Payanam

Feb 11, 2011

2h 11m

★ 6.2

Overview

When terrorists hijack a plane from Chennai, a struggle with the pilots damages the engine forcing them to make an emergency landing in Tirupati. NSG commando Ravi is entrusted with rescue operations.

Genres

Action

Drama

Thriller

Payanam Trailers

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Cast

Major Ravindra

Nagarjuna Akkineni

Vishwanath

Prakash Raj

Air Hostess Vimala Gupta

Poonam Kaur

Sandhya

Sana Khaan

Subash

Elango Kumaravel

Shining Star Chandrakanth

Babloo Prithiveeraj

Narayana Shastry

Manobala

Director Rajesh Kapur

Brahmanandam

Flight Captain Girish

Ravi Prakash

Yusuf Khan and Ranganathan

Sricharan

Vinod

Rishi

Praveen, the drug addict

Narayan Lucky

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