EEGA/MAKKHI (Telugu/Hindi) - The film proudly proves that CINEMA in South India is miles ahead than what is being made in Bollywood. (Review By Bobby Sing) (Movies To See Before You Die - Thriller)

Hi Vikas,
In my opinion brother, we still need to get over the Bollywood syndrome cause film-making is much much more bigger than just Bollywood and its Glossy film-making norms & chocolate movies.

However regarding EEGA, I would openly like to admit that if any of the Indian director chooses to try innvoation in CINEMA of this extent then I can easily forget even the biggest flaw in his movie quite blindly.....
I am all game for novel attempts, fresh ideas and innovation tried in Indian Cinema making them at par with the WORLD CINEMA and gaining more respect all over.

EEGA has a vision which was not been tried ever before by anyone in the whole Indian Film Industry in its entire recent history. Here even a ROBOT needed Rajnikanth and a RAAVAN needed a Shahrukh to sell itself. So first of all I give 100% marks to Rajamouli to even try such venture with no STAR system to support himself other than just his quality vision.

The other fact is that Bollywood could have easily afford to try it much before.............but they actually didnt because no one here really had the guts to try it as they cant really think beyond their usual safe norms of making only business projects in the name of CINEMA.

For you I would like to explain that In creative terms, Its comparitively somehow easy to think, write & make a movie about a emotionally weak character, which will be liked by all or to make a movie about social rebellion expressing thoughts against the already questionable rituals of religion..........Yes its comparitively easy to think these subjects and even interesting to make or direct films on this subject too.......as there is no big risk involved in it of an outright rejection.

BUT it really needs guts of an iron man to even decide to make this kind of movie which deserves half marks and then executing it in this manner gets more than the other half too as mentioned in my review. Plus it needs 100 times more effort to act in such a movie for all the actors responding to something which is nowhere there in existence when the shooting is on.

Moreover there is always a 200% risk of such experiment to go wrong.....a much bigger risk than a BARFI or OMG or any other HIt of this year to go wrong. Such a film can easily become an element of fun for many viewers if unaccepted.

Therefore I need no second thoughts to say that the way S. S. Rajamouli directs this, it puts him into my list of the first five talented directors of INDIA at this very moment.

For me its not even above all its flaws but above any of the film made in the recent decade of CINEMA in India depending upon animations majorly.

But more importatnly, I would like to mention that CINEMA and its reviewing is not just about pointing out flaws of anybody else's work.......The world's easiest job is to find out mistakes in somebody else's work..

This is surely a wrong kind of definition given to the word Critic in our country, in a pretty silly manner. In reality its the job of a responsible critic to appreciate every important innovation adapted in film-making around him, taking the standard of film-making in the country many steps ahead. 

S. S. Rajamouli had the guts to think out of the box and deliver too in such a manner that even the WORLD is praising the movie and its execution with no parallel to draw comparisons with.

So if you felt disappointed then honestly I felt the same reading your comment too.

For your info, even today I dont go to the theater as a critic.
I dont go to watch a movie to find its flaws...its mistakes
No that is a wrong way to do this job and if any person thinks that this is the way to review a film then he has already crushed his passion for watching CINEMA.......completely. And now he has simply lost that way of enjoying movies as an innocent kid.
No, I dont watch movies in that particular manner.

Lastly here I would also like to share my FACEBOOK Status updated a few days before after which many friends went to see the movie and called me back with THANKS filled with great energy right from the theater itself.

"Its really a strange world today....that we are very much ok with Criticism but not able to accept whole-hearted appreciation from the same person........for a particular film as if its not possible!

So here I would like to say that if a reviewer has got the courage to critcise or ridicule another person's film in his review then he also should have the passion to praise the deserving director's work so Loudly that it should be heard by every single person around to get benefited from it.

