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 (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, Sita, Sunil, and Raghubabu play supporting roles. The music composed by Anup Rubens. The film released in 2009. [1] 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 Sita. Drona’s father Mukesh Rushi is an honest and dedicated Police officer. Drona likes his mother Meenakshi (Seetha) so much and love her 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 (Priyamani) 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

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Anup Rubens and released by Aditya Music.

Drona
Soundtrack album by
Released2009
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
Hindi tracklist
No.TitleLength

Critical reception

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

Idlebrain Jeevi in his review 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" [2]

Awards

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