Eeenadu
Eeenadu (Telugu: ఈనాడు) is a 2009 Telugu film, a remake of the 2008 Hindi film A Wednesday!. Directed by Chakri Toleti, and starring Kamal Haasan and Venkatesh in the lead roles. It was simultaneously made in Tamil cinema as Unnaipol Oruvan with Mohanlal playing Venkatesh's role. The film was a critical and commercial success.
Director:
Chakri Toleti
Producer:
Kamal Haasan, S. Chandra Haasan, Ronnie Screwvala
Music Director:
Shruti Haasan
Writer:
Neeraj Pandey, Kamal Haasan, Neelakanta
Stars
Kamal Haasan,
Venkatesh,
Lakshmi,
Bharath Reddy,
Ganesh Venkatraman,
Anuja Iyer,
Sriman,
Santhana Bharathi,
M. S. Baskar,
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Eeenadu
Eeenadu (Telugu: ఈనాడు) is a 2009 Telugu film, a remake of the 2008 Hindi film A Wednesday!. Directed by Chakri Toleti, and starring Kamal Haasan and Venkatesh in the lead roles. It was simultaneously made in Tamil cinema as Unnaipol Oruvan with Mohanlal playing Venkatesh's role. The film was a critical and commercial success.
Story
In the opening frame, the recently dismissed Hyderabad Police Commissioner - Eashwar Prasad (Daggubati Venkatesh)
standing at the lakeshore, describes in a voice-over about his
termination due to a common man walked into his life and turning
everything topsy-turvy. This scene leads into the flashback. An unnamed
man (Kamal Haasan)
is shown strategically placing a travel bag within a train in a railway
station, bus and in a multiplex at Hyderabad. He proceeds to place
another bag, under the false pretense of lodging an FIR, in the toilet
of a police station located at Lakdi-ka-pool, Hyderabad. He then arrives
on the rooftop of a building under construction near Raj Bhavan road
and sets up his base of operations, equipped with various modern
technology gadgets and instruments. He calls up Eashwar and informs him
that 5 bombs have been placed in different locations throughout
Hyderabad, which are programmed to explode simultaneously within four
hours. The common man demands that he would like to negotiate with a
senior Government official. Eashwar seeks the services of the Chief
Secretary(Lakshmi)
to act as the negotiator. Eashwar also alerts his team involved in
intelligence research and surveillance, tapping all the available
resources in gathering preliminary information and tracing the location
of the caller. Meanwhile, the caller tips off TV9 news reporter Shilpa
Rajkumar (Anuja Iyer), telling her to reach Lakdi-ka-pool police station immediately as it is going to be "the most important day of her life".
Eashwar initially suspects the anonymous caller to be bluffing, but
his doubts are dispelled as the caller, to prove his seriousness and the
police force's helplessness, reveals that a bomb has been planted in
the police station. When the bomb disposal squad find the bomb, there is
only 3 minutes left. The common man calls Eashwar and tells him the
instructions to deactivate the bomb. Based on these, the bomb is
defused. Shilpa reaches the scene on the caller's instructions and
reports about the situation. There is intense debate between Eashwar and
the Chief Secretary on who would act as the negotiator with the common
man. The chief minister does not want to get into this and the Chief
Secretary also does not want to take upon the responsibility. Hence,
Eashwar himself takes on the role of the negotiator with the common man.
The common man demands the release of four terrorists, Abdullah,
Inayadullah, Ahamadullah and Karamchand Lala,three from charlapally jail
and one from Rajhamundry who have been involved in and arrested for
many of the major terrorist attacks and activities that have happened in
the country during the previous decade.
Eashwar cleverly uses Shilpa to fake a report on live television that
four terrorists are being relocated to an undisclosed common site,
turning the caller's tool back onto him. Eashwar's men find out that the
caller is using advanced software to automatically switch the numbers
and locations of his mobile phone SIM card every minute, rendering their
manpower and the obsolete equipments useless and prompting them to
employ the services of a young hacker, who turns out to be an IIT
dropout. In the meantime, Eashwar is also able to obtain a facial
composite of the caller with help of the police officer to whom the
caller had approached to lodge the fake FIR during the earlier scenes of
the film; but much of the time passes without any concrete results on
the identity or the location of the caller. Ultimately, Eashwar agrees
with the caller's demand and puts two of his best men, Arif Khan (Ganesh Venkatraman)
and Gautham Reddy (Bharath Reddy), in charge of handing over the four
terrorists along with cell phones at the old Begumpet Airport (end of
Runway no. 4). The caller also demands reporter Shilpa to reach the
nearest police station at Begumpet. Once there, the caller confirms the
identity of all the four men via a conference call with Arif and
Eashwar, and then asks Arif and Gautham to unlock their handcuffs and
leave them alone at a particular spot. Gautham orders his men to do as
told but at the last moment, Arif decides not to hand over Abdullah to
ensure all the information regarding the locations of the bombs can be
forced out from the caller. Gautham argues with Arif and demands he do
as ordered but Arif forcefully grabs the terrorist and starts walking
away. As they leave behind the remaining three, the caller, unaware of
the ongoing fiasco, uses a cell phone placed in a rigged jeep at the
spot to detonate an explosion in which all the three terrorists perish.
Arif relays this information to Eashwar, which is confirmed by the
anonymous caller as he reveals that he is just a "stupid common man",
not belonging to any terrorist outfit, and his plan was not to free the
terrorists but to kill them, avenging all the terrorist attacks they had
helped carry out in Hyderabad and other major cities of India, thus
"cleaning the roach-infested house". Eashwar tries to reason with him
and tries to find out his religion, the justification for this action,
any personal incidents that prompted him to take such an action etc. The
common man narrates an incident of how a Muslim woman was being
tortured and molested by communal people. The common man also says that
he can take actions for the sufferings meted out to people from other
communities too. The caller threatens to blow up the remaining bombs
across the city unless Arif and Gautham kill Abdullah. The Chief
Secretary (Lakshmi)
tells Eashwar that the Chief Minister has to know about the Current
Situation but Eashwar disagrees and tells her that he'll face the
consequences, and orders Arif to kill the terrorist. As Shilpa reports
the scene on television, the young hacker traces the caller's location
but refuses to reveal it saying that the caller was actually "brainy",
and compared to him, the hacker was only one among the billions. But
Eashwar looks in the hacker's computer, discovers the location and
leaves abruptly towards the site.
The caller calls up Eashwar, as he is on the way, for a final time to
further reveal that he had not planted any other bomb in the city. At
this point, Eashwar surprisingly declares he already knew there were no
more bombs which makes it clear that his decision to kill the last
terrorist wasn't taken in fear but in confidence. Eashwar reaches the
caller's location just as the latter is leaving the place, having
destroyed all his gadgets and equipments, leaving behind no evidence.
The two meet briefly when Eashwar, identifying the anonymous caller on
the basis of the face sketch, offers the man a ride home and introduces
himself. Both shake hands, when Eashwar's voice-over cuts back as he
says the man told him his real name but his name doesn't have any
significance. The film ends on an idealistic note, with Eashwar
admitting that they all knew the common man was disturbed because of the
insecure environment and the incompetence of the governing authorities
but he never imagined him to go to such lengths and have the guts to do
something like that. He also repeats that the facts of this incident
cannot be found in any written record but only in the memories of those
who actually witnessed it, and acknowledges that although the incidence
has ambiguous moral significance, he personally feels that whatever
happened, happened for the best.Date uploaded:
Sun Jul 29 2012 15:46:17 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