And following this "Golden Rule of Reviewing" - I would like to shout from my roof top that "Go and watch MAKKHI to surprise yourself like never before.....urgently"

In the end I would again like to say that  I am very much proud that EEGA/MAKKHI was made in India by an Indian director in such a remarkable way.
Hence it is way beyond any rating as per my understanding........In true words I dont find myself capable enough to give this daring innovation any number of stars....... because I myself never imagined any Indian director to have dared making such a movie, with such excellence at all.
 

Cheers!
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Thanks Naveen and great to know that you loved the movie too!
Cheers!
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Hi Vikas,
When you watch a film like BARFI & OMG....then you dont find flaws deliberately but they get register automatically in your mind as the film has already got something seen before and it also progresses with some clear delibrate attmepts being made to impress the viewers adding many unwanted commercial elements in it.

But when you watch a film like EEGA then...what you are seeing on the screen is a FIRST in your life time......ever happening in a theater in your own country like never before..........so that takes it much higher than any other film.....above any flaw in it as you noticed.

Secondly EEGA is a fantasy unlike BARFI or OMG, which gives it the liberty to think beyond........In fact its basic thought of a person taking birth as a fly is completely illogical and absurd.......But when you see it being executed on the screen like this you say , To hell with all the illogical flaws......I simply love this daring, gutsy attempt........which is clearly not there in any of those films.

And striclty in my opinion its a pity that our own country cannot and is not able to judge but S. S. Rajamouli has done or achieved........whereas the world in accepting his triumph made wholeheartedly.......

FYI,
Just today it is in HT CITY that the film is being praised all over and they are now dubbing it in Japanese and Swahili as demanded. 

And here is one of the response of few friends at  FB,

"Bollywood ki saari 100cr movies milkar, MAKKHI ka ek baal bhi nahi bana sakti…!

And I am not overdoing it by saying so. This is the most ‘Daring’ movie I have watched so far.
First of all Hats off to the Creative Mind (S S Rajamouli) who had such an out of the world Idea & secondly the entire team & cast who execute it in the most believable manner. This is the perfect example where ‘Idea’ is the ‘Real Star’ of the movie. 

Though I have heard a lot in last one month about this movie & hype was so high still I haven’t thought in my wild imagination that I am going to have such jaw dropping experience, spectacular graphics & spine-chilling chase sequences throughout the movie. Background music is another Hero that makes one to feel the whole fantasy tale in much more convincible way. Even two songs are very catchy. A title track & a romantic track in first half. 

My nephew (3 yr) said "bye bye Makkhi" with Big cheerful smile when we were leaving hall after watching it. He stayed awake till mid-night & enjoyed whole movie. While my sister was feeling hurt when Sudeep cut Makkhi's wing. And then there was standing ovation & clap clap clap.....

That's the magic of great vision & use of VFX most convincingly.

(This is by Himanshu Patel)

Cheers!
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Thanks Hitesh and yes Rajamouli should continue making such terrific entertaining movies.

Hi Vikas,
Taking a clue from your perspective only......
OMG can be called an extraordinary movie......due to its sensitive subject tried in the boldest manner ever in a country like India, where people are not used to it. But I cant use the same word for its execution at all. (However I could do that if only they had not included Akshay in the script as GOD which is clearly added forcibly)

Where as
EEGA / MAKKHI can be called an extraordinary movie both due to its first ever kind of path-breaking and daring exposure in the country plus having a more than exceptional execution of the subject with such a conviction......

Hence Yes both the movies can be called exceptional rightly.

But in the end Once again I wish to quote that "I strictly dont have a mindset which keeps the related movies in account while watching a new movie"
In poetic words, Friday mornings are the most Blank mornings I have with just movies to see in mind and no preset thoughts about anything related knocking from the inside.

So keep watching good movies and keep the passion alive.

Cheers!
HIS BLESSINGS

Hi Bhanu,
Thanks for your comment but unfortunately I cant understand the language.
So if possible do post the comment again in English.
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Dear Vishnu UK,
Thanks for your comment but it seems you havent read the review completely and just gave it a glance.
Because what you have mentioned is already there in the reveiw along with one more name.
So do chek it out again.

Cheers!
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