Drona (2009 film)

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Drona
Drona Telugu poster.jpg
Promotional poster
Directed byJ. Karun Kumar
Written byJ. Karun Kumar
Produced byD.S. Rao
Starring Nithiin
Priyamani
CinematographyS. K. A. Bhupathi
Edited byGautham Raju
Music by Anup Rubens
Distributed bySai Krishna Productions
Release date
  • 20 February 2009 (2009-02-20)(India)
Running time
148 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu

Drona is a 2009 Indian Telugu-language action film directed by J.Karun Kumar and produced by D. S. Rao. The film stars Nithiin and Priyamani while Kelly Dorjee, Mukesh Rishi, Seetha, Sunil, and Raghu Babu play supporting roles. The music composed by Anup Rubens.[ citation needed ] The film was later dubbed into Hindi & Malayalam as Sarfira - The Power Man & Drona.

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Plot

Drona (Nithiin) is the only son of Mukesh Rishi and Meenakshi. Drona’s father is an honest and dedicated Police officer. Drona likes his mother so much and love her as much as his own life. When he was a child Drona steals his father’s revolver to scare his friends. On knowing this his father scolds him, consequently Drona leaves his home and gets lost. After 20 years, he comes back to his parents with the name Chandu. A neighboring girl Indu likes Drona/Chandu a lot. On a fateful day, she finds out that Chandu is none other than the long lost boy, Drona. It's revealed that Drona and his friend were kidnapped along with other boys. They were forced to become thieves. Drona had no other choice to kill a group of police officers in self-defense, while trying to escape with the jewelry because the bad guys have to take poison out of Drona's body and the other guys might get killed by the bad guys. The officers had to shoot Drona. Drona made a bad choice to kill 2 innocent people flying a police helicopter. Drona shouldn't have killed the people, who were flying the helicopter. Drona becomes an approver to send the robbers and their kingpin to jail.

Cast

Production

The muhurat shot took place on 10 March 2008. [1]

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Anup Rubens and released by Aditya Music. The audio launch was held on 9 January 2009 at Club Jayabheri in Hyderabad. [2]

Drona
Soundtrack album by
Released
  • 2009 (2009)
Recorded2009
Genre Soundtrack
Length30:07
Label Aditya Music
Producer Anup Rubens
Anup Rubens chronology
Naa Styley Veru
(2009)
Drona
(2009)
Seeta Ramula Kalyanam
(2010)
Track list
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Vaddantana" Bhaskarabhatla Ravi Kumar Pranavi Acharya, Rehan Khan4:25
2."Vade Vade" Ananta Sriram Shreya Ghoshal 4:16
3."Sayyare Sayya"Sahithi Kalpana 4:10
4."Em Maya Chesavo"Ananta Sriram Ranjith, Harshika4:33
5."Em Maya Chesavo" (Remix)Ananta SriramRanjith, Harshika4:13
6."Vennela Vaana" Bhaskarabhatla Ravi Kumar Udit Narayan, Sowmya4:11
7."Drona" (Sentiment Bit)InstrumentalRevathi2:17
8."Drona" (Theme Music)Chaitanya Prasad Muralidhar, Siddharth, Raghuram2:02
Total length:30:07


Critical reception

Movie Rating
Review scores
SourceRating
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The film opened to mostly negative reviews.

A critic from Rediff.com rated the film two out of five stars and wrote that "Director Karuna Kumar's potboiler seems rather disastrous. Watch it only if you are a fan of Nitin, or if you want to see Priya Mani's bare-dare act". [4] Idlebrain.com's Jeevi in his review gave the film the same rating and stated that "the main drawbacks of the film are incompetent direction and bad villain characterization. When the villain’s character is not etched properly, the heroism does not get elevated. It may find some favor in B and C centers. On a whole, Drona is a badly shot film". [3]

Awards

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References

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  2. "Drona music launch". idlebrain.com. 9 January 2009.
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