After Cannes, Eega now at Shanghai International Film Festival
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After
Cannes,
SS
Rajamouli's
highly
successful
Telugu
revenge-drama
Eega
has
been
selected
to
feature
in
the
panorama
section
of
upcoming
16th
Shanghai
International
Film
Festival.
The
festival
will
start
June
15
and
end
on
June
23.
Confirming
the
same,
film's
director
SS
Rajamouli
posted
on
his
Twitter
page,
"We
got
the
official
confirmation
this
morning.
Eega
has
been
selected
in
the
panorama
section
of
Shanghai
International
Film
Festival."
Rajamouli
feels
these
are
baby
steps
to
venture
into
new
markets.
"These
are
small
steps
into
venturing
into
newer
markets.
Hoping
to
make
some
breakthroughs,
however
small
they
might
be," he
further
said.
Eega
featuring
Nani,
Kiccha
Sudeep
and
Samantha
Ruth
Prabhu,
is
a
story
of
a
man
reborn
as
a
housefly
to
avenge
his
killers.
The
film
was
also
released
in
Hindi
as
Makkhi
and
in
Tamil
as
Naan
Ee.
Besides
being
a
Box-Office
hit,
the
film
also
managed
to
pocket
two
National
Awards
-
Best
Special
Effects
and
Best
Film
in
Telugu
at
the
60th
National
Film
Awards.