Drona (2008 film)

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Drona
File:Drona 2008 poster.JPG
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGoldie Behl
Produced byShrishti Arya
Sunil Lulla
Amitabh Bachchan
Written byGoldie Behl
Jaydeep Sarkar
StarringAbhishek Bachchan
Priyanka Chopra
Kay Kay Menon
Jaya Bachchan
Music byDhruv Ghanekar
CinematographySameer Arya
Edited byShyam K. Salgonkar
Production
company
Rose Audio Visuals
Distributed byEros Entertainment
Release date
  • 2 October 2008 (2008-10-02)
Running time
245 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Drona is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language superhero film directed by Goldie Behl, starring Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Kay Kay Menon and Jaya Bachchan. Drona's special effects shots were worked on by EyeQube,[1] headed by Charles Darby and David Bush. The movie features Indian martial arts such as Kalaripayattu, Chhau, Gatka, and sword fighting.[2] It was filmed in Prague, Bikaner, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Namibia. The trailer was attached to Vipul Shah's Singh Is Kinng (2008) and Raghav Khattar's Marathi film Vishavnath (2008).

Made on a budget of ₹45 crore, the film earned less than ₹15 crore and was a disaster at the box office.[3]

Cast[edit]

Special effects[edit]

The movie[4] was produced with a budget over ₹45 crore (US$6.3 million) on special effects with VFX experts of 60 working on the movie for over 6 months. Mainly, the team collaborated with EyeQube Studios with Eros to achieve the quality effects. The crew contained 250 visual effects artists, animators, designers, painters and developers.[5]

Reception[edit]

Sukanya Verma of Rediff gave the movie 2.5 stars and mentioned, "Considering its fantastical theme, Drona is officially escapist and hence isn't obligated to broadcast logic beyond conveying 'good wins over evil' and 'conquer your fear by facing it' message." The film became the biggest disaster of Abhishek's career. Hindustan Times write Like it or not, Drona is artless, arrogant, brazenly derivative and terribly acted by one and all (except for that puckish dwarf maybe).[6]

Soundtrack[edit]

No. TitleSinger(s) Length
1. "Bandagi"  Roop Kumar Rathod, Sunidhi Chauhan  
2. "Drona (Title Song)"  Dhruv Ghanekar  
3. "Drona (Title Song - Version 2)"  Sunidhi Chauhan  
4. "Nanhe Nanhe"  Sadhana Sargam, Nandini Srikar  
5. "Khushi"  Shaan, Suzanne DMello, Francois Castellino, Dean Devlin, Sunaina Gupta  
6. "Oop Cha"  Sunidhi Chauhan, Nandini Srikar  
7. "Oop Cha (remix)"  Sunidhi Chauhan, Nandini Srikar  

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Screen Weekly News Network (22 September 2008). "Unleashing visual effects in Drona". Bollywood Hungama. Archived from the original on 28 February 2009. Retrieved 9 April 2011.
  2. ↑ Bamzai, Kaveree (14 February 2008). "Drona shows a number of Indian martial arts". India Today. Retrieved 9 April 2011.
  3. ↑ "Ten big-budget Bollywood box-office disasters". www.livemint.com. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  4. ↑ Drona Movie Review {1.5/5}: Critic Review of Drona by Times of India, retrieved 2 April 2020
  5. ↑ Mahaldar, Manisha. "Drona, a visual treat with special FX". Ibnlive. Archived from the original on 29 April 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  6. ↑ "Review: Drona". Hindustan times. 7 June 2012. Retrieved 11 December 2018.

External links[edit]

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