Nalla Sivam
Anbarasu
Kandasamy Padayachi
Bala
Kandasamy Padayachi's Assistant
Balasaraswathi's Mother
Uthaman
Railway Station master
Padayatchi's assistant
Train Ticket checker for the Coromandel Express[
Police Inspector
Roadside drunkard
Mehrunissa
Tea stall owner
Street theatre performer
Union worker
Self
Anbarasu, young and arrogant, and Nallasivam, damaged - physically but not spiritually - by life, are thrown together by circumstances, and find that they are in some ways bound together by fate.