I also can’t understand why it’s difficult for people to accept that somebody else can have a different experience than themselves on watching a movie, reading a book, or appreciating a painting …

When it comes to a superhero movie, our audience want the character to behave like a superhuman always-he is not supposed to get hurt at all, in other words, we want more of ’super-robots’ whom we can use in the same way as we use those dummies in video games(a l a Krissh) but those superrobots are never supposed to break down or even ask for a recharge of battery.

There are quite a few reasons I found ‘drona’ much better written and executed than many other superhero movies, particularly ‘Krissh’ and the most important of those is-the director shows his lead protagonist as a human being, someone whose real enemy is not in the ‘bad man’ but within himself-this shows how a blessed human, unaware of his superpowers, conquers his inner demons and realizes his true-self…..all these make the character of ‘Drona’ believable.

Audience did not exactly like the ‘human side’ of either of Spiderman’s or superman’s personality explored earlier(in movies like ’spiderman 2′ and ‘the superman returns’) and it is not surprising that they did not enjoy watching drona either.

And when it comes to your reviews-you not adopting a ‘black and white approach’ but preferring to get more analytical is what I appreciate about your reviews and as far as the ratings are concerned, I feel the rating system is the worst enemy of the reviewer, why can’t a movie be left alone as it is-after all, it is supposed to be a work of art, why add unnecessary statistical dimensions to it at all?

Finally, would like to say that your review was the sole reason for me watching the movie and I did not get disappointed.

i think you got answer to ur question about whether stars are necessary. You gave example of Aamir and Sarkar Raj, where 3 stars for Aamir and Sarkar Raaj got 4. Now this doesnt mean Aamir is bad (as 3 = Good).

Lil suggetion, if i am allowed, stars work alwyas, as they give overall tone of a review in couple of symbols.

How can people make movie like Drona. Drona should be banned and people should be paid their money back who ever spent on tickets or DVD. Abhishek should be banned for acting in movies for lifetime.

move as *****’ed as Drona has never been made and will never be made. Even a retard can make movie better than Drona

Good to see someone giving Drona a positive review. I thought the movie was quite interesting, though there were definitely lots of moments which annoyed me (the whole mother-son saga for instance). It is really more like a grown-up, Indianised version of Harry Potter.

I have mixed reactions to the special effects though. I thought the whole Raazpur sequence was beautiful. Those steps springing up as they walk down – that totally delighted me! But some of the visual effects weren’t as tastefully done.

Oh, and dont add starts please. What I love about your reviews is the chance to think through the movie…and decide for myself, with some help coming in by your providing a fresh perspective and pointing out things I might have missed. Putting stars it too out there, kind of takes away the individual experience. Uhm, I realise im not making much sense in my long rambling comment so ill stop now!