Payanam (2011)

Whats it about:
A Delhi bound Chennai flight is hijacked by terrorists and due to technical issues, lands in Tirupati. The terrorists demand the release of their leader. The Indian bureaucracy and NSS commandos start their negotiations with the terrorists.
     The Indian Govt. budges to the demands but due to unforeseen circumstances the terrorist's kingpin is killed and the commandos spring up with a plan to tackle the disturbed hijackers who start wrecking some havoc by killing a passenger on board.

                                                                          

Hits

• Radha Mohan's humor touches. There are a variety of characters on the plane. A superstar, his fan, a doctor, an X commando, a Brahmin husband wife duo, a jobless educated person, a Christian father, an astrologer, a young Pakistani girl child etc etc. Each of the above has some nice characterization. 
• The scenes involving the timid superstar and his over expecting fan are a scream. Nice sarcasm on the current trend of over heroism is shown through these scenes. The over enthusiastic media reporting is also shown nicely in this movie. 
• Nagarjuna and Prakash Raj are adequate as Raveendran, the commando and Vishwanath, the negotiator. Nagarjuna looks awesome.
• The planning of the NSS commandos to eliminate the terrorists is awesome. And the execution scenes are also quite good for the most part. Nail biting tense stuff. Thalaivasal Vijay and Poonam Kaur have some weight in these scenes. 

Misses

• Just an average BGM score for an action movie like this
• Needless drama by the lone terrorist in the climax
• The final bomb explosion scene is comic. Needless heroism and it looks silly
• The humor scenes of Brahmanandam and the terrorist lookalike are quite needless and stick out like a sore thumb. In fact, the humor is sort of a speed breaker in some scenes. 

VERDICT

A decent watch. Some loose edges could have been tied up and this already engaging movie would have been even more gripping.