Directed by
| S. Shankar | ... | (as Shankar) |
Writing Credits
| S. Shankar | ... | (written by) (as Shankar) |
| Sujatha | ... | (dialogue) |
| Swanand Kirkire | ... | (hindi dialogue) |
| Madhan Karky | ... | (dialogue) |
Cast (in credits order)
| Rajinikanth | ... | Dr. Vaseegaran / Chitti (as Rajnikanth) | |
| Aishwarya Rai Bachchan | ... | Sana | |
| Danny Denzongpa | ... | Dr. Bohra | |
| Santhanam | ... | Siva | |
| Karunas | ... | Ravi | |
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Delhi Kumar | ... | Vaseegaran's Father |
| Cochin Hanifa | ... | Traffic Police | |
| Kalabhavan Mani | ... | Pachaimuthu | |
| Devadarshini Chetan | ... | Latha | |
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Raaghav Ranganathan | ... | Bad Boy Next Door |
| Sabu Cyril | ... | Agent Shah | |
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Revathi Sankaran | ... | Dr. Vasigaran's Mother |
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Chaams | ... | Barber |
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Sai Dheena | ... | Thug |
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Sugunthan | ... | Walkie-Talkie Inspector |
| Shriya Sharma | ... | School student | |
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Kriz Chris Henri Harriz | ... | Austrian Goon |
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Shylaja Chetlur | ... | Gynecologist |
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Kristian Hedegaard-Petersen | ... | Austrian Arms Dealer |
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Neha Kapoor | ... | Dancer |
| S. Shankar | ... | Cameo Appearance as Military Soldier | |
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Sujeet Kumar Sharma | ||
Produced by
| Justin Bird | ... | line producer |
| Bruno Canale | ... | line producer |
| Kalanithi Maran | ... | producer |
| Jack Rajasekar | ... | executive producer: Hollywood |
| Hansraj Saxena | ... | executive producer (as W. Hansraj Saxena) |
| Hari Vishnu | ... | associate producer |
Music by
| A.R. Rahman | ||
Cinematography by
| R. Rathnavelu | ... | director of photography (as Ratnavelu) |
Editing by
| Anthony | ||
Production Design by
| Sabu Cyril | ||
| Imran Manzoor | ||
Art Direction by
| Santosh Kotkar | ||
Costume Design by
| Manish Malhotra | ||
| Mary E. Vogt | ||
Makeup Department
| Banu | ... | key makeup artist |
| Vance Hartwell | ... | special makeup effects artist |
| Aimee Macabeo | ... | special makeup effects artist |
| Laura Quijandria | ... | key makeup artist |
| J. Alan Scott | ... | makeup department head (as Alan Scott) |
| Vivek Singh | ... | Personal Makeup Artist: personal makeup artist |
Production Management
| Dinesh Nair Mumbai | ... | production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
| Atlee | ... | assistant director |
| Manoj K. Bharathi | ... | first assistant director (as Manoj Bharatiraaja) |
| N Gulab | ... | trainee assistant director |
| Mohmmad Yunus Ismail | ... | assistant director |
| KS Jairam | ... | co-director (as K.S. Jairam) / first assistant director (as K.S. Jairam) |
| Shankar Nutheti | ... | trainee assistant director |
| Vijay Anand S. | ... | assistant director |
Art Department
| Sabu Cyril | ... | set designer |
| Anil Jadhav | ... | assistant art director |
| Mauricio Ruiz | ... | concept artist (as Maury Ruiz) |
| Suresh Selvarajan | ... | assistant art director |
| Simon Webber | ... | character designer |
Sound Department
| Shalini Agarwal | ... | adr recordist |
| Kyle Billingsley | ... | foley mixer |
| Sajjan Choudhary | ... | foley artist |
| Jayesh Dhakan | ... | adr recordist |
| Amrit Pritam Dutta | ... | sound designer / sound designer/sound editor |
| Arunav Dutta | ... | sound editor |
