- Master Manjunath as W. S. Swaminathan "Swami"
- Girish Karnad as W. T. Srinivasan
- Vaishali Kasaravalli as Swami's mother
- Suhasini Adarkar as Swami's grandmother
- Kanti Madiya as Muniya "Muni"
- B. Jayashree as Muniya's wife
- Somu as Shopkeeper
- Teddy White as Frank
- Deven Bhojani as Nitya
- Harish Patel as Various characters
- Anant Nag as Various characters
- Vishnuvardhan as Venkat Rao
- Shankar Nag as Venkatesh
- Ramesh Bhat as various characters
- Rohit Srinath as Rajam
- Raghuram Sitaram as Mani
- Chetan as S. Somashekar "Somu"
- Arundathi Nag as Kamala
- Sunil Sadanand as Mali, Jagan's son
- Mandeep Rai as Narsimha, Jagan's cousin
- Ashok Mandanna as Thanappa
- Vasanth Josalkar as Govind Singh
- Kalpana Naganath as various characters
- Dina Pathak as Ayah
- Jagadish Malnad as Sidda
- Mico Chandru as Swamy's father
- Sampath Raj as Ekambaram
- S. K. Padmadevi as Elderly villager
- Siddaraj Kalyankar (The Gold Belt) Main cast
