Cast

Credited cast:
	Rajinikanth	...	Kabaleeswaran - Kabali
	Nassar	...	Tamilnesan
	Radhika Apte	...	Kumudhavalli
	Kishore	...	Veerasekaran
	Attakathi Dinesh	...	Jeeva
	Kalaiyarasan	...	Thamizh Kumaran - Kumaran
	Dhansika	...	Yogi
	John Vijay	...	Ameer
	Sangili Murugan	...
	Riythvika	...	Meena
	Ramesh Thilak	...

Storyline

In June 2015, director Pa. Ranjith announced his third directorial venture, which would follow his previous two films Attakathi (2012) and Madras (2014), with Rajinikanth via Twitter. Working with Ranjith would make Kabali Rajinikanth's first film with a novel director for the first time since his collaboration with S. Shankar in Sivaji (2007). In an interview with IndiaGlitz, producer S. Thanu revealed that Rajinikanth had personally asked him to produce the Ranjith-directed film. The producer's commercially successful Bairavi (1978) was Rajinikanth's first lead role film and the two had not collaborated since. It was speculated that Rajinikanth's role would be based on a real-life mob boss from Chennai. Santhosh Narayanan was confirmed as the film's music composer, continuing his partnership with Ranjith after the latter's previous two films. Ranjith also retained G. Murali, the cinematographer of Madras.

On 17 August 2015, Ranjith announced the title of the film to be Kabali and that Rajinikanth would play the role of Kabaliswaran. The makers of the film had earlier considered using the title Kaali, which was the title of Rajinikanth's 1980 film. As that film did not do well in the Tamil Nadu box office at the time, the makers passed on using it for the new film. Another title, Kannabhiran, was also considered but it was later found that the title's rights were already held by director Ameer Sultan for a future film.

Malik Streams Productions and Distribution, a Malaysian media company has dubbed the film in Malay   

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