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Pisaasu
''Pisaasu'' (; English: ''Phantom'') is a 2014 Indian Tamil-language Gothic horror film film written and directed by Mysskin and produced by Bala under B Studios. The film stars Naga, Rajkumar Pitchumani, Ashvatt alongside Radharavi, Kalyani Natarajan, Prayaga Martin and Harish Uthaman. The film released on 19 December 2014 to highly positive reviews. The Telugu dubbed version titled ''Pisachi'' released on 27 February 2015. The film was remade in Kannada as ''Raakshasi'' and in Hindi as ''Nanu Ki Jaanu''. Plot Siddharth Soundaarajan (Naga) is an upcoming violinist in Chennai, who stumbles upon an accident where a girl (Prayaga) is lying in a pool of blood. He rushes her to the hospital with the help of an auto driver and a couple. However, he is too late and the girl passes away holding his hand. Traumatized by the whole episode, Siddharth comes home with one of her slippers. He then drives around the city aimlessly with his red car while helping homeless people, unable to co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrol Corelli
Arrol Corelli is an Indian music composer. He made his debut in the Tamil film ''Pisaasu'' (2014) directed by Mysskin and produced by director Bala's B Studios. Early life and career Arrol Corelli was born and brought up in Maraimalainagar near Chennai in a middle-class family. He started learning Indian classical violin at the age of five under Shri. Ravi Kumar and later on under Kumari A. Kanyakumari. At a very young age, he started performing in various concerts across south India, winning prizes in competitions held at The Music Academy, Narada Gana Sabha and Mylapore Fine Arts etc. He started learning Western classical piano at the age of ten from the Trinity College of Music, London. He did his schooling at Shri Anand Jain Vidhyala, Tambaram and became a qualified Chartered Accountant in the year 2008. He approached film director Mysskin who hired him to score the music for ''Pisaasu'' produced by director Bala. As Arul is not an uncommon name, Mysskin also suggested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mysskin
Shanmugha Raja, known professionally as Mysskin, is an Tamil film director, screenwriter, actor, singer, and producer. He made his directorial debut in 2006 with ''Chithiram Pesuthadi''. His subsequent films ''Anjathe'' (2008), ''Nandalala'' (2010) and ''Onaayum Aattukkuttiyum'' (2013) and Pisaasu (2014) received critical acclaim. He made his acting debut with ''Nandalala'' (2010), where he portrayed a mentally disabled man. Career He chose Mysskin as his assumed name, inspired by Prince Myshkin, the protagonist in Dostoevsky's novel ''The Idiot''. His schooling was in Tamil and he is an avid book reader He was working in a book store when director Kathir first asked him to join him. He was with him for nearly 8 months but did not work in any movie. It was under director Vincent Selva that he did his first movie ''Youth'', followed by ''Jithan'', again under Vincent Selva. Mysskin made his directorial debut with the low – budget film '' Chithiram Pesudhadi'' which went on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalyani Natarajan
Kalyani Natarajan is an Indian actress who has appeared in Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi-language films. She played prominent roles in ''Saivam'' (2014), ''Pisaasu'' (2014) and ''Mahanubhavudu'' (2017). Career Kalyani had an interest in theatre and acted in plays in Mumbai. While in Mumbai, she was part of several major drama troupes. Later, she began acting in commercials including a jewellery commercial with Trisha. Her stage plays in Mumbai enabled her to get a role in '' Settai'' (2013), which was shot in Mumbai. In the same year, she played Imran Khan's sister-in-law in Dharma Productions' ''Gori Tere Pyaar Mein'' (2013). She was also cast as Sathyaraj's wife in A. L. Vijay's ''Thalaivaa'' (2013). However, she left the latter film. She collaborated again with director A. L. Vijay for ''Saivam'' (2014), which was her first major break. Kalyani had shot for 38 days in Karaikudi for the film. While she was in Chennai during the release of ''Saivam'', she met director Mysskin and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanu Ki Jaanu
