Many things don’t click in ‘Drona’. For one, Abhishek Bachchan is a poor choice to play the title role. No doubt he can act, but he doesn’t have the body and its suppleness to play the part of a warrior. Hrithik Roshan or Akshay Kumar might have done wonders to the role, while Abhishek looks stilted in his Drona suit and is visibly uptight when he wields the sword. His sword-to-sword combat with the magician in the end is without any spark.
Priyanka Chopra – playing Drona’s shadow and protector – looks fetching in her unique outfit with a special head-gear and foot-gear. Though her role doesn’t demand exceptional histrionics, she does look convincing doing the action scenes.
Kay Kay Menon makes a caricature out of his character with his over-the-top performance. This performance stands conspicuously low in the career of an otherwise superb actor. jaya bachan has a small role and is reduced to a stone statue for the most part of the story.
Goldie Behl may have intended to make an interesting film for kids and adults, but he fails to give ‘Drona’ a right shape. He seems over-fixated to make the film visually spectacular. One special effect after another is hammered into your head as if the director wants to exhibit his skill and imagination, which, alas, is borrowed from a number of films from Spielberg’s ‘Indiana Jones’ to Zhang Yimou’s ‘Hero’.
Consequently, ‘Drona’ ends up a boring, botched-up, soulless film with below-average music and sub-standard performances.
Watch it at your own risk.
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