Gemini Ganesan

Sunderalingam / Vanjikottai vaaliban (Youth of vanjikottai) / Sunderam

Padmini

Princess Padma

Vyjayanthimala

Princess Mandakin

P. S. Veerappa

Senapathi

T. K. Shanmugam

Chokkalingam Navalar

P. Kannamba

Sivakami

S. V. Subbaiah

Murugan

M. S. Sundari Bai

Rangamma

C. R. Vijayakumari

Gowri

K. A. Thangavelu

Velan

T. P. Muthulakshmi

Velan's Wife

D. Balasubramaniam

Deposed King of Vanjikotta

R. Balasubramaniam

King of Ratna Theevu. Father of Mandakini.

T. K. Ramachandran

"Kothaval", assistant to Senapathi.