan

Y. G. Mahendran as Yagyam

Vaiyapuri as Vedha

Arun Bali as Shaheed Suhrawardy

Shadaab Khan as Altaf Tailor

Yatin Karyekar as Qureshi

Manoj Pahwa as Jalal

Chandrahasan as Mohan Gandhiraman

Lewis Elbinger as Mortimer Wheeler

Tushar Gandhi as Self

Sharad Ponkshe as Nathuram Godse

Shubhangi Gokhale as Rani

Annapoorna as Mrs. Chattopadhyay

Shruti Haasan as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's Daughter

Arun Patekar as Sardar Vallabhai Patel

Raj Patra as Jawaharlal Nehru

Savar as Lord Mountbatten

Aravind Akash as Sankar Kishthaya

Shabbir Ahmed as Aparna's Attacker

A. C. Murali Mohan as Parthasarathy

Nikita Aria as Pushpa Iyengar