Drona

About the film

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, headed by Charles Darby and David Bush. The movie features Indian martial arts such as Kalaripayattu, Chhau, Gatka, and sword fighting. It was filmed in Prague, Bikaner, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Namibia.

Made on a budget of ₹45 crore, the film earned less than ₹15 crore and was a disaster at the box office.

Production

The movie was produced with a budget of over ₹45 crore (US$4.7 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.

Reception

Sukanya Verma of Rediff gave the film 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." Khalid Mohamed of 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)."

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