Lisaa

<p>Lisaa decides to meet her grandparents and get a nod from them for her single mother’s second marriage. As Lisaa is planning to leave to the US, she wants her mother to have a companion and hence, insists her to remarry. However, Lisaa’s mother says that her husband unexpectedly lost his life only because she married him without the consent of her parents. Now Lisaa, along with her friend Jagadeesh go on a five-day trip to the Western Ghats to convince her grandparents. From the beginning, Lisaa and Jaggu find that the former’s grandparents behave abnormally. They both think that their grandparents are ghosts, but actually they are psychos, and not her real grandparents. Then the psycho grandpa, starts chasing lisa, to a shed where he tries to kill her, but Sharada, who is Lisa’s real grandma, saves Lisa. Finally the police catch the psycho grandpa, who tells them that he kills children who disrespect their parents as his own son had done to him. It also turns out that the psycho grandpa was in an old age home, where the owner had been evicted, and so they travelled to lisa’s grandparents house to ask for donations, where they found the old couples dead in each others hands, and the psycho grandpa and grandma, take their place. The film was announced by debutant director Raju Viswanath and revealed that the film will be woman oriented thriller based genre starring Anjali in the main lead. The filming began during July 2018 with most of the scenes of the film were shot in and . The scenes with Brahmanandam and Surekha Vani were shot in Telugu. The film was also dubbed in Hindi. The portions of the film were cranked using Helium 8K camera with the film made using 3D technology. The soundtrack was composed by . The film received mixed reviews from critics. wrote “With cardboard characters and storytelling that lacks depth, even 3D doesn’t save this good script.” wrote “Anjali’s Lisaa abounds with jump scares and insipid comic scenes. Debutant director Raju Viswanath has a decent premise.” wrote “It’s quite evident that debutant director Raju Viswanath has touched the untold stories of the elder citizen added an emotional ending along with a supernatural angle to serve it as the typical Tamil horror thriller, which ends with a preachy social message.”</p>