Eega Movie Review - Cinegoer

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[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Story and Analysis: The anti-hero is here to stay, it is Sudeep, Sudeep again who occupies the screen and keeps you engaged right from scene one till the last when he, his house is blown to smithereens. The fly comes in minutes after Nani the hero is dead (the re-entry of Nani is shown in an almost sudden fashion and it is as if the director is waiting to bump Nani off and is raring to bring in the fly).

In the first part of [url="http://www.cinegoer.com/telugu-cinema/gallery/movies/eega5/"]Eega[/url] and even a bit later you keep wondering why the girl is so unaffected by Nani's death, taking time to react and even is not bothered to know how he died or what could have caused his sudden disappearance that moment. She feeling low, weeping is all right but the way she goes about her life as she has come to terms with reality is awkward. Ditto with Nani's friend.

Now the fly squats in front of Bindu (Samantha) and narrates the story and does it amazingly. In that unforgettable scene the fly narrates through its legs how it has been killed, who killed it and what made Nani return as a fly, one doesn't see if it is an insect or a human being..what is for display is just an expression, an emotion. You connect with it in such a simple manner through Bindu's magnifying glass.

The next and final scene that moves you is when Sudeep slices the fly's wing and as it falls down helplessly, you feel your hand has been dismembered and nod your head in disbelief, though you very well knew the story from its inception that it is the assassin fly's victory over his enemy. That is where the graphics and computing scores when an inanimate object is given life and is made to emote and move the audiences.

The rest of the story is humour and humour alone and you wouldn't be entertained but for Sudeep, his irritating, perplexing, dazed, angry, frustrating and heightened obsessive and consistent behaviour is a treat to watch and forces a smile on a most serious looking person. The torture that the fly inflicts on the killer is so much that he has security guards holding insect bats instead of guns when he arrives for a meeting.

The people behind the creation of the fly dished out near possible realism with their eye for emotional nuance for audiences and Rajamouli through his story board and detailing had succeeded in offering the producers an easily acceptable form of a graphical fly that has been grafted as a hero along with Sudeep to pull off box-office openings.

Sudeep is a womaniser, has an eye for Bindu and cannot tolerate Bindu's attention for Nani and thus kills the latter. He is born again as a fly and this fly generates a buzz but that buzz transforms into an ammunition that kills the villain. As the narrative soars post-break with the small thrills and victory of the fly, the finale makes one sigh as mentioned above.

Music is good and dialogues are few as it is more of a visual narration, just about right. Effective cinematography, a fresh appearance in the form of Hamsa Nandini, Devadarshini, Aditya Menon all of them have been roped in keeping the different languages in mind.

Samantha has nothing much to do but is okay within her space, Nani looks different yet good and what can one say about his work too when he disappears even before you wink? Though it's victory of the small over the big, what remains in your memory after the film winds up is Sudeep alone.

[size=5][b]Bottomline: [/b]Those who have watched many English films with animation characters doing super heroic roles, they will find Eega just a fine ordinary product, nothing outstanding but good enough to qualify a one-time watch, in other words it is kids stuff. They will like the fantasy of the fly coming back to life after completion of its job. A pat for the director for his macro effort on a micro object.[/size][/font]

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