Cast
- Silambarasan Rajendar as Karthik Sivakumar, a Tamil Hindu Vellalar. He aspires to become a film director, and subsequently becomes assistant director to K. S. Ravikumar. Parallelly, he falls for his neighbour Jessie, a Syrian Christian. She accepts him, but her parents do not because of their personal differences. Despite all attempts to connect with Jessie, he ends up getting rejected by her.
- Trisha Krishnan as Jessie Thekekuttu, a Syrian Christian Malayali girl from Aalappuzha, Kerala. She comes from a strict family, to whom watching films, attending clubs, etc. are considered as sins. She falls for her assistant director neighbour Karthik and asks her parents to unite her with him, but they disapprove of him because of his profession and because he is a different religion from them. Forced to obey her parents, Jessie finally rejects Karthik, but still keeps him in her heart and eventually gets married.
- Ganesh Janardhanan as Ganesh, a cinematographer. He assists Karthik in his repeated attempts to connect with Jessie.
- Babu Antony as Jessie's father
- K. S. Ravikumar as himself. Karthik works for him as an assistant director.
- Naga Chaitanya as himself. An actor hired by Karthik to act as the male lead in Jessie, a film directed by Karthik himself.
- Samantha Ruth Prabhu as Nandhini. After Karthik's split with Jessie, she falls for him. He does not return her love, but let's her act in his directorial venture Jessie, as the titular character.
- Kitty as Sivakumar
- Sathiya as Jerry Thekekuttu
- Uma Padmanabhan as Mrs. Sivakumar
- Lakshmi Ramakrishnan as Teresa Thekekuttu
- Trisha Alex as Karthik's sister
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