Rajinikanth

Raja Lingeswaran / Lingaa

Brahmanandam

Raja Varman

Anushka Shetty

Lakshmi

Dev Gill

Freedom fighter

Radha Ravi

Kavi Bharathi

Crane Manohar

Merchant's security guard

K. S. Ravikumar

"Finishing" Kumar

Madhan Bob

Merchant

Manobala

Train Loco Pilot

Sonakshi Sinha

Bharathi

Nizhalgal Ravi

Zamindar of Rayakottai

Jagapati Babu

Nagabooshan

Ilavarasu

Sami Pillai

Jayaprakash

Government officer

Santhanam

Lingaa's Friend

Karunakaran

Kothandam

Ravi Mariya

Hotel manager

Vijayakumar

Karunakara's father

Ponvannan

Government officer

Vasu Vikram

Nagabooshan's assistant

Sundarrajan

Sambandham

Anu Mohan

Shanmugam

Lauren J. Irwin

Collector's wife

William Orendorff

British Governor