Film: Drona
Director: Goldie Behl
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Kay Kay Menon, Jaya [b]Bachchan
Rating: * and a half



Every time Sonia ( Priyanka Chopra) starts a sentence with "Bhauji ne kaha thha", you want to scream! This 'bhauji' has entrusted his daughter Sonia , and a group of funny, foreign junior artistes who utter Hindi dialogues like 'Bhag jaow, bhag jaow', to keep an eye on and protect Aditya.

Orphaned as a kid (you are made to believe so initially), Aditya lives with his adopted parents and their son Roger, and is being protected by these nutcases, unknown to him, since he was a little kid. Fresh from trying to sue the makers of Hari Puttar, for borrowing their title from Harry Potter , Warner Bros would not be too happy to set their eyes on Drona It's the whole concept that's been borrowed/ stolen/copied here!

After a few terribly over-the-top scenes where Aditya's step-mother says stuff like 'manhoos' and 'pishaach' to young Aditya, the story takes a leap forward where Aditya is now a fully-grown, bearded hunk (read: Abhishek Bachchan), but someone who behaves like he's still 12. Between sulking about how he has no family and singing a completely out-of-place, badly tuned title song, Aditya talks to SFX-created blue leaves.

Which is fine up to a point, but when a wrist band appears in Aditya's wardrobe out of nowhere and Aditya looks at the leaf and exclaims happily 'Mere liye!?' you know there's something awfully wrong with the guy. You are told that the band is actually a 'divya kadha', or something like that. Encrusted with fake-looking diamonds, the ornament looks like it has been picked up from chor bazaar. Most of the props in this film look similar.