''Drona'' is a 2009 Indian Telugu-language

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directed by J. Karun Kumar and produced by D. S. Rao. The film stars

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and Priyamani while

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, Mukesh Rishi, Seetha, Sunil, and Raghu Babu play supporting roles. The music composed by Anup Rubens. The film was later dubbed into

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and

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as ''Sarfira - The Power Man'' and ''Drona'', respectively.

Plot

Drona (

) 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.

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.

Critical reception

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". '' Idlebrain.coms 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".

Awards

*Sai Krishna won the Nandi Award for Best Child Actor

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Drona (2009 Film) 2000s Telugu-language films 2000s heist films 2009 action films 2009 films Indian heist films Indian action films 2000s masala films 2000s Indian films