"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
Nasaar
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
K. Balachander
Producer
Screenplay
Story
Suresh Urs
Editor
Santosh Sivan
Director of Photography
A.R. Rahman
Original Music Composer
Nalini Sriram
Costume Designer
Minmini
Playback Singer
S. P. Balasubramaniam
K. S. Chithra
Sujatha Mohan
Unni Menon
Hariharan
Baba Sehgal
Shweta Shetty
Mano
Biju Narayanan
G. Venugopal
Uttara Kelkar
Suresh Wadkar
Anupama Deshpande
Ravindra Sathe
Jagadish Khebudkar
Lyricist
Mankombu Gopalakrishnan
Rajashri
P. K. Mishra
Vairamuthu
Sudesh Bhosle