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Eega's a family entertainer : Sudeep

TNN / Updated: Jan 16, 2017, 12:40 IST

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Sudeep gets animated ... but only in his interactions with a CGI fly for Eega, the actor tells TOI

His Telugu project, Eega, is not a full-fledged animation flick. And no, he��s not playing the villain in this Rajamouli-directed film.
��What the film does have, though, is an animated character. And as the name Eega suggests, that is a fly. The film explores a story involving this fly and a man. And as that man, I��m the villain in the fly��s life.That��s the only grey shade to the character,�� says Sudeep.
But the film doesn��t qualify as a children��s movie just because it is about an animated character, maintains Sudeep. ��Eega will be a family entertainer �� a film meant for the sensibilities of anyone who��s 10 years and above,�� he says.
This project, which is also being shot in Tamil, will begin only in January,�� says Sudeep, who��s kicked about his next B-town release, Rakhta Charitra 2, which unlike the first, gives him a lot of screen time.

Ask him why Kannada films aren��t aggressively marketed in other southern states the way Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films are, and the actor admits that there are no measures to curb the flow of films from other languages initially.
��But more importantly, the Kannada industry, myself included, hasn��t tried hard enough to get our films out there. Even if there��s a desire to dub our films into another language, there are costs for dubbing artistes, song lyrics and playback singers that have to be accounted for. How do we generate that money and what is the guarantee the costs can be recovered? These are issues that the industry has to look into. I will too, someday,��
he signs off.
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