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| | | Drona bites the dust | | | | Is he a storybook superhero, a mythological figure, a prince, or an ordinary guy who forgot to shave? Nope, it’s Drona. What a drone, really.
Priyanka Chopra’s voiceover introduces us to the story, which, for the first ten minutes reads like a mythology lesson. So we learn that there’s this vial of amrit (nectar of immortality) that the asuras (demons) are after and the caretaker of this fluid, the one with adbudh bal, is called Drona.
Abhishek Bachchan, who has magnanimously carried off challenging roles in the past, is out of sorts here.
This is the case of a film where every aspect is affected. There’s the filmmaker’s smug assurance of wowing the audience with visual excesses. This `all show-no soul’ mode is based on the assumption that the viewer is otherwise deprived of such visual splendour. So many films, Love Story 2050 and Saawariya, to talk of the recent, have gone down this road. What to say, another one bites the dust.
One and a half stars
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