"Roja lives in a Tamil village, and her sister is about to marry a man from the city, who decides to marry Roja instead and gets a job assignment in Kashmir, where some militants decide to kidnap them."
Arvind Swamy
as Rishikumar
Madhoo
as Roja
Nassar
as Colonel Rayappa
Janagaraj
as Achu Maharaj
Pankaj Kapur
as Liaqat
Shiva Rindani
as Wasim Khan
Vaishnavi
as Shenbagam
C. K. Saraswathi
as Cameo Appearance - one of the village seniors
Sathyapriya
as Rishikumar's mother
Vatsala Rajagopal
as Roja's paternal grandmother
Sujitha
as Chinna Ponnu
S. Ve. Venkatraman
as Chandramoorthy, Rishikumar's Chief & RAW official
Raju Sundaram
as Item number – Rukkumani Rukkumani
Mani Ratnam
Director
Sujatha Rangarajan
Writer
Story
Suresh Urs
Editor
Screenplay
K. Balachander
Producer
Nalini Sriram
Costume Designer
A.R. Rahman
Original Music Composer
Santosh Sivan
Director of Photography
Minmini
Playback Singer
Biju Narayanan
S. P. Balasubramaniam
Hariharan
Mano
Unni Menon
Baba Sehgal
K. S. Chithra
Sujatha Mohan
Shweta Shetty
Rajashri
Lyricist
Vairamuthu
Ravindra Sathe
Jagadish Khebudkar
G. Venugopal
Uttara Kelkar
Mankombu Gopalakrishnan
Anupama Deshpande
Suresh Wadkar
P. K. Mishra
Sudesh Bhosle