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Eecha (Template:Lang-en) is a 2012 Malayalam romantic fantasy fictional film written and directed by S S Rajamouli. It stars Sudeep, Samantha and Nani in lead roles. M. M. Keeravani composed the film's music while K. K. Senthil Kumar and Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao helmed cinematography and editing respectively. It was simultaneously shot in Telugu as Eega and Tamil Naan Ee as with the same cast. The film with 2,234 VFX shots, ultimately, received positive reviews in all the versions, and was declared a blockbuster.

The film was screened to critical acclaim at L'Étrange Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival. The film was subsequently dubbed into Hindi as Makkhi. The Tamil version Naan Ee of this film was screened at the 10th Chennai International Film Festival. As of December 2012, the film has been reported to be dubbed in Thai.

Plot

Nani (Nani) is a young man who makes fireworks. He lives in a house opposite Bindu (Samantha), a micro artist who runs Project 511, an NGO. Nani is in love with Bindu for two years and has been constantly showing his love for Bindu. Bindu too loves Nani back but plays hard to get and hides her love from him.

Sudeep (Sudeep) is a multi-millionaire industrialist who also happens to be a womaniser. He had even killed his wife for her money. One day, Bindu goes to Sudeep's office to see if he would like to donate money to her NGO. Sudeep is about to send her away, until he sees Bindu through the opening of his office door. He immediately lusts for her, and calls her into his office. Bindu, not knowing of Sudeep's true intentions, tells him all about her NGO and Sudeep donates ₹15 lakhs to it. Bindu thanks Sudeep, who asks her out to lunch.

At the restaurant, Bindu sees Nani and his friends installing fireworks across the street. Sudeep notices that Bindu keeps staring at Nani and becomes jealous. Later, when Sudeep and Bindu stop at a market, Nani also comes and walks with Bindu. Sudeep follows them the whole time. That night, Bindu works late and she needs an escort to go home, so she calls Nani who comes to her office and walks her home. At this point, Nani gives Bindu an idea to help finish a necklace she was working on and Bindu is finally ready to confess her love towards Nani. But just in front of Bindu's doorstep, and just after dropping her home, Sudeep kidnaps Nani and takes him to a graveyard, where he beats him mercilessly. He tells Nani that he loves Bindu. Nani tells Sudeep that if he goes anywhere near Bindu, he will kill him. At this, Sudeep strangles Nani to death, right after Bindu tells Nani she loves him through a text and a phone call. Upon hearing that Bindu loves him, Nani dies. He is then reborn as a fly.

After getting used to his new life as a fly, and experimenting with his new abilities, Nani ends up in Sudeep's office. After he sees Sudeep, Nani remembers his past life and wants to take revenge on Sudeep for what he has done. He keeps following Sudeep around, irritating him to the core. Meanwhile, Bindu is grieving the death of Nani, and Sudeep is still trying to make Bindu love him.

One day, Sudeep calls Bindu to his office and asks her to come to Delhi with him to meet the Education Minister, who plans to nationally recognise Bindu's NGO. Bindu agrees. Nani notices this and causes Sudeep to meet with an accident while he is driving to the airport. Sudeep, lying injured in his wrecked car, sees Nani write the words "I will kill you". From that point, Sudeep starts fearing Nani the fly, becomes paranoid about it and tries all means to ensure Nani does not enter his house.

Later, Nani arrives at Bindu's house, who is still thinking about him. Nani uses Bindu's tears on her desk to write out the words, "I am Nani". He then shows Bindu that it was Sudeep who killed him, and that he was reborn as a fly. Bindu realises Sudeep's true nature and teams up with Nani the fly, using her skills as a micro artist to make Sudeep's life a living hell. Bindu discreetly allows Nani to enter Sudeep's house, and Nani wreaks havoc on him, including burning all of his wealth. A terrified Sudeep then consults Tantra, a sorcerer, who tells him that Nani, whom he had killed, was reborn as a fly and is planning to kill him. Tantra performs a 'homa' in Sudeep's house to kill Nani. But Nani escapes and causes a short circuit, leaving Tantra dead and Sudeep unconscious.

Next morning, Sudeep regains consciousness and finds out that Bindu and Nani are working together to kill him by seeing a CCTV video in which Bindu allowed Nani into his house. Enraged, Sudeep brings Bindu to his house and starts abusing her. He also clips Nani's wings and stabs it with a needle. A dying Nani then sacrifices its life by jumping through a lighted matchstick, inflaming itself and entering a loaded cannon, which fires up and kills Sudeep.

Bindu, grieving the fly's death, makes a necklace using the only remainder of Nani the fly- its wing. While going to work, an eve-teaser abuses her, only for a fly to attack him. This fly is none other than Nani, reborn again as a fly, to protect his love Bindu forever.

Release

The film was initially planned to be released in May 2012 but was delayed due to extensive CGI and VFX work. Release of the film was postponed again from June 22, 2012 to 6 July as the unit was reportedly striving hard for the quality of CG. The film was censored on June 26, 2012 and received an U/A rating by the Central Board of Film Certification for few smoking scenes which is considered integral to story. Eecha, along with its Telugu version Eega and Tamil dub Naan Ee was released on 6 July 2012. Distribution rights were sold for ₹ 34 crores. Eecha was released in Hindi as "Makkhi" on October 12, 2012.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of the film was composed by M. M. Keeravani. The audio was released on March 30, 2012. It was released through Vel Records, owned by M. M. Keeravani. Lyrics of the songs in the film were written by Mankompu Gopalakrishnan.

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• 2012 films
• Indian fantasy films
• Malayalam cinema
• Films about insects