Drona

October. 02,2008      
Rating:
2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Aditya is an orphaned and lonely young man. He soon learns that he belongs to a family of ancestral warriors who guard a mystic source of cosmic energy, and he must now take up his responsibilities.

Abhishek Bachchan as  Aditya/Drona
Priyanka Chopra Jonas as  Sonia
Jaya Bachchan as  Queen Jayanti
Ali Haji as  Young Drona
Kay Kay Menon as  Riz Raizada
Conan Stevens as  Asura

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Reviews

Hellen
2008/10/02

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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VeteranLight
2008/10/03

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

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Pluskylang
2008/10/04

Great Film overall

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Aubrey Hackett
2008/10/05

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

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long-ford
2008/10/06

A horrendously miscast Abhishek Bachchan is just one of many problems plaguing 'Drona'. It's apparent that the film's makers were so obsessed with grand locations and glitzy costumes that they forgot about the script. Many of the action sequences come across as poor rip-offs of Dhoom 2. Abhishek is a fine actor but he's clearly not right for the role. Priyanks Chopra is the only actor to emerge unscathed. Kay Kay is horribly over the top as the demonic villain. Too long to qualify even as a guilty pleasure, Drona is simply an example of inept film making. Avoid.Overall 1/10

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Manoj Ransing
2008/10/07

The building of software goes through many phases. The first of this is concept, where the goal of overall software is documented in very few lines. Then in between there is implementation phase, in which the software is coded and is ready to use. If the movies are to be put in this ideology then we have to say that Drona, having a very good concept failed completely in its implementation. What this means is the basic story is very impressive, but the movie fully failed to give any justice to it. The two line story is like this: The Asurs (devils) are behind Amrit (a divine liquid which has power of immorality) which is protected by one family named Drona. In 21st century one Asur named Riz Rayzada is behind it and it is the duty of current Drona named Aditya to stop him. I am 100% sure that if someone writes a story, novel or a comics around this, it will be worth readable. The film however has totally failed to make anything from this nice concept. It lacks the storytelling needed for fantasy movies. And it has elements which can kill any movie. Now here comes the story. Aditya (Abhi), an adopted boy which is staying with his cruel aunt (similar to Harry Potter?) in London, one day meets with Riz Rayzada (KK). Riz is the Asur who is behind the Amrita, protected by the Drona family. The protector is recognized by the bracelet (looked very much similar to that of Mummy 2) and the magic sword. Aditya who accidentally wears it was recognized by Riz Rayzada was attacked by Riz Rayzada. Soniya (Priyanka) saves Aditya from this attack, and tells him his life story. Aditya do not believe it, but in another attack by Riz finds out that he is more powerful than what he believes. This takes him to his home place, where his mother (Jaya) is waiting for him. She told him more about his family and there past. Riz arrives there too and by his magic converts the mother into statue. Now Drona has to find out the way to Amrit and rescue his mother, and at the same time protect Amrit from Riz. The rest of the story is around how he finds the Amrit, the missing magical sword, and his struggle against Riz. The script writer and director has fallen in a typical Bollywood movie trap. The basic script is only of 1 hour. How to extend it for around 2 and half hour? So there are songs, which pops up like pop-ups while browsing internet. Then there are extended action sequence with all slow motions. There are long dramatic scenes like those in soap serials. And then there are visual effects again extended unnecessary. All this has nothing to do with the main story. They do not improvise any character, nor make any point. These are the basic facts why the movie makes you sleep rather than being you on the edge. With high attention to visual effects, some simple basic flaws in story are being inattentive. Only in the beginning you know that the story is happening in the London. But after that nobody has any clue where on the earth the characters are. Sometimes they are in dessert (which sometimes is near sea), sometimes they are at the end of valley, and sometimes they are in cave. In the entire movie you don't know where the Riz Rayzada stays. He and his men are everywhere. Characters too are empty. Drona, Soniya and mother carries one or at max two expressions in the entire movie. In contrast Riz carries to much emotions. He is childish, cruel, funny at the same time. Riz sometimes is irritating to wants us to close our eyes and shut our ears. Due to hollow characters main actors do not have anything to do other than to speak the dialogs. KK could have been impressive, but due to over characterization of Riz, he fails to impress. Still I feel he had done his best to sketch Riz. I specially amazed by his expressions in the last scene, where after killing Drona, he sees the light. It has happiness, cruelty, fun, joy everything in that expressions. Music is another sad side for this film. It is bad and has negative effects on audience. It would have been best if all the songs could have been removed from the movie. It seems that some songs are only to prove that the actors can dance. Action? I don't know why people put slow motions in actions. Action itself means fast motions. The only slow motions were used for Bruce Lee's action sequences, where the action is so fast that without slow motions no one knows whats happening. But why is it needed in Bollywood? Such slow motion action sequence kill the spirit of the action. And in this case the movie. The last words - The script writer and director are to be blamed for ruining a perfect fantasy story.

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andrewtrocks
2008/10/08

What is this crap? Everything is so awful, especially the direction. They could have made this movie ten times better if they spent some more time on it. The actors don't even deserve credit. What a horrible acting! The cable guy could act better than Abishiek and Pryinka.I could not tolerate this movie. I rented the DVD from subzi Mandi, the $2 DVD's you can rent. Well, i wasn't able to tolerate 2 minutes of this crap. I just turned of my DVD, and watched good old Jaane To Ya Na Jaane ( The second movie i bought from Subzie Madi, and my favorite movie). Good thing i didn't watch it in threatre. Pay 10 dollars to get in, but still my TWO DOLLARS WATED. TWO DOLLARS I WORK HARD FOR! I will give credit to this movie for special affects. They are not up to Hollywood's standard, but brilliant for Bollywood. I was impressed with that but thats about it.NEVER WATCH THIS MOVIE ITS BAD AS TERRORISM!

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sweet_fairy_princess
2008/10/09

I agree with the person below, I wish IMDb would allow us to give negatives for movies such as Drona. My mom and I decided to watch the movie and were quite looking forward to it, too, what with all the hype over the film in the media. The beginning was okay; it wasn't spectacular or attention-grabbing, but I decided to give it a chance and stick it out. Boy, was THAT a mistake! Within the first ten minutes, I was struggling to pay attention and follow the story.Everything about the movie was totally disconnected and there are many things that are left unexplained. The acting was abysmal at best: Abhishek Bachchan and KK are laughable at best. Jaya Bachchan is about as realistic as the stone statue that she turned into. I'm giving this movie one star only because of Priyanka who actually looked pretty good, although even she failed to deliver in certain areas. The CGI effects (if you can call them that) were absolutely childish. The scene where Riz Raizada clones himself is confusing as well as amateurish.Everything about the movie seems fake and poorly executed. It got so bad that I actually fell asleep! Not much of an achievement for a so-called "action flick", eh? Overall, I wouldn't recommend it even to my worst enemy. It is truly a movie made to bore the audience senseless.

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