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,[2] headed by Charles Darby and David Bush. The movie features Indian martial arts such as Kalaripayattu, Chhau, Gatka, and sword fighting.[3] It was filmed in Prague, Bikaner, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Namibia.
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Directed by | Goldie Behl |
Written by | Goldie Behl Jaydeep Sarkar |
Produced by | Shrishti Arya Sunil Lulla Amitabh Bachchan |
Starring | Abhishek Bachchan Priyanka Chopra Kay Kay Menon Jaya Bachchan |
Cinematography | Sameer Arya |
Edited by | Shyam K. Salgonkar |
Music by | Dhruv Ghanekar |
Production company | Rose Audio Visuals |
Distributed by | Eros International |
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Running time | 145 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Budget | ₹43 crore[1] |
Box office | ₹15 crore[1] |
Made on a budget of ₹45 crore, the film earned less than ₹15 crore and was a disaster at the box office.[4]
The movie[5] was produced with a budget of over ₹45 crore (US$5.6 million) on special effects with VFX experts 60 working on the movie for over 6 months. Mainly, the team collaborated with EyeQube Studios with Eros to achieve quality effects. The crew contained 250 visual effects artists, animators, designers, painters and developers.[6]
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 writes Like it or not, Drona is artless, arrogant, brazenly derivative and terribly acted by one and all (except for that puckish dwarf maybe).[7]
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Soundtrack album by | |
Released | 6 September 2008 |
Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
Label | Eros Music |
No. | Title | Singer(s) | Length |
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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 |