Radha Mohan directed Payanam, starring Nagarjuna and Prakash Raj is likely to release for Diwali.
It is a bi-lingual in Tamil and Telugu (Gaganam) produced by Prakash Raj and leading Telugu producer and distributor Dil Raju.
It is Radha Mohan first action packed thriller after doing soft, critically acclaimed films like Mozhi and Abhiyum Naanum. The film is about a plane hijack, but nothing to do with Kandahar hijack. Nagarjuna plays a commando, while Prakash Raj is a senior bureaucrat.
Radhamohan has said that the film was shot in an airport set created in Ramoji Rao studios in Hyderabad and is a “mixture of real incidents blended with imagery, to make it edge-of-the seat thriller.” The film has no songs or romance and is said to be like a Hollywood action thriller.