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Pisaasu (; English: Phantom) is a 2014 Indian Tamil language-language Horror film Drama film film written and directed by Mysskin and produced by Bala under B Studios. The film stars Naga and Prayaga Martin alongside Radha Ravi, Rajkumar Pitchumani, Ashvatt, Kalyani Natarajan, 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 Rakshasi and in Hindi as Nanu Ki Jaanu.
After the incident, strange things start happening at Siddharth's apartment. He begins to feel a supernatural presence at his house. The house is cleaned up even if he makes it messy and his bottle opener goes missing whenever he tries to drink beer. With the help of his friend Badri (Ashvatt), he employs a psychic to exorcise the ghost, but she turns out to be a fraud and is scared out of the apartment by a strange apparition. Siddharth also comes to realize that his next-door neighbor's autistic son plays with an imaginary friend. When Siddharth's mother Janaki (Kalyani Natarajan) comes to visit him, she is hit by a drunk neighbor (Harish Uthaman), who is abusing his wife (Kani Kusruti). The neighbor is then attacked by a mysterious ghost. The following day, Janaki meets with a freak accident in the bathroom and is saved by the ghost who alerts the neighbors. However, Siddharth mistakes that the ghost had attacked his mother and threatens the ghost that he would kill himself and come as a ghost to take revenge on her. Many rituals of various religions to drive the ghost away were performed by Siddharth, but everything is proven futile and the ghost continues to stay. Also, a petty thief is also stabbed while trying to steal from Siddharth's apartment.
Siddharth is assured that the ghost of the girl whose life he tried to save is behind all these strange occurrences and goes in search of her family to see if they can help get rid of her. He finds that girl's name is Bhavani and her father (Radha Ravi) runs a local ice factory. Siddharth confronts the father and asks him to cremate his daughter to save him from her ghost. Siddharth brings the father to his apartment to show him the ghost, when his mother calls from the hospital to tell him that it was actually the ghost who has saved her life. Bhavani's father then tries to see if the ghost is actually trying to protect Siddharth. When the ghost appears as expected, her father begs her to come home with him, but she remains at the apartment. Siddharth understands that Bhavani's spirit never meant him any harm.
Realizing that the only way Bhavani can rest in peace is by bringing her killer to face justice, Siddharth and his friends attempt to solve the mystery of her death themselves. They track down Adaikalam, who tells them that he saw a green car driving away after the accident. They then manage to track down the green car at a shady workshop. Adaikalam is revealed to have stolen an orphaned child from the hospital since he and his wife cannot have children of their own. Adaikalam's cousin, who was in the car that day, tells Siddharth that she saw the actual car that hit Bhavani that day and that it was not green but red, much like Siddharth’s own car. Siddharth then goes back to the Adaikalam and asks him to differentiate between red and green apples, which he cannot since he is colorblind.
Finally realizing that he himself is the killer, Siddharth goes to tell Bhavani's father the truth. The ghost tries to stop him, but he still does so. Over-ridden with guilt, Siddharth tries to commit suicide. Bhavani's spirit saves him by cremating her own body that her father had preserved all this time in the ice, thus moving on to the next world. Bhavani's father comforts Siddharth by saying that he is a very kindhearted person, he would have never done that intentionally, and that is why his daughter fell in love with him and stayed with him.
The team released a teaser trailer on 15 November 2014, revealing that production had been finished in fifty two days and the project had entered the post-production stage.
Deccan Chronicle gave 2.5 stars and wrote, "It may not scare you to death, but has interesting elements in it to keep you entertained. It is a different conceptualization of ghost and can be watched once for its novel experience". The Times of India gave the film 3 stars out of 5 and wrote, "the film, the second half to be specific, suffers from the same problem as Naga's Anandhapurathu Veedu. Once we realize the attitude of the ghost towards the protagonist, it takes away quite a bit of the tension. We know he will remain unharmed and so, there is nothing to dread anymore, and horror films need an element of fear to keep the viewer on the edge of the seat. But, the climax compensates for this..."
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