Drona Bomb Explodes in Eros’ Face

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Bollywood flop king Abhishek Bachchan’s latest trashy movie Drona is a total disaster at the U.S. box office and may turn out to be the biggest flop of 2008.

Bollywood fans have shown Drona’s hero Abhishek Bachchan the middle finger and basically told this bozo to take his garbage act elsewhere.

For the October 3-5, 2008 opening weekend, the crappy movie had a gross of $199,329 in the U.S., one of the lowest openings for an established Bollywood star.

The harrowingly bad movie had an average gross of $2,215, one of the lowest we can think of in 2008 for a Bollywood movie.

Drona opened at No-30 at the U.S. box office, again an embarrassing low for a much hyped Bollywood movie.

Take a look (below table) at where Drona comes in vis-a-vis a few recent Bollywood movies:

drona box office Drona Bomb Explodes in Eros’ Face

(Since Drona opened in some theatres on Wednesday, the total gross is $237,647. We’ve used the weekend figures of $199,329 to ensure apple-to-apple comparison with other Bollywood movies.)

Even awful Bollywood movies like Tashaan, Bhoothnath, Kismat Konnection had higher opening gross and higher average gross.

So the inescapable conclusion is that Drona is worse than awful.

Compared to Drona’s miserable reception at the box office, Abhishek’s previous nightmare Sarkar Raj was a superhit.

Describing Drona as a pathetic piece of shit, SearchIndia.com wrote in the review of the movie:

Compared to the nightmare that Drona represents, Love Story 2050, Sarkar Raj and every other ugly Bollywood movie ever made is a Oscar-worthy masterpiece.

Take it from us, this duffer called Abhishek Bachchan can’t act.

…. the Drona story is so utterly unconvincing and unappealing, the settings are so amateurish, the music is so pedestrian, stunt scenes are downright mediocre and the overall effect of watching Drona is of walking into a room full of Down’s Syndrome cases.

Drona – Waterloo for Abhishek Bachchan?
We find it hard to accept that Abhishek Bachchan has a future in Bollywood. That is unless he opens a catering business to supply chai and bhajia to Bollywood movie sets.

Just look at the negatives Abhishek Bachchan has to contend with:

* The duffer can’t act.

* The blunderer picks movies without paying attention to the script or the caliber of the director.

* The amateur makes no effort to learn the craft of acting.

* The bungler is just no match for the track-record or the talent of the reigning Bollywood superstars SRK, Hrithik Roshan and Akshay Kumar.

Abhishek Bachchan’s Positives
The two positives of being born in the Bachchan household and the reflected glory that comes from being married to Aishwarya Rai can’t compensate for the overwhelming negatives Abhishek Bachchan is burdened with.

Barring a miracle, Drona is Abhishek Bachchan’s Waterloo.

All that remains to be seen where Abhishek’s Saint Helena will be.

Eros Lied about KI numbers?

Kambakkht Ishq – The BIGGEST SCAM in the history of Bollywood Box-Office!

Putting KI box-office pieces together!

Understanding the AVATAR numbers

NDTV: Despite bad reviews, Blue gets record opening

There Are 29 Responses So Far. »

AJ 8 October 2008
11:39:22 am

Now this is called ripping apart…

neelu 8 October 2008
11:50:20 am

Who on earth writes tripe like this? Obviously this duffer writer did not see films like Yuva, Bunty Aur babli etc. etc. If I were on the Eros production team I would be more worried about the fate of Yuvaraaj

jayshah 8 October 2008
12:12:14 pm

I tell you the writing here sounds familiar!

nithi_s 8 October 2008
12:39:05 pm

I really believed that I was the only Abhishek hater. Then I read this.

Som 8 October 2008
06:37:38 pm

Ooch!!It looks like Abhishek has become some sort of bugbear for many after the debacle of “Drona”.

neelu 8 October 2008
06:46:47 pm

“I tell you the writing here sounds familiar!”

You think so Jay? Perhaps it does sound like familiar writing with the name SRK replaced with Abhi…………..

Kunal 8 October 2008
08:18:14 pm

What a stupid post that is???

Only amusing thing is that writer thinks he/she is being funny

Why can’t I show the middle finger to the one who wrote it instead?

