After being selected for screening at the Cannes International Film
Festival and Shanghai International Film Festival, SS Rajamouli’s Telugu
revenge-drama ‘Eega’ will also be featured at the Madrid International
Film Festival and Puchon International Film Festival.
At the Madrid fest, the movie is nominated in six award categories.
“Moregood news! ‘Eega’ has been selected for few more film festivals. In
Madrid film festival, it is nominated for six awards … Puchon
International Film Festival in Korea is popular and ‘Eega’ has been
invited for screening,” Rajamouli posted on his Twitter page.
The film has been nominated for best film, best cinematographer, best
special effect, best music composer, best editor and best supporting
actor at the Madrid International Film Festival. The extravaganza is
scheduled to take place July 1-6.
The Puchon International Film Festival will start July 18-28.
Rajamouli also shared that he is “expecting few more”, and promised to keep his Twitter followers posted on it.
Directed by Rajamouli, ‘Eega’ is the story of man reborn as a housefly to avenge
his killers. It features Nani, Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Kiccha Sudeep
in the lead.
The film was highly successful in Hindi and Tamil too when released as ‘Makkhi’ and ‘Naan Ee’, respectively.