arrives to the wedding hall to stop him. Kesavan is shocked to see Baashha alive in the form of Manikam. Frightened, he permits Priya to go along with Manikam. On learning that Baashha is alive, Antony escapes from prison, kills Kesavan for betraying him, and also kidnaps Manikam's family members, where he threatens Manikam to surrender failing which his family members will be killed. Manikam rushes to the spot, fights Antony and his gang and also saves his family. He nearly kills Antony, but is stopped by Dinakar. Antony then steals Dinakar's gun and tries to shoot Manikam, but is shot dead by Shiva from behind. Cast Rajinikanth as Manikam / Manick Baashha Nagma as Priya Raghuvaran as Mark Antony Janagaraj as Gurumurthy Devan as Kesavan Shashi Kumar as Shiva Vijayakumar as Rangasamy Anandaraj as Indiran Charan Raj as Anwar Baashha Kitty as DIG Dinakar Sathyapriya as Vijayalakshmi Shenbaga as Kavitha Yuvarani as Geetha Thalapathy Dinesh as Manik Baashha's henchman Mahanadi Shankar as Manik Baashha's henchman Jayaprakasam as Manik Baashha's henchman Daljith Singh as Manik Baashha's henchman Kavithalaya Krishnan as Krishnan Dhamu as Dhamu Rajeshkumar as Kesavan's henchman Narsing Yadav as Mark Anthony's henchman Joseph as Albert, Mark Anthony's henchman Vittal Rao as Kavitha's father-in-law --> Sethu Vinayagam as the college chairman Alphonsa (special appearance in the song "Ra Ra Ramaiah") Hemalatha as Mark Antony's daughter Production Development During the making of the Hindi film Hum (1991), its director Mukul S. Anand had considered and discussed with Rajinikanth a potential scene, where Shekhar (Amitabh Bachchan) would help his younger brother Vijay (Govinda) get a seat in the Police Academy. Anand discarded the scene because he did not find it suitable, but Rajinikanth felt it had the potential to develop into a script for a feature film. On the sets of Annaamalai (1992), Rajinikanth and its director Suresh Krissna discussed the scene, which Krissna also found to be interesting. The title Baashha was suggested by Rajinikanth to Krissna, who suggested to Rajinikanth that a Muslim connection to the script was needed. Krissna brought up the subject again to Rajinikanth during the making of Veera (1994), but Rajinikanth wanted to discuss the script only after completing Veera. The discarded scene from Hum became the foundation for Baashha where Rajinikanth's character in the film, Manikkam, helps his sister Geetha (Yuvarani) get admission to the medical college she had applied for. Krissna planned to