Kamal Haasan as Avinasi/Avinash

Manisha Koirala as Ahalya

Nassar as ACP S.P. Rao

Om Puri as ACP S.P. Rao (Hindi)

Santhana Bharathi as Chettiar

Saurabh Shukla as Kishore Mehta (Hindi)

Ramesh Aravind as Thambhu

Pasupathy as Chidambaram

Vijay Raaz as Digambar (Hindi)

Sharat Saxena as Saxena

Kovai Sarala as Avinasi's Sister

Pratima Kazmi as Durga (Hindi)

Vaiyapuri as Johnson

Raza Murad as

Dinesh Lamba as Johnson (Hindi)

Uday Sabnis as Traffic Police (Hindi)

Rakhi Sawant as Cameo

Dheena Chandra Dhas as Raju