Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

long-ford A horrendously miscast Abhishek Bachchan is just one of many problems plaguing 'Drona'. It's apparent that the film's makers were so obsessed with grand locations and glitzy costumes that they forgot about the script. Many of the action sequences come across as poor rip-offs of Dhoom 2. Abhishek is a fine actor but he's clearly not right for the role. Priyanks Chopra is the only actor to emerge unscathed. Kay Kay is horribly over the top as the demonic villain. Too long to qualify even as a guilty pleasure, Drona is simply an example of inept film making. Avoid.Overall 1/10

sweet_fairy_princess I agree with the person below, I wish IMDb would allow us to give negatives for movies such as Drona. My mom and I decided to watch the movie and were quite looking forward to it, too, what with all the hype over the film in the media. The beginning was okay; it wasn't spectacular or attention-grabbing, but I decided to give it a chance and stick it out. Boy, was THAT a mistake! Within the first ten minutes, I was struggling to pay attention and follow the story.Everything about the movie was totally disconnected and there are many things that are left unexplained. The acting was abysmal at best: Abhishek Bachchan and KK are laughable at best. Jaya Bachchan is about as realistic as the stone statue that she turned into. I'm giving this movie one star only because of Priyanka who actually looked pretty good, although even she failed to deliver in certain areas. The CGI effects (if you can call them that) were absolutely childish. The scene where Riz Raizada clones himself is confusing as well as amateurish.Everything about the movie seems fake and poorly executed. It got so bad that I actually fell asleep! Not much of an achievement for a so-called "action flick", eh? Overall, I wouldn't recommend it even to my worst enemy. It is truly a movie made to bore the audience senseless.

ritwiksondhi Frankly speaking the day Drona was announced I was desperate to watch d movie....then about a year later its first trailer came...and yes it was awesome and I loved the VFX in the teaser....waited till the day it released...then next day extreme reviews abt the movie were published, some calling it bad cinema with VFX over substance and some as a breakthrough in Indian Cinema...bt doesn't matter reviews are not for ppl like me... I reached the theater with huge expectations....and then.... The movie starts well with excellent camera work....but then on it becomes boring .... m kind of person who hunts down entertainment even from a not so entertaining feature...but Drona defeated me...and I was in no position to get any kind of watchable factor from the movie ... it was promoted as an Indian fantasy-action-adventure.... but pls tell me does this movie actually have proper amount these ingredients..??? The makers called the movie as Visual effects extravagance... but it failed in that department also... the VFX were so immature..m in no way comparing it to Hollywood...but it deserves to be compared with any other Asian or Indian movies....the animation quality in this movie was below expectations...the first big animated scene of the movie where Riz Raizada clones himself was pathetic...bad animation ...it looked like a ammature have been hired to perform this task...so were the blood droplets effects ....only the Sand Particles effect was good ...but rest were average....what the hell David Bush was doing...I believe he had worked on the movie in an unprofessional manner... in the era where Bollywood is try to get near to Hollywood in terms of technology....such things let you down...Love Story 2050 had much better quality of VFX courtesy Sun Microsystems....So is the case with action sequences ..not exciting at all...except the first one with Priyanka.Now the story..the content was no different from any other average fantasy movie..bt what mattered was direction....which was Okay just like any good episode of Hatim(TV series on Star Plus) Director didn't succeed in creating an exciting environment which is required for such a theme...Though Goldie Behl must be appreciated for the thing that he didn't allow Priyanka-Abhishek love story to take over the real film...... I don't understand why is there always a need of songs in Indian movies!!! use of excess songs was annoying...especially Ooopcha Ooopcha song...it was irritating, not the song bt its placement ... there was no need of any song... the background score was enough.... I was yawning throughout these songs...even when Nanhe Nanhe played..which Ironically is my fav. And performances now...Kay kay Menon and Priyanka Chopra all the way....many ppl called Kay Kay as clown more than a villain...I strongly disagree.he was The JOKER...he was as funny and as good as The Joker from Batman series...Priyanka Chopra, first thing a well designed warrior look for her, she was awesome in all her action sequences and other scenes . .. Abhishek Bachhan didn't have much to do ..even though movie was on his character...Jaya Bachhan gave an OK OK appearance.Goldie Behl tried to bake a Black forest cake but got careless forgot to add sugar...

