"Saketh Ram's wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta. He is convinced that Mahatma Gandhi is responsible for all the problems happening in the country. He sets out to kill him."
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
Nasaar
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
Renu Saluja
Editor
Sabu Cyril
Art Direction
Producer
Director
Playback Singer
Ajoy Chakrabarty
Lyricist
Asha Bhosle
Jagdish Khebudkar
Hariharan
Jolly Mukherjee
Mahalakshmi Iyer
Vibha Sharma
Gnanakoothan
Ilaiyaraaja
Bharat Shah
R.S. Shivaji
Sound Designer
Santhana Bharathi
Assistant Director
Co-Producer
S. Thirunavukkarasu
Director of Photography
Vikram Dharma
Stunts Coordinator
V Selvakumar
Assistant Art Director
Original Music Composer
Manohar Shyam Joshi
Dialogue
Story
Sarika
Costume Design
Choreographer
Anupama Deshpande
Screenplay