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Review |
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Music :
Dhruv
Ghanekar |
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Lyrics :
Vaibhav Modi |
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Direction :
Goldie Behl |
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Producer :
Sunil
Lulla, Shrishti Arya |
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Leading Cast :
Priyanka Chopra, Kay Kay Menon,
Abhishek Bachchan, |
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Jaya Bachchan |
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Gentleladies and men. Please make way for our new
local superhero – Indiana Drones. Mind you, he
doesn’t embark on any trivial mission like the
search for the Holy Grail. Drona fights to save
nothing less than the entire srishti.
As you must have rightly guessed, director Goldie
Behl lets his imagination run amok in Drona . He
pieces together a visual spectacle full of
mind-numbing special effects and a zillion poses of
a sword-wielding Abhishek Bachchan trying hard to
stand gracefully against the strong desert winds.
And that’s pretty much what ‘Drona’ is all about.
Visuals, and visuals, and some more visuals. Story
and script may go to hell. Or still better, to the
asuras. |
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‘Drona’ tells a tale of a clan of warriors who have
been protecting the supreme secret of the elixir of
life – the amrit that was churned out by the gods
but has been sought by the asuras (demons) since
forever. Drona is the title of the main person who
guards the secret.
Now, cut to the present day Prague where Aditya
lives a thankless existence until one day he –
guided by a hovering rose petal – finds an ancient
bracelet in his |
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cupboard and puts it on. Coincidentally, a devious
magician Riz Raizada ( Kay Kay Menon ) visits the city for
his show and spots Aditya and recognizes him as a potential
Drona, the only person who knows (or could know) the secret
place where the amrit is hidden.
You see, Riz is the modern asura who wants to be immortal by
gulping down the holy amrit. And Drona is the man who
possesses its secret.
Before Aditya can figure out why the heck this queer-looking
magician is so interested in him (pun unintended), enters
Sonia ( Priyanka Chopra ) who kicks a few butts and protects
Aditya from the magician’s men. Aditya is then told about
his real identity – that he is the next Drona.
Voila.
So, our superhero-in-waiting flies home to Pratapgarh to
take charge of his duties as the protector of the pious
secret. But the evil Riz catches up with him fast. What
follows is a battle between Drona and Riz, the good and the
evil. And you don’t have to be an Einstein to figure out who
will win this battle. |
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Many things don’t click in ‘Drona’. For one,
Abhishek Bachchan is a poor choice to play the title
role. No doubt he can act, but he doesn’t have the
body and its suppleness to play the part of a
warrior. A Hrithik Roshan or Akshay Kumar might have
done wonders to the role, while Abhishek looks
stilted in his Drona suit and is visibly uptight
when he wields the sword. His sword-to-sword combat
with the magician in the end is without any spark. |
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Priyanka Chopra – playing Drona’s shadow and protector –
looks fetching in her unique outfit with a special head-gear
and foot-gear. Though her role doesn’t demand exceptional
histrionics, she does look convincing doing the action
scenes.
Kay Kay Menon makes a caricature out of his character with
his over-the-top performance. This performance stands
conspicuously low in the career of an otherwise superb
actor. Jaya Bachchan has a small role and is reduced to a
stone statue for the most part of the story.
Goldie Behl may have intended to make an interesting film
for kids and adults, but he fails to give ‘Drona’ a right
shape. He seems over-fixated to make the film visually
spectacular. One special effect after another is hammered
into your head as if the director wants to exhibit his skill
and imagination, which, alas, is borrowed from a number of
films from Spielberg’s ‘Indiana Jones’ to Zhang Yimou’s
‘Hero’.
Consequently, ‘Drona’ ends up a boring, botched-up, soulless
film with below-average music and sub-standard performances.
Watch it at your own risk. |
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Rating: 1/5 |
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