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Not to be confused with Eegah.
Mega
Theatrical release poster featuring a fly escaping a bullet.
Theatrical release poster in Telugu
Directed byS. S. Rajamouli
Written byS. S. Rajamouli
Dialogue by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyK. K. Senthil Kumar
Edited byKotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Music byM. M. Keeravani
Distributed by
134 minutes[1]
CountryIndia
Languages
Budget₹30–40 crore ($6–7 million)[a]
Box officeest. ₹125–130 crore ($23–24 million)[b]

Eega (transl. The Fly) is a 2012 Indian Telugu-language fantasy action film written and directed by S. S. Rajamouli. The film was produced by Sai Korrapati's Vaaraahi Chalana Chitram with an estimated budget of ₹30–40 crore (US$6–7 million).[c][d] It was simultaneously filmed in the Tamil language with the title Naan Ee (transl. I, the Fly). The film stars Sudeepa, Nani, and Samantha. M. M. Keeravani composed the songs and the background score while K. K. Senthil Kumar was the director of photography. Janardhana Maharshi and Crazy Mohan wrote the dialogue for the Telugu and Tamil versions, respectively.

The film's narrative is in the form of a bedtime story told by a father to his daughter. Its protagonist Nani, who is in love with his neighbor Bindu, is murdered by a wealthy industrialist named Sudeep, who is attracted to Bindu and considers Nani a rival. Nani reincarnates as a housefly and tries to avenge his death and protect Bindu from an obsessive Sudeep.

The idea for the film originated in the mid-1990s from a conversation in which Rajamouli's father and screenwriter V. Vijayendra Prasad joked with Rajamouli about the idea of a fly seeking revenge against a human. Rajamouli reconsidered the idea after finishing Maryada Ramanna (2010), and developed it into a script. The film's production began on 7 December 2010 at Ramanaidu Studios in Hyderabad. Principal photography began on 22 February 2011 and continued until late February 2012. Makuta VFX and Annapurna Studios oversaw Eega's visual effects and digital intermediate process, respectively.

The two versions of the film, alongside a Malayalam-dubbed version titled Eecha, were released on 6 July 2012 in approximately 1,100 screens globally. The performances of the cast, Rajamouli's direction, and visual effects received critical acclaim upon release. Eega was one of the highest-grossing Telugu films of the year, earning more than ₹125 crores ($23 million).[d] Eega won two National Film Awards (Best Feature Film in Telugu and Best Special Effects), five South Filmfare Awards including Best Telugu Film, Best Telugu Director, Best Telugu Actress (Samantha), and Best Telugu Supporting Actor (Sudeep) and three South Indian International Movie Awards. The film won nine awards, including Most Original Film at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. Eega was listed among "The 25 Best Foreign Films of the Decade" by The Ringer.

Plot[edit]

A young girl who is unable to sleep asks her father to tell her a bedtime story. Although reluctant at first, he tells her a story of a fly named Nani.

Nani is a young man based in Hyderabad who specializes in preparing fireworks. He is in love with his neighbor Bindu, a miniature artist who runs Project 511, a non-governmental organization (NGO). Bindu also develops romantic feelings for Nani though she does not express them. Seeking to raise money for her NGO, Bindu visits the office of a rich and powerful industrialist named Sudeep, who also finds her attractive. He befriends her, donates ₹15 lahks (US$28,000),[d] and gains her trust. Sudeep sees Nani as a rival and plans to kill him. One night, Nani inspires Bindu to help her finish a piece of micro art—a heart locket made from a pencil. While returning home, Sudeep kidnaps and strangles Nani to death, making his death look like an accident. Before dying, Nani curses Sudeep, swearing to kill Sudeep if he tries to hurt Bindu. Unaware of the incident, Bindu confesses her love for the dying Nani by phone; it is the last thing Nani hears before he is reincarnated as a housefly that cannot remember his previous life.

The fly's memory is triggered when it encounters Sudeep and Bindu and begins to devote itself to exacting revenge on Sudeep. Sudeep asks the heartbroken Bindu to accompany him to New Delhi to meet the education minister; if she can impress the minister with a presentation about the NGO, he might help it gain national recognition. The fly causes Sudeep to have an accident on his way to the airport and writes "I will kill you" on the windshield; this makes Sudeep paranoid. The fly, who sees Bindu mourning Nani's death in her bedroom, reveals itself to be Nani by writing on the desk with her tears. It conveys the circumstances of Nani's death to Bindu, and they join forces against Sudeep. The latter's obsession with the fly affects his professional and personal life. In a chain of events, his money is burnt to ashes, leaving him almost penniless.[e]

Sudeep learns from a sorcerer named Tantra that Nani is reincarnated as a fly and seeks revenge. Sudeep arranges to kill Nani at his home, but the fly escapes after causing a short circuit and a fire, which locks up the room. Tantra is killed in an accident and Sudeep is left unconscious from the smoke. Nani and Bindu assume Sudeep is dead, but he is saved by his business partner Adithya. Sudeep is enraged when he learns that Bindu is helping the fly. Sudeep kills Adithya to collect a ₹700 crore (US$130 million)[d] insurance policy, as well as to prevent his investors from taking action against his company.

