Here is our take on Panjaa movie if we had written the script! Enjoy!

Credits

Banner: Sanghamitra Arts & Arka Mediaworks

Cast: Pawan Kalyan, Anjali Lavania, Sara Jane Dias, Jackie Shroff, Atul Kulkarni, Sesh Adivi, Subbaraju, Tanikella Bharani, Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao, Ali, Brahmanandam, Jhansi etc

Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cinematography: PS Vinod

Lyrics: Ramajagoyya Sastry (Panjaa title song, Veyyi Raa Cheyyi Vey Raa, Paparayudu_, Chandrabose

Art Direction: Rajeevan
Dialogues: Abburi Ravi
Action: Shyam Kaushal
Editing: Srikar Prasad
Styling: Anu Vardhan
Story - screenplay - direction: Vishnu Vardhan (Telugu debut)
Producers: Neelima Tirumalasetti, Nagesh Muntha, Shobhu Yarlagadda and Prasad Devineni

Opening sequence: Open the movie in Kolkata, father dying. Who and why they killed him, show that he was involved in violence and it sort of runs in the family and it took their lives.

They come to Kolkata and you can keep the same sequence but it’s very uncomfortable to watch on screen. Mother and sister die and Jai is heartbroken.

Then show Jai as someone wandering, completely lost, sits in rain, has no food. In a nearby area, a man named Bhagwan stays and having recently lost his wife, sees Jai on the street. He was once an empathetic man who cared for others before he got his power.

Then he asks Jai what happened and Jai says these men raped and killed my mom. Bhagawan finds them and gives the gun to Jai and he kills them.

Bhagawan asks Jai if his heart is satisfied. He says he doesn’t know. But much like Athadu, he doesn’t know anything else. And becomes a killer to ease the pain of his traumatic childhood. In Bhagwan’s house, he raises some plants and they calm his mind. By doing this we can empathize with his character and root for him.

In Bhagawan’s house, he meets Munna who has always had psychological issues from the beginning but he and Jai get along somewhat. Bhagwan slowly rises to power by performing other jobs and becomes a huge kingpin in that Kolkata.

Open on present day. Kolkata gang wars are established and like opening of Pokiri, somebody is doing investigation into gang wars there and find out that it’s a war between Bhagawan and Kulkarni. Kulkarni has been a huge rival to Bhagwan over the last 25 years and is determined to kill him. Yelagaina aa Bhagwan gaadini champali. He launches an ambush on Bhagawan. Goons rush the house and see that it’s empty. Two goonns standing outside are there and the car explodes! PK intro just like the original movie.

Back to back fights and then Jai comes home and he is exhausted. The psychological effects of being a killer and these gang wars have taken a toll on him. Since he was young, he used to raise plants to get away from the stress so he hangs out in the greenhouse and meets the girl. Because they have the same interest and they keep hanging out and they fall in love.

Delve more into Jai and Bhagawan’s relationship and how their dynamic works. As well as Jai and Munna. Munna is known to be psychotic and he is jealous to Jai because showed him same love and affection that he showed to him. Jai takes a special attraction towards Anjali because what he saw when he was young had a special bond with his mother and sister.

Bhagwan felt that his son and adopted son were always equal and didn’t listen to Jai’s warnings about Munna because he is his son.

Feeling betrayed, Bhagwan decides to kill Jai and like a cat and mouse game from Awara movie. One fight after the other with road trip type of screenplay with heroism. Eliminate all the comedy part with Brahmi and just stick to racy screenplay with action.

Last he eliminates everyone and kills Bhagwan in a big hand to hand fight, master vs henchman and kills him with a knife piercing his neck, symbolizing that a claw has pierced the tigers neck and killed him, giving justification to the title Panjaa.

The end.

Revisting Panjaa (2011): Script Rewrite + Interesting Facts