Drona (2008 film)
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Movie poster for Drona
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| Directed by | Goldie Behl |
| Produced by | Shrishti Arya Sunil Lulla Amitabh Bachchan |
| Written by | Goldie Behl Jaydeep Sarkar |
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Abhishek Bachchan Priyanka Chopra Kay Kay Menon Jaya Bachchan |
| Music by | Dhruv Ghanekar |
| Cinematography | Sameer Arya |
| Edited by | Shyam K. Salgonkar |
| Distributed by | Eros Entertainment Rose Movies |
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138 minutes |
| Language | Hindi |
Drona is a 2008 Bollywood fantasy adventure 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. The trailer was attached to Vipul Shah's Singh is Kinng (2008) and Raghav Khattar's Marathi film Vishavnath (2008).
Made on a budget of 45 crores the film earned less than 15 crores and was a disaster at the box office.
The movie was produced with budget over ₹12.2 crore (US$1.8 million) on special effets with a VFX experts of 60 working on the movie for over 6 months. Mainly the team has been collaborating with EyeQube Studios with Eros to achieve the perfect quality effects. Crew contained 250 visual effects artists animators designers painters matters and developers.
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."
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