Drona (2008)

the audience applauded

Let's be realistic.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Blistering performances.

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!

The movie has no Plot. I very bad and dull story line. Very bad direction. Waste of computer graphics. Untimely songs, which will make the audience sick. A super hero movie without a single super hero action. And worst than a TV serial or cartoon. More over the actor abhishek with such a caliber should never committed for such a role which should be performed by some serial artist. The story,if published in some action comics also may not be standing in its feet. Please don't waste your tie seeing this movie. Go and eat a happy meal.. Please give your sugesstion to others, so they don't waste there time and money to see this !@#$

Yesterday even after being such a bad weather in UK, my 5 yr old daughter dragged me to Cinema to watch Drona. Me, having read the reviews already, wasn't expecting much but being a fan of Fantasy adventure deep inside, I let myself to be dragged to the cinema, paid price in UK Pounds and also victimised my innocent wife as well.What do we get in return, My favourite Abhishek, Priyanka and KK as actors and supposedly a fantasy adventure, Which could really have worked if handled properly by a worthy team and not by an amateur director who is Abhishek's childhood friend and suddenly he and Abhishek decide to make a film with sword fights etc (They actually said that in an TV Interview) and make the audience the actual scapegoat. If bollywood still thinks that Indian audience is just a bunch of dumb asses, Please think again and again ...So I was saying, What do we get in the movie, Abhishek, who looks completely disinterested, his eyes looks like he had just woken up and hadn't had a bath since his childhood avatar. Jaya ji, who doesn't look at all like a beaten up lonely widow woman but more like a plump and expressionless queen, Maybe Rakhi is perfect for such roles (Mere KAran Arjun aayenge type.). Then we get K K Menon, a Perfect actor, but what he is doing here. The character he was playing, Riz Rayzada, wasn't just the worst character he ever played but the worst villain as well that bollywood had produced. If anybody still remember Joginder, then even he was much better. Everything related to Riz Rayzada , may it be his looks, his antics or his kingdom, looks so bad, it actually creates a new definition of bad. We can say that only good thing was Priyanka Chopra, as she looks good and more confident and played her character well.Movie sets, may it be Raajpur or Villain's layer , they looks sooo cheap, that even TV serials are doing better these days. The quality of action is another thing to talk about. There was a complete lack of imagination. Except the last sword fight, all the other action sequences were so badly done and confusing, I hardly have any words to explain that. You just know that OK now action is happening but actually nothing great is happening on screen, even the train sequence, that looks good in trailers, was a big big let down. They flaunt about Indian martial arts etc in promos but actually you didn't get to see even a single fight showing clear martial art moves.Special effects were nothing great but they were OK for Indian standards as definitely we can't compare what we see in Hollywood movies with their mega budgets. But again, some of them could be better.Overall, It was a big joke of a movie, which make me now like Tashan, which at least have KAreena's bikini show. I would request Bachchans and producers that now Indian audience is not only Rikshaw wala, chai wala etc but now a big share of Indian audience is an educated lot, who knows the difference between good and bad. I think even I could have done a better script and direction, compared to what Goldie Bahl did. Please don't take Indian audience for granted and produce quality stuff and it will give you good results.

firstly I would like to recommend IMDb- the site to have separate rating scheme, where films such as this can be rated in negatives.my plot - On an unfortunate evening, I decided to watch DRONA. God what wrong had I done for you to not stop me? Well as fate would have it I went ahead and bought a ticket for this master piece of a film. To make it worse i made a friend of mine to travel 4 hrs in traffic to come and watch this movie with me.we went in with no expectations. i don't like to go cinemas with a fixed head. i like to let the film surprise me... and yes it did... Fortunately I missed the first 5mins of the film. The film began with terrible blue petal flying into a house, a stupid kid fooling around with it and an uncle who only has a cameo of few seconds. Of course you remember the spider-man and his old man. this uncle does not say much and gladly dies soon without any significance of any kind. Cruel aunt and mean cousin brother are incharge of Drona's life. Priyanaka Chopra is secretly protecting the so-called protector of the universe.One day and damn foolish magician finds that DRONA is alive and he has the access to ELXIR. But before the magician can find Drona... Drona has to find himself? how philosophical? he figures out that he is a prince of some ruined land in India and he has a mother who is dressed distastefully as it can be. He father died of getting drowned and he is now responsible of saving the elixir from getting into wrong hands..The magician comes and exploits the maa beta angle. the Drona decides to give him the elixir for the life of his mom. now how brave is it ?and then a whole lot of confusing and frustrating events happen. in the end Drona kills the villain.... are we expected to be surprised???Acting was the worst... i think AB Jr can take acting coaching from Himesh. Priyanaka, looked neither hot sexy or ugly... KK... poor him.In all the film is a total humiliation of the audiences. Making movies such as this film should be considered terrorism.