| Kannan Ganpat | ... | sound mixer |
| Vijay Kumar | ... | sound editor (as Vijaya Kumar) |
| Mark Lanza | ... | sound effects editor |
| Tom Marks | ... | re-recording mixer |
| Venkata Pari Natarajan | ... | adr recordist |
| Rick Owens | ... | foley artist |
| Lucas Pedersen | ... | sound editor |
| Resul Pookutty | ... | sound designer |
| Ishwarjeet Poudel | ... | sound engineer |
| Kunal Rajan | ... | sound editor / sound effects editor |
| Arun Rama Varma | ... | sound effects editor |
| John Sanacore | ... | foley mixer |
| Karnail Singh | ... | foley artist |
| Pramod Thomas | ... | sound mixer |
| Alex Ullrich | ... | foley artist |
| Jayant Vajpayee | ... | audiographer |
| Varun Visoi | ... | foley recording |
Special Effects by
| Jim Charmatz | ... | character designer |
| Brian Claus | ... | model construction |
| Michelle Deville | ... | fabrication department: Legacy Effects |
| Jared Guenther | ... | special effects technician |
| Taea Hartwell | ... | special effects makeup |
| Anthony Julio | ... | special effects makeup |
| Aimee Macabeo | ... | special makeup effects artist: Legacy Effects |
| David Monzingo | ... | special effects makeup: Legacy FX |
| Steven Munson | ... | mold maker: Legacy Effects |
| Christopher Allen Nelson | ... | special effects makeup |
| Toi Ogunyoku Jr. | ... | model department: Legacy Effects |
| James Springham | ... | model department: Legacy Effects |
| Cole Taylor | ... | legacy effects administrative staff |
| Babu Tyagi | ... | armoury supervisor |
Visual Effects by
| Adel Adili | ... | visual effects |
| Arun Kumar Akavaram | ... | lighting artist |
| G.G. Amuthan | ... | senior compositor |
| Sanjay Baghel | ... | cg lighting artist |
| Nagarjuna Bollapalli | ... | digital compositor: TickelBug Creative Studios |
| Chi Wai Chan | ... | visual effects senior technical director |
| Anoop Chandran | ... | matchmove artist: EFX |
| Barish Chandran | ... | visual effects artist: Vensat Tech Services |
| Chu Chu Cheng | ... | visual effects producer |
| Tak Keung Cheung | ... | computer animator |
| Yiu Ho Cheung | ... | visual effects coordinator |
| Sino Ming-Hon Choi | ... | senior animator |
| Edwin Chow | ... | digital lighting technical director |
| Chen-On Chu | ... | visual effects producer |
| Choi-Ying Chung | ... | visual effects coordinator |
| Dennis Chim Kwan Chung | ... | visual effects artist |
| Frankie Chung | ... | visual effects supervisor |
| Wing Hang Chung | ... | visual effects artist |
| Praveen D | ... | visual effects artist: 3D generalist |
| Paul Debevec | ... | visual effects |
| Vishwa Prakash Dhanalakota | ... | visual effects coordinator (as Viswaprakash Dhanalakota) |
| Pete Draper | ... | visual effects |
| Praveen Elango | ... | digital compositor |
| Fung Wan Fung | ... | computer animator |
| Gopalsamy | ... | compositing artist |
| K.V. Hariharan | ... | senior compositor |
| Jack Ho | ... | visual effects supervising producer |
| Chan Chun Hoi | ... | visual effects artist |
| Peter Hou | ... | visual effects artist |
| Wu Huiling | ... | visual effects artist |
| Vee Jay | ... | visual effects (as Vasanthan) |
| Zhizhong Ji | ... | visual effects artist |
| Usher Jiang | ... | visual effects artist |
| Rajesh Kumar K.V. | ... | matchmove artist: EFX |
| Chandra Sekhar Kamuju | ... | digital compositor |
| Gnana Kannan | ... | compositing supervisor |
| Ramesh Karthikeyan | ... | senior compositor |
| Eswarbabu Kolla | ... | compositor |
| Dondeti Koti Reddy | ... | lighting artist / visual effects artist |
| N. Balamurali Krishna | ... | visual effects |
| Ranjan Kumar | ... | visual effects artist |
| Kumaran | ... | compositor |
| Lakshmanakumar | ... | digital compositor |
