 Rajamouli identified some similarities to David Cronenberg "The Fly" (1986), in which a scientist becomes a fly when his experiment malfunctions, and thought of "Eega" as a "socio-fantasy" rather than a science fiction film.At a meeting with students at the Annapurna International School of Film and Media Campus (AIFSM), he compared the battle between the fly and Sudeep, which the underdog fly wins, to David triumph over Goliath and India's victory in the 1983 Cricket World Cup.Crazy Mohan compared the film with "Apoorva Sagodharargal" (1989), a revenge drama whose protagonist Appu (Kamal Haasan) is a dwarf.