''Nanu Ki Jaanu'' () is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language horror comedy film directed by Faraz Haider, starring Abhay Deol and Patralekha. The first look poster was launched on 23 March 2018 followed by its theatrical trailer on 26 March 2018. ''Nanu Ki Jaanu'' was released on 20 April 2018. The movie is a remake of 2014 Tamil movie ''Pisaasu''. Plot Anand is a land mafia agent in Delhi, who with his gang of 4 others scares property owners and acquires their apartments illegally. While on his way to make another deal, he stops to see an accident, and a girl Siddhi lying on road with a pool of blood. Nanu sees her alive and rushes her to the hospital, but she dies. Nanu get very disturbed as he saw her dying in front of him. He is not able to concentrate on anything or is able to make more deals. He is made fun by his friends for his weird behavior. Siddhi becomes a ghost and stays in Anand's apartment. It is shown that Siddhi's father stores her corpse in a freezer as he loved her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prayaga Martin
Prayaga Rose Martin (born 18 May 1995) is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema. In 2012, she made her cinematic debut in the Malayalam film, Ustad Hotel. Career Director Mysskin cast Prayaga Martin for her first lead role in Pissasu. In 2016, Prayaga played her second lead role as Parvathy in the movie, Oru Murai Vanthu Parthaya, opposite Unni Mukundan. The film was well received by Malayalam moviegoers. In the same year, she replaced Madonna Sebastian in Siddhique's ''Fukri''. She also played the female lead, alongside Dileep and Radhika Sarathkumar, in the political thriller ''Ramaleela''. She made her debut in Kannada in a Ganesh starrer, Geetha. She has acted as judge of several TV shows like Midukki ''Midukki'' was a 2013-2013 Indian cinema, Indian reality television series in a beauty pageant style which was aired on the Mazhavil Manorama channel. The first season of the show was hosted by Malayalam cinema, Mollywood actress Rima Kallinga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinodhini Vaidyanathan
Vinodhini Vaidyanathan is an Indian actress and writer who has mainly worked in Tamil cinema and theatre. She made her debut in A. R. Murugadoss's ''Engaeyum Eppothum'' portraying Ananya's sister. She is best known for her performances in OK Kanmani (2015), ''Appa'' (2016), '' Aandavan Kattalai'' (2016), Ratsasan (2018), Comali (2019), '' Game Over'' (2019), '' Ponmagal Vandhal'' (2020) and ''Soorarai Pottru'' (2020). Career Vinodhini made her first film appearance in Priyadarshan's ''Kanchivaram'' (2009), after being selected by the director to be a part of the film after he watched her during a performance with the Tamil theatre troupe, Koothu-P-Pattarai. The film won critical acclaim and recognition at the National Film Awards. In early 2010, director Saravanan had watched Vinodhini's solo performance titled ''Saami Aattam'', in which Vinodhini played multiple characters in a 45-minute monologue, and was impressed enough to cast her in his first Tamil film, ''Engeyum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kani Kusruti
Kani Kusruti (born 12 September 1985) is an Indian actress and model. She first gained recognition in 2009 with the film ''Kerala Cafe'', where her performance was critically acclaimed. Kani won the Best Actress at Kerala State Film Awards in 2020 and the BRICS Best Actress Award at the Moscow International Film Festival for her performance as Khadeeja in the film ''Biriyaani''. Early life Kani was born in Cheruvakkal, a small village in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, to social activist and rationalist parents Jayasree A. K. and Maitreya Maitreyan. Her parents had dropped their last names to erase the social hierarchy marker that comes with last names in India. At 15, she invented her last name "Kusruti" (meaning "mischievous" in Malayalam) to fill in a requirement in her class 10th exam application. She grew up in Thiruvananthapuram, where she got introduced to the Abhinaya Theatre Research Centre, "a common platform for theatre practitioners". She later moved to Thrissur, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamna Kasim
Shamna Kasim better known by the stage name Poorna, is an Indian actress, dancer and model who appears in Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil films. She made her acting debut in the 2004 '' Manju Poloru Penkutty''. Early life Shamna Kasim completed her Bachelor of Arts in English by correspondence. She resides in Kochi, Kerala. Career In the mid-2010s, Kasim appeared in a series of films where she portrayed a ghost, with ''The Hindu'' labelling her as "the ghost queen of Telugu films".Search for variety: Poorna The Hindu (21 November 2015). Retrieved 30 December 2015. She appeared in '' Avunu'' (2012) and the sequel '' |
