Bodyguard (2011 Hindi film)
Bodyguard is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language romantic action comedy film co- written and directed by Siddique Ismail.[4] It is a remake of the director’s own 2010 Mollywood film of the same name starring Dileep and Nayantara. The film was produced by Atul Agnihotri and Alvira Khan Agnihotri.It features Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor in the lead roles, with Aditya Pancholi in a special appearance and Karisma Kapoor in a voice role.[5] It also stars Raj Babbar, Mahesh Manjrekar and Hazel Keech in supporting roles.[6]
The film broke many records upon its release. Within the first day of its release, it went on to become the highest opening day grosser as well as the biggest grosser ever for a single day up until then.[7] The film set another box office record, netting ₹1.03 billion (US$14 million) in its first week, thus becoming the highest opening week grossing Bollywood film until then. The film became a major commercial success with a worldwide gross of ₹2.34 billion (US$31 million).
Lovely B. Singh is assigned as Divya Rana’s bodyguard to protect her from goons hunting her to take revenge against her father Sartaj Rana, a kind and successful politician, who was responsible for saving his mother in an accident. Lovely is very devoted to his duties—but irritates Divya by following her everywhere. Divya and her friend Maya call Lovely, with Divya pretending to be Chhaya, a girl madly in love with Lovely, hoping this will distract him from his work.
Initially hesitant, Lovely gradually starts loving the mysterious Chhaya and looks forward to her calls, but doesn’t realize that it is actually Divya. Meanwhile, Lovely protects Divya on multiple occasions from the attacks of Ranjan Mahatre and his goons, including a dramatic incident when the criminals capture Divya, leaving her tied up and gagged as their hostage. Lovely rescues Divya from her captors and defeats the culprits. Divya falls in love with Lovely but is scared to reveal her identity due to Lovely’s immense devotion and loyalty toward his duties and her father. Divya, as Chhaya, later tells Lovely to run away with her and meet her at a railway station. Sartaj begins suspecting that Lovely and Divya are in love and might elope, so he sends his men to kill Lovely. Divya convinces her father that Lovely’s lover is someone else who is waiting for him at the railway station. Sensing that Lovely might be heartbroken if he does not meet his Chhaya, Divya sends Maya to tell Lovely her true identity. However, when Lovely sees Maya running toward him, he believes she is Chhaya. Maya tries to tell him that Divya is Chhaya but sees one of Sartaj’s men in the compartment, waiting for her to answer Lovely. She tells Lovely that she is Chhaya and hugs Lovely. During this, Divya calls Maya, but Maya gets on the train with Lovely and throws her phone away instead of returning to her friend.
