Bodyguard

Bodyguard (2011)

Lovely Singh is extremely respectful of Mr Rana and his daughter Divya. While appointed as Divya's bodyguard, he falls in love with a girl he has never met, unaware that she is none other than Divya.

Date of release
2011-08-31
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (171)
Runtime
2h 14m
Genres
Drama, Action, Romance
Director
Siddique

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Bodyguard

Bodyguard is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language romantic action comedy film directed by Siddique. A remake of the 2010 Malayalam film of the same name—also directed by Siddique himself, the film stars Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor, alongside Raj Babbar, Mahesh Manjrekar, Aditya Pancholi and Hazel Keech in supporting roles.

Production

The film's production company, Reel Life Production Pvt. Ltd, was bought by Reliance Entertainment for ₹45 crore. This earned Reliance the co-producer status and an equal share in the IPR for perpetuity.

The film director Siddique first offered the female lead to Nayanthara, but she refused because she was not interested in playing the same role she had played in the original. The role then went to Kareena Kapoor.

Neerupa Menon, a mutual friend of director Siddique and Alvira Khan, introduced him to Alvira Khan Agnihotri and Atul Agnihotri, the to-be co-producers of the film, suggesting that he should venture into Bollywood. Siddique sent his original Malayalam film to Alvira and Atul as a result of the suggestion and they convinced Salman Khan to watch 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 16 January 2011 at the Symbiosis International University campus situated in Pune. The classrooms and academic block of Symbiosis Institute of Business Management were used in the Lavale campus. The shooting later continued in the city of Patiala in Punjab.

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