Drona has been released and the hype has been punctured. The way the movie was projected, that is First Super Hero who is here to save the world,First Super Hero with a lady Body Guard; whose Body is guarded by the Super hero himself most of the times, the CGI created special effects and the Joco-serious Villian , with the Jocker attitude and the our Mogambo type costume.....
It was all messed up. Nothing worked..I was convinced from the veery beginning that DRONA would be the greatest Blunder of 2008. C'mon man, Abhi.. doesnt have that X factor ... that persona that guides the audience to the theatres... The Movie has been the delight of the C grade theatres,the very next week; the theatres who are busy all the year round with "Jawani Ki Jalan" type movies.
Infact, Nothing could have saved DRONA.The film lacked the heart of any movie and that is the story.. You cant fool the people again and again by the CGI created shit, when hell lot of Hollywwod is released in Hindi these days, after all they cant create the MAtrix or attempt Lara Croft..then why the shit , again and again, I wonder.
This film should have been made on a 20 cr budget. It could have been achieved by having LESS CGI, more comic book mode, a few more people instead of the awful waste of effort on the Riz Rizaida persona, and instead of Prague a village setting for Drona’s growing up. This would have made the film less of a liability and perhaps even more appealing.
This is what the Boxofficeindia.Com comments:-
Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network
Drona looks set to incur huge losses the sort which have never been witnessed before. The film has a budget of 50 crore and release costs of about 6 crore taking the total cost to 56 crore.
As of now the India theatrical share is heading for 10 crore (4 days nett 9 crore, 5 crore share) and Overseas for 3 crore (4 day gross 3 crore, share 1.75 crore) giving it theatrical revenue of just 13 crore and revenue from other sources may be about 10-12 crore. So the total revenue for Drona will be about 25 crore on a cost of 56 crore meaning massive losses in the region of 30 crore.
Drona is certain to be the grandmother of all disasters in terms of losses. Films like Umrao Jaan (2006) and RGV Ki Aag (2007) were amongst the biggest debacles ever but the losses on Drona will be more than the combined losses of those two disasters. Umrao Jaan(2006) lost around 10 crore while RGV Ki Aag(2007) lost around 15 crore. This year another super debacle Love Story 2050 also lost 15 crore but a 30 crore loss is double of we have ever seen before for any film.
Although most of the trade knew Drona was not going to be a huge hit as was being projected prior to release with the makers claiming to make Drona 2 as they were super confident of Drona, the sheer volume of losses has still shocked everyone.
No comments:
Post a Comment