Sudeep takes Bindu to his home to interrogate her, and Nani follows them. Bindu, after attempting to stab Sudeep with a razor blade, has her life threatened as Sudeep demands Nani to appear. During the encounter, however, Nani seriously injures Sudeep with a needle. After an intense fight, the latter clips Nani's wing before fatally stabbing him with the same needle. Knowing that he is dying, in a last-ditch attempt to destroy Sudeep, Nani coats himself with gunpowder and jumps through the flame of a burning match and into a previously loaded cannon. The projectile passes through Sudeep and hits an oxygen cylinder, causing a fierce explosion in which Sudeep dies and his entire house burns down. A grieving Bindu (who hid from the inferno unscathed), pines for Nani and takes his wing, and makes an amulet with it. One day when traveling to work, an eve teaser bothers her; Nani, again reborn as a fly, attacks him with a needle before announcing his return.

The young girl is impressed with the story of the fly her father narrates. During the credits, her father recounts the fate of a drunken thief who broke into Bindu's house earlier in the story, and who ultimately turns his life around after overhearing a loving speech given to Nani by Bindu and mistakenly believing that Bindu was speaking to him.

Cast[edit]

Production[edit]

Origin, scripting, and casting[edit]

I heard the story [of Eega] 16 years ago from my father about a fly who comes back to take revenge. At that time, I wasn't even an assistant director. When I started making films, I stuck to formula films for a while which did well at the box office. After a while, I was getting too comfortable with what I was doing, so I wanted to experiment with something completely different. I wanted to take the audience by surprise and that is when I went back to the story I had heard 16 years ago.

 — Rajamouli in October 2012 on the origin of the film.[10]

The idea of Eega originated in the mid-1990s in screenwriter V. Vijayendra Prasad's mind. At that time, he was joking about a housefly seeking revenge on a human in a conversation with his son S. S. Rajamouli.[11] Prasad later developed the idea as a script for an English-language film set in 1830s America, in which an African-American boy dies in an attempt to free his family from slavery and is reincarnated as a fly.[12] After completing Maryada Ramanna (2010), Rajamouli reconsidered the concept after thinking of directing a film that was distinct from any other.[13] He decided to make Eega a bilingual film in Telugu and Tamil – each scene including speech was filmed twice, once for each language.[14] The Tamil version, titled Naan Ee, was Rajamouli's directorial debut in Tamil cinema.[15] The film was presented by D. Suresh Babu of Suresh Productions.[16][f]

For the first time in his career, Rajamouli began casting after the script was completed because he felt the story required actors who were suitable for the roles.[14] Nani, the protagonist, was the first of the three of the main cast members to be chosen;[4] he completed filming his scenes in 25 days.[18][g] Samantha, the second actor cast,[4] was signed as the female lead.[19] Rajamouli chose Sudeepa to play the fly's human adversary after being impressed with the actor's performance in Rann (2010),[14] and cast rapper Noel Sean as Nani's friend in the film.[20] Sudeepa drew inspiration for his role as the villain from the 1983 Kannada film Bhakta Prahlada;[21][22] he was portraying a character he considered to be a "bad guy" with "grey shades" rather than an antagonist.[22]

The script was doctored by Rajamouli's cousin, S. S. Kanchi,[23] while Janardhan Maharshi and Crazy Mohan wrote the dialogue for the Telugu and Tamil versions respectively, marking their first collaboration with Rajamouli.[24][25] James Fowlds was initially chosen as the film's director of photography,[26] but was replaced by K. K. Senthil Kumar due to creative differences and scheduling conflicts.[27] M. M. Keeravani composed the film's soundtrack and score,[28][h] Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao edited the film,[30] Ravinder Reddy was its art director,[31] and Rajamouli's wife Rama worked on the costume design.[32]

Production of the film began with a formal launch ceremony on 7 December 2010 in Hyderabad.[33] The original version was filmed over a six-month period and cost nearly ₹11 crore; Rajamouli felt the quality of the material was poor and started again.[14][i] The film's final budget was estimated at between ₹30 and ₹40 crore.[a][d]

