18 Facts About Eega

Eega won two National Film Awards, five South Filmfare Awards including Best Telugu Film, Best Telugu Director, Best Telugu Actress and Best Telugu Supporting Actor and three South Indian International Movie Awards.

Eega was listed among "The 25 Best Foreign Films of the Decade" by The Ringer.

Eega is in love with his neighbour Bindu, a miniature artist who runs Project 511, a non-governmental organisation.

Idea of Eega originated in the mid-1990s in screenwriter V Vijayendra Prasad mind.

Eega used GoPro cameras as they were the smallest possible ones that offered close to professional resolution.

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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.

Eega incorporated the buzzing sound made by flies into the score and exaggerated or reduced it according to a scene's emotional nature.

Eega soundtrack was released on 4 April 2012 at a promotional event at Shanti Sarovar, Brahma Kumaris' academy in Gachibowli, a suburb of Hyderabad.

On its second weekend, Eega grossed $253,334 from 42 screens in the US, bringing its ten-day total in that country to $913,046.

Indo-Asian News Service stated that Eega was the highest-grossing Telugu film of 2012, but Bangalore Mirror said it was the second-highest in box-office revenue.

Eega further wrote, "Gutsy sly and original, this is the entertainer of the season".

Kruthi Grover of The New Indian Express wrote that Eega lacks a proper structure despite having effective visual effects and editing.

Eega added that the film turns into a "silly animated movie for kids" after the fly's birth.

Eega received the Best Feature Film in Telugu and Best Special Effects awards at the 60th National Film Awards.

At the 2nd South Indian International Movie Awards, Eega received seven nominations and won three awards; Best Film, Best Cinematographer, and Best Actor in a Negative Role.

Eega is the only Telugu film to receive six nominations at the Madrid International Film Festival, and is the first Indian Best Film nominee.

Eega's performance was appreciated by other celebrities such as Nagarjuna, Mahesh Babu, and Ram Gopal Varma; Varma said he recognised Sudeep's potential after watching Eega, adding, "Many take his acting in that film for granted, with respect to his expressions when interacting with the fly, but as a director, I know how difficult it is to act when you are imagining the fly to be there".

Eega was parodied twice in Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao comedy film Sudigadu ; when a young girl asks her father to tell her a bedtime story in the opening credits, and in a scene in which the protagonist threatens to kill a female crime boss with weapons designed by Rajamouli, including the fly's needle.