| Chandran Lakshmanan | ... | digital compositor |
| Joe Lau | ... | visual effects artist |
| Wing-Suen Lau | ... | senior compositor |
| Ross Kar Hin Leung | ... | digital lighting technical director |
| Joe Ming Hang Lo | ... | visual effects artist |
| Yunpeng Lu | ... | visual effects artist |
| Zhihui Lu | ... | visual effects artist |
| Li Yun Man | ... | computer animator |
| Vinod Mannem | ... | visual effects artist |
| Binku Mathews | ... | rigging artist |
| Rudolf Menon | ... | lighting team lead / lighting technical director |
| Ponraj Mohan | ... | visual effects artist: efx |
| Srinivas Mohan | ... | visual effects supervisor (as V. Srinivas M. Mohan) |
| Vivek Mohan | ... | digital compositor |
| Nandhakishore | ... | matchmove artist |
| Ganesh Navgane | ... | di conformist |
| Edward Pak | ... | compositor |
| Azhagu Raj Pandian | ... | visual effects |
| Murali Manohar Reddy Penubadi | ... | visual effects |
| Lino Stephen Peter | ... | technical director |
| Ralph Chun Ho Poon | ... | cg supervisor |
| Purushothaman | ... | 3d supervisor |
| Rajiv Raghunathan | ... | digital intermediate production head |
| Raju | ... | visual effects artist |
| Pari Rajulu | ... | concept artist / texturing artist |
| Kaithapulla Ramakrishna | ... | matchmoving artist |
| Satheesh Rangasamy | ... | digital compositor |
| Abdul Rasheed | ... | digital compositor |
| Satya Reddy | ... | compositor |
| Manikandan Robert | ... | visual effects coordinator |
| Kalaivanan S. | ... | visual effects artist |
| Sajeev Sadanandan | ... | matchmove artist: EFX Chennai |
| Sanath | ... | visual effects supervisor |
| Navin Saran | ... | project manager |
| Stalin Saravanan | ... | visual effects supervisor: Vensat |
| Sathiyakumar | ... | motion capture tracker |
| S. Shankar | ... | visual effects coordinator |
| Andrew Shibi | ... | visual effects coordinator |
| Ju Songgeun | ... | visual effects artist |
| Sreeraj Sreedhar | ... | stereoscopic compositor |
| Addanki Subbaiah | ... | programmer / rigging artist |
| Nishant Subrahmanian | ... | animation supervisor |
| Chi Ho Suen | ... | animation director |
| Supreeth | ... | cg modeler |
| Kondareddy Suresh | ... | visual effects |
| Harihara Suthan | ... | sequence supervisor |
| Sridhar Telaprolu | ... | modellar: pixion |
| Iris Tsang | ... | visual effects producer: Kinomotive Studio |
| King Ho Tse | ... | digital compositing lead |
| Chiky Tsui | ... | compositor (as Tsui Wai Kit) |
| Venkat Karunakar Uday | ... | comp supervisor: Lead Compositor |
| Junaid Ullah | ... | visual effects producer |
| Sathishkumar Vadivelu | ... | compositor |
| Srinivasan Velayutham | ... | in-house digital supervisor (as Srinivasan Velayuthan) |
| Raja Vijayaraman | ... | motion capture clean-up |
| Liu Po Wah | ... | visual effects artist |
| Lo Siu Wing | ... | computer animator |
| Eddy Wong | ... | visual effects supervisor |
| Zerah Shing Yan Wong | ... | digital art director |
| Chen Xianpeng | ... | senior animator |
| Vinoth Yadhav | ... | : EFX / visual effects artist |
| Cathy Chan Ka Yi | ... | visual effects artist |
| Xiong Yiduo | ... | senior technical director |
| Marco Chun Yi Yip | ... | animation technical director |
| Lee Sheung Yue | ... | visual effects artist |
| Yak Hong Yung | ... | cg supervisor |
| Shaopeng Zang | ... | visual effects artist |
Stunts
| Amrin Abubakker | ... | Stunt double/stunt actor |
| Yannick Ben | ... | stunt performer |
| Peter Hein | ... | stunts |
| Kenny Lo | ... | stunt double |
| Alex Martin | ... | assistant stunt coordinator / stunt double |
| Jean-Charles Rousseau | ... | stunt performer |
| S. Shankar | ... | action designer |
| Yuen Woo-Ping | ... | stunts (as Woo-Ping Yuen) |
