Salman Khan as Lovely Singh
Kareena Kapoor as Divya
Raj Babbar as Sartaj Rana
Rajat Rawail as Tsunami
Hazel Keech
Asrani
Mahesh Manjrekar
Aditya Pancholi
Himani Shivpuri
Katrina Kaif (Special appearance in song Aaya Re Aaya Bodyguard)
DIRECTOR: Siddique
PRODUCER: Atul Agnihotri, Alvira Agnihotri
On its release date, Bodyguard opened across 2,250 screens in 70 Indian cities and with 482 prints across the overseas territory. The film’s production company, Reel Life Production Pvt. Ltd, was bought by Reliance Entertainment for Rs. 64 crore. This earned Reliance the co-producer status and an equal share in the IPR for perpetuity. In addition to this, satellite rights of the film were sold to STAR network for Rs. 27 crore for seven years
Director Siddique has brilliantly used Salman factor in the film Bodyguard, which is remake of Malayalam movie with the same name. Salman’s body lurching action is the key attraction of the film.Salman Khan played a role of profession security guard. He safeguards Kareena in the film.
For three years now, every Eid, a Salman Khan movie has become one of the rewards of the festival. Whereas last year we had “Dabangg”, which despite its simplicity had layers into it, this year we are treated to “The Bodyguard” which isn’t a patch on “Dabangg”. Despite this, it has enough to hold the attention of festive audiences.
Bodyguard Lovely Singh (Salman Khan) is a nice, honest man of steel who is faithful to Sartaj (Raj Babbar). Sartaj, asks Lovely to guard his daughter Divya (Kareena Kapoor) day and night.
Lovely does his job diligently, but is unawares that Divya serenades him under a pseudonym Chhaya over the phone, and has fallen in love with him. Things get out of control when Sartaj’s enemies try to kill Divya while Sartaj thinks Lovely is trying to kidnap his daughter.
“Bodyguard”, conceptually, is based on the type of stories that have made Imtiaz Ali popular – sweet, gentle love stories, where the underlying theme being sacrifice for the sake of love. Yet whereas Imtiaz Ali reveals in a certain quaint subtlety despite the melodramatic nature of his films, “Bodyguard” director Siddique does not have that much of skills to pull that off.
The result is a film that has its few funny, slapstick moments but the problem area is the surprise twist in the end. It is an end that does not gel with the pace of the rest of the film and seems cooked up. That is especially true because director Siddique gives no foreshadowing or inclination before of a possibility of a character doing what she does in the end.
However, that would be a problem with urban audiences. As far as rural viewers go, the ending, fantastic as it may be, might actually work for the film. After all isn’t there enough elements of fantasy in the rest of the film like when Salman going in the opposite direction in a train, simply jumps on to a running train in another direction. If one can digest that, one can do the same for the ending.
A little more effort on the editing table would have eased a lot of things.
Salman fans, however, have much to cheer. They not only get to see their favourite star beating enemies to pulp, but also get to see his well toned torso, that in the end is revealed after jets of water blow away his shirt, much like the subway wind blew away Marilyn Monroe’s skirt.
Debutante Rajat Rawail provides comic relief to the film not just with his antics but also the funny messages on his t-shirts like ‘6 Pack Coming Soon’ pasted over his fat belly.
Salman is his well-chiseled self, and Kareena is as good as the script demands of her, which isn’t much. The music is catchy, especially Himmesh Reshamiya composed song “I Love You”.
The film deserves 4 stars due to its song, action and several twists.
Director Siddique has brilliantly used Salman factor in the film Bodyguard, which is remake of Malayalam movie with the same name. Salman’s body lurching action is the key attraction of the film.Salman Khan played a role of profession security guard. He safeguards Kareena in the film.
For three years now, every Eid, a Salman Khan movie has become one of the rewards of the festival. Whereas last year we had “Dabangg”, which despite its simplicity had layers into it, this year we are treated to “The Bodyguard” which isn’t a patch on “Dabangg”. Despite this, it has enough to hold the attention of festive audiences.
Bodyguard Lovely Singh (Salman Khan) is a nice, honest man of steel who is faithful to Sartaj (Raj Babbar). Sartaj, asks Lovely to guard his daughter Divya (Kareena Kapoor) day and night.
Lovely does his job diligently, but is unawares that Divya serenades him under a pseudonym Chhaya over the phone, and has fallen in love with him. Things get out of control when Sartaj’s enemies try to kill Divya while Sartaj thinks Lovely is trying to kidnap his daughter.
“Bodyguard”, conceptually, is based on the type of stories that have made Imtiaz Ali popular – sweet, gentle love stories, where the underlying theme being sacrifice for the sake of love. Yet whereas Imtiaz Ali reveals in a certain quaint subtlety despite the melodramatic nature of his films, “Bodyguard” director Siddique does not have that much of skills to pull that off.
The result is a film that has its few funny, slapstick moments but the problem area is the surprise twist in the end. It is an end that does not gel with the pace of the rest of the film and seems cooked up. That is especially true because director Siddique gives no foreshadowing or inclination before of a possibility of a character doing what she does in the end.
However, that would be a problem with urban audiences. As far as rural viewers go, the ending, fantastic as it may be, might actually work for the film. After all isn’t there enough elements of fantasy in the rest of the film like when Salman going in the opposite direction in a train, simply jumps on to a running train in another direction. If one can digest that, one can do the same for the ending.
A little more effort on the editing table would have eased a lot of things.
Salman fans, however, have much to cheer. They not only get to see their favourite star beating enemies to pulp, but also get to see his well toned torso, that in the end is revealed after jets of water blow away his shirt, much like the subway wind blew away Marilyn Monroe’s skirt.
Debutante Rajat Rawail provides comic relief to the film not just with his antics but also the funny messages on his t-shirts like ‘6 Pack Coming Soon’ pasted over his fat belly.
Salman is his well-chiseled self, and Kareena is as good as the script demands of her, which isn’t much. The music is catchy, especially Himmesh Reshamiya composed song “I Love You”.
The film deserves 4 stars due to its song, action and several twists.
