Drone-aaah

Watch it if you have nothing else to do.


They left us no choice. The power was out and spending a lazy afternoon at home reading did not seem like a healthy option. So I requested a neighbor to tag along and set out for it since my girlfriend did not even want to consider going for Drona.
The build up to the story of Drona is excellent. Drona is the supposed caretaker of amrit – the potion of immortality. Drona’s son Drona will do it after him and his grandson Drona will do it after his father. And the Phantom story goes on. Till Abhishek Bachchan becomes the current Drona. Till then he’s Harry Potter brought up by a Punjabi Dudley family with a dud of a son. He even sits alone staring outside the window like the wiz kid.
Soon enough, people tell him who he really is and he takes his own time to realize stuff, but when he really does, he does what Vidya Balan did in Bhool Bhulaiyya. She lifted a 4-poster bed. He lifted a wrought iron gate.
Then there is a lot of walking on the sand which makes Abhishek look as if he’s back on the sets of Refugee. A very hot Priyanka Chopra keeps him company all the time, she’s actually his bodyguard.
Jaya Bachchan decided it’s about time that she got a statue of herself too. But Goldie Behl said she can only have a sand sculpture of herself. So that’s that.
The film has two highlights. One of them is the subtle usage of animation and visual effects along with real images, which Love Story 2050 miserable failed at. It’s Jeevdaya Netraprabha to the eyes to see a thousand blue rose petals encircle Abhishek Bachchan even as he wonders if he should become King Arthur and pull the sword out of the marble block.
The other highlight is Riz Raizada (Kay Kay Menon) a magician who is actually a demon, who is supposed to have killed Drona’s father Drona. A wonderful character that makes you laugh and then suddenly makes you cringe for the evil he does. He’s the one who turns Jayaji into sand and he’s the one to do wrong and then say “gustaakhi maaf” cheekily. He’s the only one that makes you feel a little worth the money you paid. Besides Priyanka of course.
Drona is a rehash of many fables. You see transferred epithets all through the movie. There’s Harry Potter of course. Sand faces in the air remind you of The Mummy. The sword fight sequence could very well be from some Ninja film. The guru of all the aforesaid Dronas looks like Albus Dumbledore. All of which makes you think you are seeing a new story but think you’ve seen it all a million times.
Like I said, watch it only if you don’t have better things to do.