Eega
Short description
Nani is a flower decorator who falls for his neighbour Bindhu, and she returns his feelings. Their romance is interrupted by Sudeep, a wealthy and ruthless businessman who wants Bindhu for himself and will stop at nothing to get her. Sudeep kills Nani, but Nani vows revenge before dying. Rather than be reborn as a human, which would mean years of growing up while Bindhu remains in danger, he returns as a housefly with a lifespan of only seventeen days, and uses that short time to work with Bindhu against the man who murdered him. The film is a fantasy action comedy from India, released in July 2012 and running 145 minutes.
S. S. Rajamouli directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Ashwin Gangaraju. It came in his filmography between Maryada Ramanna and Bāhubali: The Beginning, the second of the three titles listed before that point in his career. Sudeep plays the antagonist, Samantha Ruth Prabhu plays Bindhu, and Nani plays the title character, with Adithya Menon, Thagubothu Ramesh and Santhanam in supporting roles. It was produced by Daggubati Suresh Babu and Sai Korrapati.
Audience response has been strong and consistent: on IMDb it holds 7.7/10 from around 30,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 7.1/10 from 267 votes. A critics' rating of 7.5/10 from 10 reviews places it close to the audience scores, suggesting broad agreement rather than a sharp divide. The budget and box office figures show a production that far exceeded its reported worldwide gross.
What's left behind the scenes
- Screenwriter Vijendra Prasad came up with the idea for the film back in the late 1990s. At that time, he was simply joking with his son S.S. Rajamouli, who later directed the film, about a fly seeking revenge on a human.
- It was incredibly difficult to convey the emotions of an insect, because almost the entire head of a fly is covered by an eye, and there are practically no muscles there. In an attempt to overcome this difficulty, S.S. Rajamouli decided to resort to body language. Nani was covered with a headpiece and instructed to demonstrate various emotions exclusively through body language. The resulting information was then passed on to the animation team, who transferred the movements to the image of the fly.
- Ten days after the start of filming, S.S. Rajamouli halted work on the project because the fly created using visual effects did not impress him at all. However, since between 4 and 8 crore (1 crore equals 10 million units, in this case, rupees) had already been spent, he decided not to stop and ordered a new fly to be made.
- Several episodes were cut from the Hindi version, and the film's duration was reduced to 120 minutes.
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