Drona.. such a drone!
Monday, October 6th, 2008 9:28 pm
Yet another mythical fairytale like fable spun to lure the moving going population. Drona is here to capture the audience with awe and intrigue. Don’t be too sure about that! Drona – Remove the D and it is all “rona”. You would definitely feel that way for the producers who have spent a fortune. All those special effects, background scores that are soothing, all of it is lost like dust.
Film: Drona
Director: Goldie Behl
Actors: Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Kay Kay Menon, Jaya Bachchan, Akhilendra Mishra, Master Veer Arya, Navneet Nishan
Rating: 2/5
There is the youth separated from his real mother, who is the chosen legendary hero to save the world. The magicians evil and cunning to destroy him and get the secret that gives the power to Drona. Then there is a Blue Rose petal that plays the key role. Still to figure what that blue petal stands for!
There are moments where the hero goes talking to the petal asking why he is a ‘loser’! Probably the petal would have had more to say for our poor super hero.
As a child the hero grows up in a foster home in a hindi speaking family guess where? Prague! A day arrives when he brought to a bar (is that how bars look?) where he is revealed the secret of who he is – Drona, a man who has inherited the mystical power to protect the Amrit.
Neither Drona nor rest of the characters in the movie know where to find the amrit! After going through a series of flashy sets, train sequences, ocean by the desert, you still figuring out what is happening.. By the time all is over you will find that three fourth of the movie is already over.
The villian Riz Raizada (played by Kay Kay) comes and goes around like the Joker in ‘The Dark Knight.’Â Lo what is he is looking for? Ofcourse he is after the magic potion for immortality. But it is even more appalling to note that he can recreate himself from a drop of blood and you wonder why he would still need that magic potion!
More to see of his powers, he turns the hero’s mother into a stone what our super hero calls Mamta ki moorat. Jaya Bachchan ofcourse is our mamta ki moorat! May be she should have stayed a stone all through the end. We could have avoided many mamta-based emotional sequences.
Then we have the super hero’s lady love Priyanka who is supposedly his bodyguard. Apparently the idea was given by Abhishek to have Priyanka do that role! Well, well best not to say much about that.
In this period when we have better made movies like Superman, Spiderman, Lord of the Rings, do we really need a desi versions of these? Who would have loved this? The kids? Yes for the super effects and adults, better not say anything about that!