The_Mighty_Warrior Dear Goldie, I know you or one of your agents will read these boards to get feedback on the film. So I am addressing this to you personally.Let me summarise my personal sentiments for your film: it made me cringe, it embarrassed me, it made me laugh at it's stupidity, not a kind of good laugh, more of a laughing with disgust. I was also very bored and waiting for the film to end. Had I not been watching it with family and friends, I would have walked out.As I am talking to a director I am going to give you feedback on each aspect your film fails on and and suggestions.STORY: I read in your interview on how this story was so special to you. Perhaps you should have submitted your script to a script doctor before submitting to your producers. It seemed like it was your first draft It was one of the worst scripts I have had the misfortune of seeing recently and I nominate it personally for the Bollywood Razzie awards. Your whole setting is fake and unconvincing; none of your characters are developed; the story is not thought out. You know I seriously got the impression that what you did was watch a few dozen Hollywood fantasy films, pick and mix whatever you liked and made a collage, not a film.All you did was lift the common Hollywood quest story for immortal elixir, plastered Indian names on it, and called it Indian. Riz Razada seems like a reject from a c-grade Hollywood film. Everything about him, his look, his mannerisms, his lair, his henchmen are completely foreign.Your super hero is a moping loser. The first thought that came to my mind was when I saw your superhero was, "No, seriously, this Cinderella-man is the superhero" but I gave you a chance. I figured you were going for the loser realised hes special plot. In actual fact it turned out into the superhero with special needs plot. In the beginning he is looked after by a flower petal! He is saved by a woman who has more testoterone than him; in the later parts he turns into a mommy's boy who gets walked over left, right and centre and in the end he get killed - oh and then saved by a dues-ex-machine with him suddenly coming alive again despite being impaled by a sword.Your superhero was pathetic. A passive pushover that just grunts and makes ugly faces, and to make matters worse looks absolutely ridiculous in his costume, displaying Mr Bachchan in the most unflattering light. He never actually earns any credit as a hero - let alone a superhero.DIRECTION: If your screenplay deserves a Razzie, so does your direction. You totally destroyed the film.The excessive and monotonous use of slow motion. It became so frequent it was predictable. Every time the hero appears, cue slow motion and take several shots from every angle of the hero posing with his sword raised making angry faces(which is what the hero ever did) Tacky costumes and sets rejected from a Hollywood film. I don't think you even thought about how UGLY and fake the sets and the costumes looked. They were also very boring and empty. I wondered where were the people in your film, and when you had people such as Rizada's fans, you made them look ridiculous too. Then we also the ridiculous Gandalf-caricature in the end. I know what you were thinking, because it is a fantasy film you can go all-out with the bizarre, but this just betrays what an amateur you are. A fantasy film is not an excuse to make everything look ridiculous. That only reveals your lack of thought that went into making film.SPECIAL EFFECTS: The special effects are as crude and underdeveloped as everything else in your film. You should have at least got this right, this was your trump card. At least you could have won the tag, "Great special effects, awful film" instead you win the tag, "tacky special effects, awful film" What is worse that despite having such tacky effects you flaunt them. The beginning with Rizada cloning himself looked like it was from an 80's film. The electricity effects looked laughably out of date. Perhaps you should have consulted the SFX technicians on the other Bollywood turkey Love Story 2050, they at least got the electricity effects to decent standards.The car-chase scene with some cut-in shots of a CGI car looked like they were from an older racing computer game.The particle effects looked like they were the test version of The Mummy. The sand storm faces in particular were very crude.Other graphics look decidedly video-game graphics.You said the special effects had been in post-production for a year and you hired Hollywood technicians. Then why do you such sub-standard results? Did you lack the budget, the experience, the software? Somebody is going to have to explain why the effects were so substandard. Again, why did you have to lift special effects? What is wrong filmmakers of your ilk? SONGS: I am not going to say too much, they are like everything in your film, awful and misfits.ACTING: Well, you might have actually destroyed Abhishek Bachchan and Kay and Kay's acting careerIn short Golide, don't be surprised if you are nominated and win for nearly every category at the Bollywood Razzies this year. A really pathetic film that would have been rejected by virtually every Hollywood producer even at the script stage. Bollywood producers are going to have become more discerning. Nobody wants to watch such rubbish. I doubt you will get funds for a sequel, this franchise is not going anywhere.