Bodyguard

Bodyguard

• introduction

Bodyguard may be a 2011 Indian action romantic comedy film co-written and directed by Siddique. it's a remake of the director's own 2010 South Dravidian film of a similar name starring Dileep and Nayantara. The film was created by Atul Agnihotri and Elvira Khan Agnihotri it featured Salman Khan and Karena Kapoor within the lead roles, with Aditya Pancholi in an exceedingly special look and Karishma Kapoor in an exceeding voice role. It also stars Raj Babar, Mahesh Manjrekar and Hazel Keech in supporting roles. The film's first look and theatrical trailer were unveiled on 21 July 2011. The bodyguard was released in 3250 theatres worldwide.

The film broke many records upon its release. Within the primary day of it unharness, it went on to become the highest opening day grosser as well as the biggest grosser ever for a single day up until then The film set another box workplace record, netting ₹1.03 billion (US$14 million) in its first week, thus becoming the highest opening week grossing Bollywood film until then.

v Plot

Lovely Singh (Salman Khan) is assigned as Diva’s (Karena Kapoor) bodyguard to shield her from goons searching her to require revenge against her father, a kind and successful politician, who was responsible for saving his mother in an accident. Lovely is incredibly dedicated to his duties—but irritates Diva by following her everyplace. Diva and her friend Maya (Hazel Keech) call Lovely; with Diva pretending to be Chaya, a girl madly in love with Lovely, hoping this will distract him from his work.

Initially hesitant, Lovely gradually starts loving the mysterious Chaya and looks forward to her calls, but doesn't realize that it is actually Diva. Meanwhile, pretty protects Diva on several occasions from the attacks of Ranjan Mhatre and his goons. Soon, Diva too falls crazy with pretty however is frightened to reveal her identity, due to Lovely's immense devotion and loyalty toward his duties and her father. Diva, as Chaya, later tells beautiful to run away together with her and meet her at a terminus. Her father, Sartaj, begins suspecting that pretty and Diva are crazy and that they may run off thus he sends his men to kill pretty. Diva convinces her father that Lovely's lover is some other person WHO is expecting him at the depot. Sensing that pretty can be heartsick if he doesn't meet his Chaya, Diva sends Maya to inform pretty her true identity. However, once pretty sees Maya running toward him, he believes she is Chaya. Maya tries to inform him that Diva is Chaya, but sees one of Sartaj's men in the compartment, waiting for her to answer Lovely. She tells pretty that she is Chaya and hugs pretty. During this Diva calls Maya but Maya gets on the train with Lovely and throws her phone away instead of returning to her friend.

v Production

The film's production company, Reel Life Production Pvt. Ltd, was bought by Reliance diversion for ₹ 450 million. This earned Reliance the co-producer status and an equal share in the IPR for perpetuity.

The director Sidique 1st offered the feminine result in Nayantara however she refused as a result of she wasn't interested to play a similar role within the original. The role then went to Karena Kapoor.

Neurula Menon, a mutual friend of director Siddique and Alvina Khan, introduced him to Elvira Khan Agnihotri and Atul Agnihotri, the to-be co-producers of the film, suggesting that he should venture into Bollywood. Siddique sent his original South Dravidian film to Alvina and Atul as a result of the suggestion and that they convinced Salman Khan to observe the film. After watching the film, Khan was very impressed with it and agreed to do the Hindi remake.

Shooting for the film began on sixteen Jan 2011 at the mutualism International University field placed in Pune. The classrooms and tutorial block of mutualism Institute of Business Management were utilized in the LaValle field. The shooting later continuing within the town of Patiala (Punjab). Two songs from the film were scheduled to be shot in Europe but were later shifted to Film City in Bombay to chop prices because the film had already exceeded its initial budget.

v Critical response

The film received mixed reviews from critics. Taren Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave a score of 4/5 and aforesaid "BODYGUARD works for various reasons – it's an easy, charming story with a dramatic twist in the tale, the chemistry between the lead actors is poor however the music is well close within the narrative. But its biggest USP is, doubtless, Salman Khan. He carries the film on his broad and hefty shoulders which alone is that the imperative reason for observation this film." Kamal Nahda of Komi, while praising the performance of Salman Khan, gave it a rating of 4/5 and wrote, "Bodyguard will prove to be a hit because of Salman Khan's performance. Zee News gave the film 4 stars and praised the directorial skills of Siddique: "Kudos to filmmaker Siddique to own bestowed Salman Khan in a very means ne'er seen before! And the action sequences are exciting."Oneindia.in awarded the movie 4 stars and stated, "Overall, Bodyguard is a good masala entertainer and it can be a perfect time-passer for this Eid and Ganesh festive seasons. Salman's fans shouldn't miss observing this film."Samey Live gave it 4 stars and wrote; "There are stunning events of twist in the film which will keep you stay with your seats till the end Shives Kumar of India Weekly awarded the movie 4 out of 5 stars. Kaveri Bemaze of India Today awarded the movie 3 stars and stated: "Anyone WHO has watched Khan's recent movies can recognize the signs – a killer dialogue which can be remembered until subsequent blockbuster is factory-made, a signature ring tone, and a pre-fight ritual-in this case, it's initiating his watch. In his review for the days of Asian nation, Gaurav Milani wrote: