The scary images, screeching voices, a child or mentally challenged kids playing with mysterious invisible entities, ghosts walking upside down and finally a flashback to wind up the mystery. If you’re well versed with such pre-existing paradigms, you can make a horror film of this genre sans hurdles. But the biggest challenge is your method of presenting and keeping the audiences engaged.
Director Mysskin’s Pisasu as the title suggests is a horror film produced by director Bala. When these so-called filmmakers collaborate, the expectations shot up and we had the best expectations. Let us see how far the film thrills and chills our spines.
Baanu (Prayaga Martin) has been hit by an accident and Siddarth (Naga) standing alongside the road immediately takes her to the hospital. Something attracts Baanu towards him and before breathing her last while leaving his hands, she has an insatiable thirst in her. Months later, her ghost haunts the home of Siddarth and he must now try to find out what she really wants and who her actual murderer is. But there lies a deep mystery within him and the ghost doesn’t want him to discover the truth.
Naga doesn’t really show up with the best performance and actors in Mysskin’s films are always his mimics. Naga is no exception and so are the other characters.
Let us distinctly analyse the film based on its duration. From Minute 0-15, the film is so emotional as it gives you punch of heaviness. 15 minutes later, the sequences are not really matching, but from 30th minute, there is a sense of excitement and curiosity. But soon after the intermission, the momentum drops and there again, the way suspense and mystery is broke open, it creates the impact, but the mediocre storytelling flunks the show all the way.
Musical score is outstanding in places and Mysskin has tried using Arrol Corelli in the dimension of Ilayaraja. But cinematography by Ravi Roy is a huge disappointment. Nothing to blame him and all goes to Mysskin as he urges his cinematographers to place some weird camera angles.
On the whole, Pisasu has very few sequences that will engage you emotionally, but it doesn’t scare you anywhere, except couple of shots.
Verdict: Not the one that scares you to core
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