 | Satya Bhabha als Saleem Sinai |
 | Shahana Goswami als Amina |
 | Shabana Azmi als Naseem |
 | Rajat Kapoor als Aadam Aziz |
 | Siddharth als Shiva |
 | Shriya Saran als Parvati |
 | Charles Dance als William Methwold |
 | Anupam Kher als Ghani |
 | Salman Rushdie als Narrator (voice) |
 | Dhritiman Chatterjee als Mian Abdullah |
 | Kusum Haider als Rani of Cooch |
 | Zaib Shaikh als Nadir Khan |
 | Samrat Chakrabarti als Wee Willie Winkle |
| Anita Majumdar als Emerald |
 | Shikha Talsania als Alia |
 | Rahul Bose als Zulfikar |
 | Ronit Roy als Ahmed Sinai |
| M.G.M.S. Zulfick als Mullah |
| Rakhi Kumari als Vanita |
 | Seema Biswas als Mary Pereira |
 | Harish Khanna als Joe D'Costa |
| Dhamayanthi Fonseka als Flory |
| Ainsley De Silva als Headmaster Crusoe |
| Tahir Mahmood als President Quivering |
 | Darsheel Safary als Young Saleem |
| Mohamed Safran Sarron als 2-Year-Old Little Aadam |
| Salman Rushdie | Screenplay |
| Deepa Mehta | Director |
| David Hamilton | Producer |
| Colin Monie | Editor |
| Giles Nuttgens | Director of Photography |
| Dolly Ahluwalia | Costume Design |
| Sundaresan Jegadeesan | Best Boy Electrician |
| Eric Putzer | Boom Operator |
| Rashid Ahmad | Tailor |
| Anne MacKenzie | Story Editor |
| Stephen Traynor | Line Producer |
| Robert Wertheimer | Line Producer |
| David McCallum | Supervising Dialogue Editor |
| Kapil Verma | Steadicam Operator |
| P.K. Chadrawathie | Tailor |
| Anuradha Ranjith | Painter |
| Lalith Darmawardane | Hairstylist |
| Sue Conley | Dialogue Editor |
| John LaForet | Stunt Coordinator |
| Ramesh Yogendran | Best Boy Electric |
| Carolyn Arbuckle | Script Supervisor |
| Arshad Khan | Property Master |
| Barry Gilmore | ADR Editor |
| Nitin Sawhney | Original Music Composer |
| Reid A. Dunlop | First Assistant Director |
| Dave Derry | Dolly Grip |
| Narinder Singh | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Sarah Deline | Production Coordinator |
| Brock Jolliffe | Special Effects Coordinator |
| Terry Banting | Gaffer |
| Mark Wotton | Best Boy Electric |
| Thilak Pushpa Kumara | Armorer |
| Tahir Mahmood | Art Direction |
| Dusty Mancinelli | Still Photographer |
| Geralyn Wraith | Makeup Department Head |
| Anthony Lordon | Location Manager |
| Deepa Mehta | Co-Writer |
| Shiuli Thukral | Set Decoration |
| David Rose | Sound Effects Editor |
| Surendra Kumar | Lighting Technician |
| Malcolm Mantara Rattanapitiya | Location Manager |
| Greg Denny | Production Coordinator |
| Renee Chan | Hair Department Head |
| Brent Pickett | Dialogue Editor |
| Talagalage Rasika Thathasarani | Tailor |
| S. Viswalingam | Tailor |
| Dilip Mehta | Production Design |
| Salman Rushdie | Book |
| Jason Garrett | Executive Producer |
| David Hamilton | Executive Producer |
| Alok Kapur | Line Producer |
| Elizabeth Karlsen | Co-Producer |
| Doug Mankoff | Executive Producer |
| Deepa Mehta | Executive Producer |
| Dilip Mehta | Creative Producer |
| Dilip Mehta | Executive Producer |
| David Rogers | Executive Producer |
| Salman Rushdie | Executive Producer |
| Steven Silver | Executive Producer |
| Andrew Spaulding | Executive Producer |
| Neil Tabatznik | Executive Producer |
| Stephen Woolley | Co-Producer |
