Mysskin has a knack for extracting spectacular performances out of newcomers. In Pissasu, it’s not the actors who impress so much (even though they’re quite good); it’s the debutant composer Arrol Corelli. He tugs at your heartstrings with the violins. Siddharth plays a violinist, who is part of Illayaraja’s music troupe (Mysskin’s reference to the maestro).
Mysskin achieves so much with so little in Pissasu. It gets almost everything right despite the underwhelming climax.
