Pisasu a Mysskin Disappointment

A zoom out shot insetting in its rectangular frame a young girl's dreamy visage with opened eyes and a lock soaked in blood suggesting head injury opens Pisasu. A shot very similar to the one in Onaiyum Aatukutiyum with the contrast of day light and zoom out but with bird's eye view credits the pattern that Mysskin uses to begin his narration. The indispensible autorickshaw, the Chennai streets, sub ways, apartment houses barge in to trumpet the style of Mysskin, that of late have canonised themselves with the crowning of "stereotypes". There is this trademark judo, karate and other defensive martial arts-pulped stunt sequence to hallmark the presence of the distinctiveness of the narrator-director. With all this paraphrenalia the director jumps onto the wagon to embark on a hair raising, spine chilling ghost adventure. Alas, the wagon swerves off of logic oil slick and dives into an abyss to pull itself over. Visually narrative scenes of the beginning shroud themselves of coyness and allow them to be usurped by blaring, vociferous vocal cannons of dialogues. The tempo of narration gets a limping support from scampering camera angles which only add woes to screenplay mobility. The one eyed hero, the other eye being covered by his falling hair, resmbling a cyclop, has also been caught up along with the 'sutra-dhari' in the muddled up situation of battling with logic. The detective faculty of the cyclop hero goes blunt when he is rescued from the thugs that come to rob money of the blind musician alms seekers whereas it sharpens to make him receive the dawning knowledge of the auto rickshaw driver's colour-blindness. The cyclop hero's mother and his neighbour never make ruckus of the beating of the malechavunist husband who invites the wrath of the pisasu by being cruel to the hero's mother. Logic helps with the end but not with the selection of the protaginist's domicile for the pisasu's shelter.

Morals of the story: Girls take only a split second to choose their lover and also to fall in love and are avowed to follow that lover even after death. Spirits especially those of young spinsters take refuge in the houses of their lovers and act as protective godmothers of the lover's family. Nothing could drive those young spinster spirits away from their places of stay, which is possible only when they choose to vacate. One can exterminate a spirit's existence by burning its body along with it. Spirits of young spinsters even pardon their murderers if the murder or killing is an accident and not planned and is committed by beaux. It is quite a disappointment for Mysskin lovers.