Director Linguswamy, known for his fertile imagination, has given the audience a new, weak story in ‘Payya’ which is hard to believe yet he has captured the spirit of the story very vividly.
Tamanna, the belle from Maharashtra, is very pretty with a slender body, sharp nose and striking complexion required for a heroine. Her beau Karthi is veteran actor Sivakumar’s son who has a deep voice and looks like the boy next door.
He is part of a group which goads him to attend an interview.
He spots Tamanna and starts liking her. She whizzes past him at times but he misses her.
He meets her by chance while waiting to pick up the owner of a car which he uses in a station.
She accompanies a rough man who wants to travel to Bangalore. At first Karthi, called Shiva, refuses to take them but when he spots Tamanna, called Charu, with the ruffian, accepts to drive them to their destination.
They leave the tough guy at a petrol pump and scoot. They both travel to Mumbai by car as Karthi has no choice and does it out of compassion.
 Their journey is interspersed with interesting events as both of them have to settle old scores when they reach Mumbai.
Charu arrives in Mumbai to find her grandmother. But she is denied permission by her uncle and abruptly leaves the house.
Karthi also meets his old enemy and takes him on. How they express their love and how they are united should be seen on screen in ‘Payya’.
Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja, son of Ilayaraja, is excellent with a good smattering of western touches.
The fight scenes could have been avoided to an extent as it is unbelievable how a youth can manage so many enemies single-handedly.
‘Paiyaa’ is worth seeing once.
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