Tamil Movie Review

Payanam film written and directed by Radha Mohan. Produced by Prakash Raj. Which is also being made as Gaganam in Telugu, The film is all about flight hijacking incident. In which Nagarjuna starts the lead role as Major Raveendra along with rest of the crew including Prakash Raj, Poonam Kaur, Sana Khan, Saran, Rishi, Iqbal Yaqub, Bharath Reddy, Ravi Prakash, Brahmanandam, M. S. Bhaskar, Manobala, Prithviraj, Thalaivasal Vijay, Elango Kumaravel, Badava Gopi, Mohan Ram, Nitheesh, Chaams.

Though Payanam is said to be action thriller it has nice comedy track running along with the story. After 13 long years Nagarjuna acted in a Tamil film. He was perfect for the role of National Security Guard (NSG) commando, the main credit goes to Radha Mohan and Prakash Raj who did research on role players and also spoke army officers and got things worked up.

The film starts by giving intro of all the passengers who travel in that flight, once the flight takes off to Delhi the hijack incident takes place and the terrorist ask the pilot to redirect the flight to pakistan but due to some engine fault it is landed in Tirupati airport.

The Tirupati airport was actually a set was errected at the Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad by art director Kathir included runway, traffic, ATC room and two planes with "perfect interiors".
Within a month the entire set was completed which was worth 3 crores. Which is like 20% of the entire film budget claims Prakash Raj.

Rest of the story revolves how Nagarjuna and Prakash Raj save the passengers from that flight.
Radha Mohan have taken story in a nice manner superb direction.

Pravin Mani has composed, the film's background score. The film has only one solo song, which was written by Vairamuthu's son Madhan Karky.