Andrea Jeremiah
Andrea Maria Jeremiah is an Indian actress, playback singer, and a musician, who works predominantly in Tamil language, Tamil and Malayalam language films. She made her acting debut in Tamil language, Tamil film ''Pachaikili Muthucharam'' (2007), and Malayalam debut with ''Annayum Rasoolum'' (2013). She has appeared in many commercially successful films like ''Annayum Rasoolum'' (2013), ''Vishwaroopam'' (2013), ''Tadakha'' (2013), ''Endrendrum Punnagai'' (2013), ''Aranmanai'' (2014), ''Loham'' (2015), ''Thoppil Joppan, Thoppil Jopaan'' (2016), ''Taramani (film), Taramani'' (2017), ''Aval (2017 film), Aval'' (2017), ''Vada Chennai'' (2018) and ''Aranmanai 3'' (2021). Early life Andrea Jeremiah was born in an Anglo-Indian family at Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu on 21 December 1985. Andrea's father is a lawyer at the Madras High Court. She has one younger sister who lives and works at Leuven, Belgium as a research assistant. Jeremiah was raised near Chennai and went to National Public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B Studios
B Studios is an Indian film production and distribution company headed by Bala. In the recent past, B Studios has financed several of Bala's directorial ventures, and other films by filmmakers including Mysskin and Sarkunam. History In September 2004, director Bala revealed that he had launched his own production house, B Studios, to "give opportunity for new talent". He announced his intentions of producing two films a year and also venturing into ad films. Subsequently, the first venture was ''Maayavi'' (2005) directed by Singampuli, a comedy film starring Suriya and Jyothika in the lead roles. As a result of their association in ''Naan Kadavul'' in late 2005, B Studios agreed to produce Ajith Kumar's ''Paramasivan'' (2006), but later opted out. B Studios were also briefly involved with the production of Vishnuvardhan's ''Sarvam'' (2009) during June 2006, when the film was announced with Suriya and Ileana D'Cruz in the lead roles. Initially planned as a co-production with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Thenandal Films
Thenandal Studios Limited (TSL), formerly known as Sri Thenandal Films and Sri Thenandal Pictures, is an Indian film production and distribution studio in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was founded by director Rama Narayanan. History Rama Narayanan set up Sri Thenandal Films in 1976 in Chennai, and the studio has gone on to distribute over 750 films across India. Sri Thenandal Films is one of the few producers in Tamil cinema to survive beyond 100 productions along with AVM, Modern Theatres, Gemini Studios, etc. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Sri Thenandal Films produced and distributed a series of devotional films directed by Rama Narayanan. The quick spate of releases titled after goddesses such as ''Palayathu Amman'' (2000), ''Nageswari'' (2001), ''Kottai Mariamman'' (2001) and ''Annai Kaligambal'' (2003), saw the studio garner an image of focussing solely on Hindu devotional subjects. In the 2010s, Murali Ramaswamy made a decision to actively purchase and distribute horror ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bala (director)
Balasubramanian known as Bala is an Tamil film director, screenwriter, and producer, working in Tamil cinema. Bala has been praised for "revolutionizing Tamil cinema" through his realistic, dark and disturbing depiction of the working class on celluloid screen. Shaji N. Karun, who headed the jury of the 56th National Film Awards, said, "Bala is unique in many ways. The way he changed Tamil cinema's character was commendable ... There were many who tried for a change. Among the new generation of filmmakers, Bala leads the pack in bringing a change in Tamil cinema's outlook and approach." Film career Bala was introduced by lyricist Arivumathi to director Balu Mahendra. Initially he was working as a production assistant in Balu Mahendra movie. Later Bala turned to work with him as assistant director in his movies. Bala made his directorial debut with '' Sethu'' in 1999, that gave a break to Vikram, the film's lead actor, who was also struggling in the Tamil film industry for alm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |