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.

A comedy script laced with action is very common in Tamil cinema. Vishal, opts for this no risk route in Theeratha Vilayattu Pillai, after flexing his muscles in his recent movies.

Theeratha Vilayattu Pillai is similar to Ranbir's Bachchna Aye Haseeno, Vishal is out to emulate the same as what Ranbir did Bachchna Aye Haseeno. Vishal tries his hand over comedy track, tosses off witty one liners with confidence, and runs around trees romancing not one but three girls! Karthik (Vishal) is an MBA graduate and the pampered son of a bank manager couple (Mouli and Ratna). Born in a rich family, Karthik

is ultra fastidious right from a pin to a plane, Karthik has an array of choices and picks only the best out of it.

So when he decides it's time for him to marry, he gets the idea to date three women and select the best. Karthik is helped in his endeavors by his three buddies, an auto driver (Santhanam), a teashop owner (Mayilsami) and a traffic constable (Sathyan).

How a boy as supercilious as Karthik could befriend such diverse men is a moot point.

Karthik comes across Jyothi (Tanushree Dutta), an athlete who has reservations about men. Her brother (Prakash Raj) runs a kangaroo court. Interestingly, she gets attracted to Karthik. Next on the list is Priya (Sarah Jane), a girl strongly rooted in traditional ideas who's ideal saas bahu material. There is also Tejaswini (NeetuChandra),

a seductive multi-millionaire and oneof the hottest babes in town. Before Karthik can make his final choice, Tejaswini discovers his intentions and decides to pin him down. By then a reformed Karthik has fresh challenges to face. Subsequent events forms the climax of the film.

Vishal has deliberately gone in for an image makeover. As a cool Casanova, he gets his act right. As usual his character is loaded with heroism, and he has enough fights and punchlines to keep him happy. He imitates Rajinikanth while advising Neetu about values in life, and he also reminds you of Padaiyappa and Suriya, especially in his dance movements.

There's an abundance of glamour, thanks to the presence of the three girls. Sarah Jane impresses, but she as to get her expressions right. Neetu Chandra oozes with oomph and Tanushree Dutta fails to make the most of her meaty role. Santhanam bags the limelight with his applause worthy jokes and gags. Prakash Raj in a cameo s at his best. Others who perform cameos are Sneha and Mallika Kapoor. Yuvan Shankar Raja's music is a let down except for a couple of songs which are listenable. Aravind Krishna steals the show with his cool and pleasant cinematography.

The major problem with the script is that the second half proceeds along a predictable path.

Also the scenes unfold without logic. Amply backed by rich production values, debutant Thiru makes his intention clear, he wants to please the youngsters and the front-benchers and it's Vishal who has to bear the brunt.

Prakash Raj one of the versatile multilingual actor who does real life character in a perfect manner, actor Prakash Raj got an offer to do the role of LTTE chief Vellupillai Prabhakaran in a Tamil film and he agreed to do it.

He stated that he would like to perform the role according to the dictates of the script and requirement of the director. He also stated that he will not do any homework or prepare for this role in details as he will think spontaneity will provide better results than anything.

He also refused to reveal the name of the director and producer of the proposed film.
An official announcement about the other star cast and technicians will be made shortly. The film will be first made in Tamil and later dubbed into Telugu and other languages depending on its success.