

Drona revolves around a school teacher who is transferred to a government school where the conditions are pathetic and the teachers indifferent towards the students. Step by step, he tries to make the school a better place but is constantly opposed by people including the Assistant Head Master. Will he succeed?
Acting
Shiva Rajkumar carries earnest fury like only a Kannada legend can
Writing
Villains so cartoonishly bureaucratic they're almost documentary
Director
Pramod Chakravarthy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shiva Rajkumar reportedly took a massive pay cut for this passion project about government school neglect.
The title references the Mahabharata's Dronacharya — a teacher who demanded impossible loyalty from students, a layered choice for a film about broken educator-student bonds.