Deliberately scaring audiences with the improperly combed hair, shabby gory looks and that’s an awful method to scare the audiences. Time and again, Tamil filmmakers are punched by these factors and never miss to get out of such paradigms. Mysskin’s Pisasu director Bala is seemingly different with its tale, but when it comes to the narrative style, the director terribly fails and here’s our exclusive review on this film.

 Story

 Bhavani (Prayaga Martin), a beautiful girl is terribly hit by an accident and Siddarth (Naga), a youngster runs to save her on the roadside along with an auto driver. Although, she has few minutes to left for her life to sustain, she doesn’t move her eyes and smile away from him. She holds his hands so firmly and once he leaves her before entering into the operation theatre, she departs from this world. Broken down in life, his days are filled with sadness even after months it had occurred, but sooner the girl’s ghost haunts his home. If you think, the rest of this story is all about how Siddarth unravels the person behind her death, yes you’re right, but only to a certain extent.

 Performances

 Naga doesn’t have much to perform and his stark expressions and mannerisms evoke the impact only in few places. Prayaga Martin doesn’t get a long duration to appear in her beautiful avatar, but has exerted a lot of life into the ghostly figure. Radharavi as a desolated father delivers a powerful performance. Others in the cast including the exorcist bashed away by the ghost are okay.

 Plus

 The twist and surprises that offered by Mysskin is something we don’t expect or predict. The first half of this film is so engaging and background score makes it more appealing. Although, the post-accident sequences in first half, which runs up to 20 minutes doesn’t have the proper scenes, the actual drama begins when a roughneck rushed to stab Naga himself becomes victim to it. Background score is brilliant in places, especially the pieces with violin are remarkable.

 Minus                  

 Although, the duration is just 113 minutes, the absurd and odd methodology of placing camera angles and slow moments really push to the limit of patience. As the story proceeds to second hour, there are lots of sluggish moments and by the time we reach climax, Mysskin introduces us to some annoying stuffs of confronting with dead bodies, which will surely chase away the family audiences from theatres, especially the kids. The surprise of twist due to deficiency of vitamin (Revealing more than this secret will turn out to be a spoiler) is a good attempt, but the story prolonging later towards extended climax is so boring. There is a sort of artificiality over projecting certain things. We find Naga residing in a huge apartment and hardly have we seen few people there. On the par, when the surprise element and twist is opened towards climax, there is something that will ridicule the filmmaker’s lack of sensibility. If you’re a genius, you’ll discover it at the easiest means. Cinematography leaves you dizzied in many places and Mysskin has to come down from his stubbornness and change his ideas of placing cameras in odd angles.

Overall,  Pisasu holds a plot so compelling, but with the lack of momentum and too dragging sequences, especially in second half, the complete film becomes a below average fare.

Verdict : Brilliant idea, but disappointing screenplay

Stars : 2/5