Drona Review

Drona Review
Drona Movie Review
Movie: Drona; Star Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Kay Kay Menon and Jaya Bachchan; Director: Goldie Behl; Rating: **

What a load of trash! Feels like forty years worth of super hero films of the East and the West recycled to create this film. When an orphaned Drona as a child is forced to live with his abusive aunt and spoilt cousin you are forcefully reminded of Harry Potter then you’re plunged into a crass imitation of 1980s video game like atmosphere that is supposedly the villain’s den. Then when Drona finds his bracelet it takes you right back to Mr India. If Drona had potential, it’s been ruined by pure uninspiring film direction by Goldie Behl.

So Aditya (Abhishek Bachchan) grows up with resentment in his heart. He’s never known what the love of a parent is and yearns for it. Cut to an elaborately long song where Abhishek does the jazz dance reminiscent of the 1970s Hollywood films for no reason whatsoever. Director Goldie Behl decides this is the best time to run the introduction titles. By this time you’ve already zoned out and decided the film is not worth more than two-and-a-half stars. As the film continues, you’re not proved wrong.

The next scene takes you to a crude sfx created environment where the supposed villain Riz Raizada (Kay Kay Menon) creates a clone of himself using a drop of blood and some weird electricity passing through the globe. The rating just dropped to one-and-a-half stars. But then you see the new born Kay Kay Menon perform and you think there maybe more to this film.

Come another day, a fated meeting between Riz Raizada and Aditya has the former realise this is his arch enemy Drona. Riz immediately sends his men to chase Aditya while the frightened Aditya is surrounded by all these goons trying to protect him. Aditya doesn’t understand why. Before he knows anything, he’s hit by a poisoned dart, surrounded by yellow bodysuit clad men you can only assume are the villains before a gorgeous looking beauty pulling some fast moves to beat the living daylights out of the bad guys; nicely done. Then Aditya takes about a minute more to pass out during which the dusky beauty stares on. Clearly editing is not a strong point of the film.

A song once again, and an item number at that, has this beauty Sonia (Priyanka Chopra) stomping around with black half naked men while her “Adi Sa” regains consciousness in the basement and discovers his pictures stuck all over the wall. Apparently, songs are not the film’s asset either.

Then Sonia tells Aditya of him being Drona, the chosen one to protect the elixir of life from demons. From there she takes him to his mother who had cast him away as a child to protect him. A shivering Jaya Bachchan walks towards her son, her voice clenched with emotion. Abhishek is expressionless. Later, mother and son spend time together as she tells him of how his father was killed by a demon who is now after him. Abhishek is still expressionless.

They’re immediately interrupted by Riz who turns Jaya Bachchan into stone and promises to undo the magic if he comes back with the elixir. Here, Aditya finally transforms to Drona. He’s still expressionless!

So… A walking statue as a lead called Abhishek Bachchan, always tearful actress named Priyanka Chopra and an aunt Jaya Bachchan doing a cameo. Duh! Kay Kay Menon is just about the only good thing to have happened to the film. Children might just take to this film. It’s a definite no-no for anyone else.

source-http://www.realbollywood.com/news/2008/10/drona-review.html