Filming and post-production[edit]

Sudeepa and Nani sit in chairs and listen to Rajamouli.
Sudeepa (left), Nani (middle), and Rajamouli during filming

Principal photography began on 22 February 2011 in Hyderabad;[34] ninety percent of the film was shot at Ramanaidu Studios in the city.[35] A sequence was filmed at Sri Sita Ramachandra Swamy Temple in Ammapally near Shamshabad, in early March 2011.[36] Scenes with Nani, Samantha, and Sudeepa were filmed during the first shooting schedule, which was completed on 16 March.[37] The shooting was disrupted in April by an ongoing labor dispute between film workers and producers. Rajamouli considered moving Eega out of Hyderabad if the strike continued.[38] Filming continued in Kokapet in early September 2011,[39] and principal photography was completed in late February 2012 as post-production began.[40]

According to Rajamouli, the film unit consulted a 3D video of the storyboard before shooting a scene each day. After the filming of each scene was completed, the editing and re-recording procedures were done with simple greyscale animation.[11] An Arri Alexa camera, a prime lens, and Scorpio and Strada cranes were used for the principal photography, while a probe lens and high-intensity lighting were used for the macro photography.[27] Senthil Kumar had to use a special lens with a minimum f-stop of f8.0; the wide apertures required high-intensity lighting to get acceptable shots.[41] He used GoPro cameras as they were the smallest possible ones that offered close to professional resolution. Phantom Cam was used to filming extreme slow-motion sequences; certain scenes were shot at 2,000 frames per second.[27]

Digital intermediate (DI) was conducted at Annapurna Studios in Hyderabad.[27] A high-end DI system was imported and the process took six months to complete.[42] Singer Chinmayi, who dubbed for Samantha in Eega, found the process difficult because the footage did not contain the animated fly.[43] Rajamouli approached Anuj Gurwara to write the dialogue for the Hindi-dubbed version titled Makkhi. The Hindi dubbing began in Hyderabad, and Gurwara was dubbed for Nani in the film.[44] Ajay Devgan and his wife Kajol, acting as parents telling the film's story to their child at bedtime, provided voiceovers during the opening credits of Makkhi.[45] The visuals accompanying the closing credits were altered to show the fly mimicking the antics of Devgan, Salman Khan, and Akshay Kumar.[46]

Visual effects[edit]

Rajamouli explaining a sequence to Draper
Rajamouli and Draper on the set

R. C. Kamalakannan and Pete Draper of Makuta VFX oversaw Eega's visual effects,[47][48] and Rahul Venugopal was the film's set supervisor and matte painter.[49] V. Srinivas Mohan, who later collaborated with Rajamouli on Baahubali: The Beginning, worked on a short sequence for the film.[50] Rajamouli planned to complete work on the fly imagery in four months, but it took fourteen.[35]

Ninety percent of the animation-related work was done in Hyderabad; the remaining ten percent was completed in the United States.[51] In an Indo-Asian News Service interview, Draper said he collaborated with thirteen experts and a large team of animators to design the fly.[52] Because the film's fly's eyes comprise 80 percent of its face, Rajamouli felt they could make it expressive; he used the 1986 Pixar American short film Luxo Jr. for inspiration. The output of the first team of animators, using the reference material prepared, was unsatisfactory, and Rajamouli reworked the fly's detailing.[13] Using a powerful lens, the film team conducted an arduous photographic shoot of unconscious flies in a bottle stored in a refrigerator. After enlarging the details, Rajamouli made cosmetic changes to the fly's face to make it look appealing onscreen.[51] A new team, including Draper, three concept artists, three modelers, two shader designers, two hair and fur designers, three riggers, and several animators, designed the animated fly in two months.[13][52] Its head and fur were designed after shaping its body and wings. The fly was refined daily using clay models to expedite the process.[52] The animators found the sequences between Sudeepa and the fly much more difficult to execute because the latter had to express emotions only through its slender arms rather than its face.[35]

Some of the special effects could not be designed in India, so Makuta VFX engaged animation consultants in Armenia, China, Iran, Israel, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The company's 30-member team underwent a training program on acting theory and insect formats.[35] Eega is the first Indian film to use computer-generated imagery for nearly 90 minutes of its length; the film had 2,234 live-action animation shots. By mid-June 2012, Rajamouli had approved 1,970 shots; the final version was shown to the film unit after the approval of 226 pending shots.[53] The visual effects cost an estimated ₹7 crore.[54]

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