Learning from Guruvayya that she loves Jai, Munna is enraged and kills Rahul after he teases him. Munna, on the other hand, visits the club to inquire about Jahnavi, a club dancer he is attracted to. Sabapathy tells him he switched sides not to retaliate but to protect himself. Jai demands a meeting with Sabapathy in exchange for Rahul's freedom. He asks Guruvayya to hold Rahul hostage at a club until he is back with Sabapathy. As per the plan, Jai kidnaps Rahul, the son of Kulkarni's brother Sampath. Receiving no support from Bhagavan, Sabapathy joins Kulkarni's gang, making Bhagavan order Jai to kill him. When Bhagavan's psychotic son Munna returns to India after 8 years, he mistreats the accountant Sabapathy and humiliates him. Jaidev is a Kolkata-based hitman working for a don named Bhagavan, and they together share a business rivalry with Kulkarni. The film performed well in the overseas but failed at the Indian box office. Upon release, it received generally mixed reviews from critics who praised the technical aspects, performances and action sequences while criticizing the narration pace and lack of lengthy songs. Panjaa was released theatrically on 9 December 2011.
The filming took place primarily at Kolkata, Pollachi, Karaikudi, Vagamon and Palasa. Principal photography of the film commenced on. Vishnuvardhan, who works primarily in the Tamil cinema, also makes his directorial debut in Telugu.
The film marks Dias' debut in Telugu cinema and Lavania's film debut. The film features music scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja and cinematography by P. The plot follows Jaidev (Kalyan), a gangster's loyal henchman who is forced to go on the run following a botched mission and killing his boss's son for committing a violent atrocity. The film stars Pawan Kalyan, Sarah-Jane Dias, Anjali Lavania, Jackie Shroff, Adivi Sesh and Atul Kulkarni. Claw) is a 2011 Indian Telugu-language action film directed by Vishnuvardhan and produced by Arka Media Works and Sanghamitra Art Productions. Pawan Kalyan was given a "much stylish look" for this film.Panjaa ( transl. Vishnuvardhan's wife, Anu Vardhan worked as the costume designer. Action sequences were choreographed by Shyam Kaushal, a noted stunt co-ordinator in Bollywood films, while Sunil Babu was chosen as the art director. Vinod was selected as the cinematographer in place of Nirav Shah who had worked on Vishnuvardhan's previous projects.
Sreekar Prasad, Vishnuvardhan's norm associates, were signed to score the music and handle the editing department, respectively, while P. Director-actor Sesh Adivi was roped in for an antagonist role, while Abburi Ravi was confirmed as the dialogue writer, in spite of earlier reports that suggested otherwise. However, eventually Mumbai -based model Anjali Lavania, best known for her appearances in the Kingfisher calendar and several other advertisements, was finalised for the second character. While former Miss India Sarah-Jane Dias was signed for one of the two female lead characters, making her Telugu film debut, Jiah Khan, and Shazahn Padamsee, who starred in Orange opposite Ram Charan Tej, were considered for the other role. It turned out that Abburi Ravi was roped in to write the dialogues, while the screenplay was provided by Rahul Koda. Reports also claimed that Krish, director of critically acclaimed films Gamyam (2008) and Vedam (2010), would pen the dialogues for the film, besides revealing that it would feature two female leads. He had planned to shoot both projects simultaneously from March 2011 on, but since that was not possible, he was forced to drop one of the projects, with Vishnuvardhan eventually deciding to direct this film. Vishnnuvardhan, following the release of his 2009 film Sarvam, which fared poorly at the box office, had been working on two scripts - the other one being the prequel to the 2007 version of Billa - but was unable to start either project due to unavailable dates of Pawan Kalyan and Ajith Kumar.
In November 2010 sources reported that director Vishnuvardhan would direct a film featuring Pawan Kalyan in the lead role, to be produced by Neelima Nagesh and Shobu Yarlagadda.