Movie Review: Makkhi is Different

Starring: Naani, Samantha and Sudeep

Directed by: S.S.Rajamouli

Rating: * * *

S.S.Rajamouli's very highly successful 'Eega' (Telugu Film) which was made on a budget of 30 Crores and earned 120 Crores in Andhra itself now comes in Hindi as Makkhi. Makkhi scores simply because someone had the brainwave to think of a film from a house fly's perspective.

The story is a basic revenge saga. Jaani (Nani) a sweet person by heart is in love with micro artist Bindu (Samantha Ruth). While Bindu harbours feelings for Jaani, she shies away from expressing it.

Meanwhile, business tycoon Sudeep (Kannada film star Sudeep) is in love with Bindu and when finds out about Bindu's love for Jaani, he murders him. Jaani is reborn as, not a human (like all typical rebirth story) but as a house fly. Here the director had guts to show a very different kind of a Re-Incarnation 'Revenge' story never witnessed earlier.

The revenge of Jaani's death is then taken by his reincarnate version and story is of how the little fly manages to make Sudeep's life miserable and convince Bindu that her lost love has come back.

Being, the lead protagonist, the fly is your quintessential lover who will fight till the end and protect his girl from the lascivious advances of the villain. Note the scene where this tiny fly convinces Bindu that he is 'Jaani', Her dead lover.

This scene will definitely give you tears in your eyes.

Also most enjoyable momentum scenes where Bindu becomes the Gym-Instructor to the tiny fly and helps in the mission of vengeance against Sudeep.

The first few scenes when Jaani reincarnates himself and reborn as a fly and discovers the world and surrounding around him is simply brilliant. Everything, including a small little tennis ball seems magnified because we get to look at a world from a fly's perspective.

Nani as Jaani is just brilliant. Although he hardly had 20 minutes of footage in the entire movie. Samantha as Bindu is very cute and charming. Kannada superstar Sudeep plays the role of the villain to perfection who is almost driven to insanity by the fly.

Adithya (As Sudeep's friend) also performed his part well. But that film works mostly because of two reasons its creativity and to make a mundane run of the mill revenge story so appealing. And of course for main 'Hero' (Makkhi) the fly.