EAGLE REVIEW,BUDGET AND ADVANCE BOOKING DAY 1
EAGLE PRE-RELEASE BUSINESs
Nizam: 6 Crore
Ceeded: 2.5 Crore
Andhra: 8.5 Crore
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Total:- 18 Crore
Karantka +Rest Of India : 2 Crore
Overseas – 2 Crore
Total Worldwide Business : 22 Crore
Eagle needs to gross 45 Crores worldwide gross to achieve a hit status theatrically
EAGLE SCREENS
650 screens in Andhra Pradesh/ Telangana-TELLUU
1000 SCREENS WORLDWIDE THEATRES
Eagle is the story of a contract killer Sahadev Varma (Ravi Teja) who falls in love with Rachana (Kavya Thapar), and tries to redeem himself by working towards eradicating illegal arms from this world. He takes on the identity of a cotton farmer in Talakona forest and intercepts all the illegal arm transactions from there. Journalist Nalini Rao (Anupama Parameshwaran), who stumbles onto his designer cotton export operations, goes deeper and painstakingly pieces together the actual story behind the cotton farmer’s identity.
The persons she meets on her journey share different episodes of the story, with the full picture not emerging till much later in the second half. Why a contract killer is posing as a cotton farmer/exporter, why even the highest government agencies are feeling threatened to take on this single man, why is he hiding in Talakona…The answers to these questions form the crux of Eagle.
The first half of Eagle is just a verbal buildup to the godly powers of the hero and his unbelievable past escapades. The dialogues all sound similar and keep piling up with the actual story only coming after the interval. Though most of the dialogues are well written (by Manibabu Karanam), they are in excess and not supported enough by the visuals. The grandiose soon becomes verbose and becomes a burden.
As the actual story begins in the second half, it is not too bad. Particularly, the love story through the sniper rifle’s crosshairs is visually appealing. The connect between cotton and this killer’s love is not too convincing. But it is his lady love who gives the motto for this killer’s later life – ‘A weapon becomes a force of protection in the right person’s hands’. The use of a small girl in the love story, later connecting it with Vinay Rai’s character is good.