Camera and Electrical Department
| Aravindkumar | ... | first assistant camera |
| Douglas S. Holgate | ... | aerial dp |
| Kbanuchandar | ... | focus puller |
| Dinesh Krishnan | ... | associate cameraman |
| Nizar Shafi | ... | assistant camera |
| B.K. Sivan | ... | steadicam operator |
| J. Yuvaraj | ... | associate cameraman |
Animation Department
| Alige Ajith | ... | animator |
| Nayeem Mohammed | ... | animator |
| Kaithaplla Ramakrishna | ... | animator / layout artist |
| Kaithapulla Ramakrishna | ... | animator / layout artist |
Costume and Wardrobe Department
| Radhika Mehra | ... | costume assistant |
Editorial Department
| Sameer Arekar | ... | digital intermediate producer |
| Debakriti Kundu | ... | senior conformist: Reliance Mediaworks Ltd |
| Ken Metzker | ... | digital intermediate colorist |
Location Management
| Ramji Natarajan | ... | location logistics supervisor brazil and peru |
Music Department
| Javed Ali | ... | playback singer |
| Yogi B. | ... | playback singer |
| S.P. Balasubrahmanyam | ... | playback singer |
| Mark Berrow | ... | musician: violin |
| Bhuvanchandra | ... | telugu lyrics |
| Kazimir Boyle | ... | composer: additional music (as Kaz Boyle) |
| Clinton Cerejo | ... | playback singer |
| Mohit Chauhan | ... | playback singer |
| Chris Clad | ... | violin |
| Suzanne D'Mello | ... | playback singer |
| Benny Dayal | ... | playback singer |
| Matt Dunkley | ... | conductor / orchestrator |
| Shreya Ghoshal | ... | playback singer |
| Isobel Griffiths | ... | orchestra contractor |
| Hariharan | ... | playback singer |
| Naresh Iyer | ... | playback singer |
| Tony Joy | ... | sound engineer |
| Madhan Karky | ... | lyrics (as Karky) |
| Kash | ... | lyrics / playback singer (as Kash n' Krissy) |
| Swanand Kirkire | ... | hindi lyrics |
| Krissy | ... | lyrics / playback singer (as Kash n' Krissy) |
| Hentry Kuruvilla | ... | music arranger |
| Madhushree | ... | playback singer |
| Praveen Mani | ... | playback singer |
| Pradeep Menon | ... | assistant recording engineer |
| Shweta Mohan | ... | playback singer (as Swetha Mohan) |
| P.A.Deepak | ... | additional programmer: songs (as Deepak P.A.) / mix engineer (as Deepak P.A.) / recording engineer (as Deepak P.A.) / song mixer (as Deepak P.A.) |
| Vijay Prakash | ... | playback singer |
| A.R. Rahman | ... | playback singer |
| Khatija Rahman | ... | playback singer |
| Keerthi Sagathia | ... | playback singer (as Kirti Sagathia) |
| Sadhana Sargam | ... | playback singer |
| Tanvi Shah | ... | playback singer |
| Srinivas | ... | playback singer |
| Chinmayee Sripada | ... | playback singer |
| Ashok Tej Suddala | ... | telugu lyrics |
| Vairamuthu | ... | lyrics |
| Vanamali | ... | telugu lyrics |
| Srinidhi Venkatesh | ... | sound engineer |
| Pa. Vijay | ... | lyrics |
| Pradeep Vijay | ... | playback singer |
| Vinayak Vijayan | ... | music editor |
| Warren Zielinski | ... | musician: violin |
| Dave Foster | ... | music preparation (uncredited) |
| Geoff Foster | ... | score engineer (uncredited) |
| Steve Mair | ... | musician: double bass (uncredited) |
Additional Crew
| Remo D'Souza | ... | choreographer (as Remo) |
| Prabhu Deva | ... | choreographer |
| Parull Gossain | ... | publicist |
| Vance Hartwell | ... | extra |
| Rahul Nanda | ... | Publicity Designer |
| Shobi Paulraj | ... | choreographer (as Shobi) |
| Jayesh Pradhan | ... | assistant choreographer |
| A.M. Edwin Sakay | ... | making of & behind the scenes |
| Dinesh Shikari | ... | choreographer (as Dinesh) |
| Vijay Singh | ... | dancer |
| Raju Sundaram | ... | choreographer |
Thanks
| Kamal Haasan | ... | very special thanks |
| Shah Rukh Khan | ... | very special thanks |
| Sujatha | ... | in memory of |