Artists Performance
Nani’s
screen time is hardly 20 minutes. But his work is essential for the
story to elevate when he is reborn as Eega. He is extremely lovable and
makes a deep impact with casual looking yet intense performance. His
brilliant comedy timing is perfectly used by Rajamouli. When you pit an
Eega against a man, it is absolutely necessary to choose the right
villain to elevate the heroism of Eega. The frustration of the villain
results into the heroism of Eega. Sudeep has taken the movie to next level with his fervent expressions and violent body language. Samantha’s run of success continues as she did extremely well as a bereaved lover.
Technical departments
Story:
When you narrate this story to anybody, they will laugh at you. Since
Rajamouli has narrated the story, everybody listens. It is an extremely
difficult to allot a particular genre for this movie. There is love,
there is sentiment, there is comedy, there is fantasy, there is action
and there is the biggest commercial emotion of all - REVENGE. I liked
the way Rajamouli started off the movie with his own voice over in the
darkness behind the titles. Father narrates a revenge story of Eega to
his daughter like a chandamama katha. Incidentally, this story was
prepared by Rajamouli when he was a kid.
Screenplay - direction:
Eega doesn’t have dialogues. It has to get our sympathy and empathy at
the same time. Hence the director has to use the body language of Eega
and the other characters’ love and frustration to elevate the emotion
among the crowds. Rajamouli’s screenplay of the movie is exceptionally
good. He made sure that there is a peak point in the movie for every 10
minutes after Eega enters. The reason why heroine is shown as a micro
artist because she would be helping and arming Eega at a later point of
time. Rajamouli lets his imagination run wild when it comes to show the
techniques adapted by Eega to take the revenge on mighty villain. Using
of hexagonal mesh transparent layer for Eega point of view gives clarity
to audiences. There are several scenes I have liked and listing them
all here might affect the thrill you are going to have when you watch
it. The booby traps by Eega are hilarious. There is a marketing genius
in Rajamouli. The eega appears synthetic at the first look. But by
showing eega photo and videos continuously for the last six months, he
made sure that we are all familiarised with it by the time we watch the
movie. Sudeep’s dialogues in trailers appear abrupt and made-up, but
when you watch the same in the film - Sudeep dialogues are natural and
free-flowing. The most hilarious part of the film is the thread of
drunken thief (Thagubothu Ramesh) and how it is connected to the
post-climax scene. However, a couple of booby traps (chandelier falling)
are little complex to understand when you watch for the first time.
Rajamouli has taken Telugu cinema to national level with his concept of
Eega. In my opinion, Eega is the best film in Rajamouli’s career.
Other departments:
Keeravani’s background music pumps oxygen into the movie. There are two
complete songs in the movie. Both of them are shot superbly. First song
has beautiful love-build-up collages and the second song has terrific
eega-build-up collages. Cinematography by Senthil Kumar is
extraordinary. It takes a lot of brilliance from any cameraman to
showcase the conflict between millimeters Eega and a 6-feet villain. The
team at Makuta has done exemplary job. I have already listening to the
comments that fims like Arundhati and Maghadheera had better graphics
than Eega. That is completely a false notion. As explained by Rajamouli
in a video interview,
the graphics in earlier big films were in the background of main leads.
Here Eega is the main lead. Hence creating Eega and animating it
without looking funny is awesome. In other films, actor is in the middle
of action surrounded by graphics. In Eega, graphically made Eega is in
the middle of action surrounded by actors. Art direction by S Ravinder
is completely natural. Styling by Rama Rajamouli is good and is in sync
with the theme. Dialogues by Janardhan Maharshi complement the story.
Editing by Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao is very good. Producer Sai
Korrapati should be commended for coming forward and producing such a
risky project like Eega, which doesn’t have any reference points in
Indian film history.
Analysis:
When Rajamouli attained the peak of his popularity by delivering
Magadheera after doing consecutive hits, he didn’t go after stars. He
has taken the route a very few commercially super successful directors
would dare to. He has made a different comedy with Sunil as hero. He
went to the extreme by making a concept film Eega with a budget of 30
crores. Films like Eega differentiates a classic director from the rest.
Eega is a classic revenge story told in unimaginable proportions (few
millimeters vs six foot). There are a few dull moments and second half
should have been little trimmed. But this small dissatisfaction fade out
in front of the magnitude of efforts made by the filmmakers. On a
whole, Eega is a must watch film in theaters.
Trade aspect: I guess one need not give any trade reports for a SS Rajamouli film. Be it a star or an eega. It's obvious!
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