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EAT THAT

rudresh 8 October 2008
09:23:17 pm

did not writer read it after he wrote this nonsense.

jayshah 9 October 2008
01:49:45 am

neelu?!?!?! If a piece like this has been written on SRK (not sure why SRK is coming up here anyway!) – please direct me to it…

ILG 9 October 2008
06:20:50 am

Amusing tripe.
Gives a look into the mind of Abhi haters.
Som,
I dont know if you are naive or just ’simple’. Abhi hasnt become a bugbear ‘after’ failure of Drona. There are some people who love to hate him. Some do it openly, some slyly.
But, guess what. He aint going anywhere.

Som 9 October 2008
08:13:18 am

ILG: That is exactly what I meant.Abhishek has become An object of extreme dislike after failure of Drona,it has given a good platform for the haters to keep churning out articles like this one after another.First it was the TOI piece,now this one.

A C H I L L E S 9 October 2008
09:27:34 am

“He aint going anywhere.”

ILG – u r bang on target … why will he be going anywhere? He is a ‘Bachchan’ after all! No one is denying that and if u look deep, its such abundant supply of second chances accrued because of the surname that results in articles like these.

neelu 9 October 2008
09:38:51 am

Jay – you do not read NG?

rks 9 October 2008
09:43:00 am

Aishwarya back in great form

jayshah 9 October 2008
09:49:10 am

neelu – give me an example…no point saying it happens on NG (this kind of writing on SRK) and not pointing it out – so dig it up, lets see it

neelu 9 October 2008
10:00:25 am

Jay – no, I do not have the time or inclination to provide you with links, but off the top of my head I could mention the REPEATED (and unfounded and unsubstantiated) Allegations that SRK is TOXIC to the BW environment, that his sister is going a file a lawsuit on him for assault etc. etc. I know you are smart and intelligent, your memory cannot be that short. If you still want more then you may have to do your own searching

AJ 9 October 2008
10:17:33 am

Jay i hope i am not interfering but you can find some comments you are looking for in this post:

http://www.naachgaana.com/2008.....a-chutiya/

neelu 9 October 2008
10:25:48 am

Thanks AJ – I did not want to rake up old nastiness, but yes things in that vein. And then we can easily copy them and replace one name with another

beld 9 October 2008
10:32:33 am

lol neelu – touche.. get AJ a scotch

kunal – agree with u – stupid article… i mean why does anyone need to write an article to prove whats self-evident.
btw – whats with the waterloo and st helena

AJ 9 October 2008
10:55:53 am

Hey neelu no worries .

Ravi 9 October 2008
11:24:20 am

Thanks for the link AJ, brought back some nice memories of my little brother, enjoyed reading them.

jayshah 9 October 2008
01:37:33 pm

http://www.naachgaana.com/2007/12/17/exclusive-abhis-new-look/

http://www.naachgaana.com/2008.....f-the-day/

Seriously there are many more – just for a more complete take on whats going on.

neelu 9 October 2008
01:55:36 pm

Did you see that link then? And were satisfied that such posts do exist? That is all

jayshah 9 October 2008
02:16:32 pm

I did not deny anti-posts on any stars don’t exist. I only meant nothing to the extent of what is being written here and follow those links and many others to see more such things. It is not only the extent of what it is written, but the frequency at which too. And frankly the reaction to this article from nearly all quarters is enough to suggest that. Again you singled out SRK, but frankly you can talk about sallu, aamir, akshay too. All get bashed for variance reasons. Some fair and some not. But it was clear, there was a time on NG when practically everyday we would have threads like those links provided, thankfully that is over!

neelu 9 October 2008
03:01:19 pm

But you asked me for a thread like the one I indicated – and I provided you with one. I do not think another actor is bashed at the same VILE level. And then all it takes is replacing one name with another.

Kunal 9 October 2008
05:42:05 pm

“Beld: stupid article… i mean why does anyone need to write an article to prove whats self-evident.”

Touché

ILG 9 October 2008
05:47:23 pm

Re:i mean why does anyone need to write an article to prove whats self-evident.

Because people who indulge in this are cerebrally and genetically challenged,may be ?