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'Lisaa' is a 2019 Indian Tamil stereoscopic horror film written and directed by Raju Viswanath on his directorial debut. The film stars Anjali, Sam Jones and Makarand Deshpande. This film is India's first ever stereoscopic 3D horror film. This film is a uncredited remake from The Visit. The film opened to mixed reviews.

Plot



Lisaa (Anjali) decides to meet her grandparents and get a nod from them for her single mothers (Kalyani Natarajan) 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, Lisaas 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 (Sam Jones) go on a five-day trip to the Western Ghats to convince her grandparents.

From the beginning, Lisaa and Jaggu find that the formers 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.

Cast



* Anjali as Lisaa

* Sam Jones as Jagadeesh (Jaggu)

* Makarand Deshpande as Dhananjayan / Raghavan

* Brahmanandam as LKG, Jaggu's father

* Surekha Vani as Jaggu's mother

* Kalyani Natarajan as Lisaa's mother

* Saleema as Saradha / Nancy

* Yogi Babu as Priest

* Mime Gopi as Shankar

* Sabbita Roi

Production



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 Kodaikanal and Hyderabad. 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.

Soundtrack



The soundtrack was composed by Santhosh Dhayanidhi.

Reception



The film received mixed reviews from critics. 'Times of India' wrote "With cardboard characters and storytelling that lacks depth, even 3D doesnt save this good script." 'India Today' wrote "Anjali's Lisaa abounds with jump scares and insipid comic scenes. Debutant director Raju Viswanath has a decent premise." 'Sify' wrote "Its 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."

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