Bodyguard (2010 film)

Bodyguard
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Directed by	Siddique
Produced by	Johnny Sagariga
Written by	Siddique
Starring	Dileep Nayantara Thiagarajan Mithra Kurian
Music by	Ouseppachan
Cinematography	S. Kumar
Edited by	K. R. Gowri Shanker
Production company	Johnny Sagariga Film Company
Distributed by	Johnny Sagariga Film Company
Release date	23 January 2010 (2010-01-23)
Running time	165 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Bodyguard is a 2010 Malayalam romantic action comedy film written and directed by Siddique. It stars Dileep and Nayantara in the lead roles. This film was Nayantara's comeback to Malayalam cinema after a gap of four years, and it is the first time that Dileep had worked with Siddique. Popular choreographer-director Prabhu Deva choreographed the song sequences.

The film released on 23 January 2010. It has been remade into Tamil, Hindi, Kannada and Telugu and was a moderate success. Tamil and Hindi versions were directed by Siddique himself. A Bengali version of the movie is in production.

Plot

Bodyguard revolves around young Jayakrishnan (Dileep), who has a very strange habit; he adulates anyone with a trace of heroism. Whenever he develops an admiration towards a person, he prefers to move with that person as a sort of bodyguard. He starts admiring Ashokan (Thiagarajan), a former liquor tycoon and leading businessman. Jayakrishnan wants to be Ashokan's bodyguard, but Ashokan does not need a bodyguard. Later, Jayakrishnan approaches Ashokan with a recommendation from someone he cannot refuse. He achieves his luck after saving Ashokan from danger.

Jayakrishnan thus becomes the bodyguard of Ashokan's only daughter Ammu (Nayantara). Jayakrishnan follows Ammu to her college as her bodyguard. Ammu and her friend Sethulakshmi (Mithra Kurian) gets irritated with him following them all day.

Jayakrishnan takes his role as bodyguard very seriously and follows the two girls around constantly. In an attempt to get rid of him, Ammu and Sethulakshmi make up a "fake lover" hoping to distract Jayakrishnan from his duties as a bodyguard. It works! Jayakrishnan falls in love with "PRIVATE NUMBER", and is constantly looking for this girl. He has no idea that his lover is Ammu. Ammu, as a joke, calls Jayakrishnan and speaks badly about Ammu. Jayakrishnan gets a little angry and disagrees with her. He believes Ammu is a good-hearted person. That's when the viewer is able to tell Ammu is really falling in love with Jayakrishnan. This is no joke anymore. Ammu, later tells Jayakrishnan to run away with her and meet her at a railroad station. Jayakrishnan agrees, not knowing that the girl is Ammu. Ashokan finds out and he believes that Jayakrishnan and Ammu are planning to run away together. In order to save Jayakrishnan's life, Ammu lies that it's not her. That Jayakrishnan is meeting another girl at the station. Ashokan lets Jayakrishnan go, but tells others to kill Jayakrishnan if a girl does not show up. Terrified, Ammu sends her friend, Sethulakshmi, to the station and tells her to tell Jayakrishnan that Ammu is the lover and she won't be able to make it to the station. Sethulakshmi, seeing Jayakrishnan, falls in love, and admits that she is the lover, not Ammu. Ammu calls her twice, but Sethulakshmi throws the cellphone out, trying to erase Ammu out of their love life completely. Years later, after Jayakrishnan and Sethulakshmi's marriage, she bore a son. Before her death, she leaves a diary for her son telling the whole story between the phone calls and his father and Ammu. The son later goes to Ammu's house with Jayakrishnan to visit Ashokan. Jayakrishnan is shocked Ammu isn't married. The son asks Ammu to become his mother and Jayakrishnan is shocked and angry at his son for saying something so blunt and rude. But Ashokan begs Jayakrishnan to take Ammu as his wife. So they go onto the train together but the son runs and throws the diary into a trashcan nearby. Jayakrishnan finds the diary and realizes that his real lover, the girl who's waited for him for so many years faithfully, was Ammu.

Cast

• Dileep as Jayakrishnan
• Nayanthara as Ammu
• Mithra Kurian as Sethulakshmi
• Thiagarajan as Ashokettan
• Zeenath as Mani Chechi(Ashokettan's Wife)
• Appa Haja as Rajeevan
• Harisree Asokan as Neelambaran
• Undapakru as Kudamaloor Balaji(College Mate)
• Krishna Kumar
• Cochin Haneefa as Principal
• Janardhanan as Karyasthan and Sethulakshmi's Father
• Nandhu as Ramankutty Master
• Seema G. Nair as Meenu Teacher
• Ravi as ekaram sandesh

Character map of remakes

The original Malayalam film Bodyguard is being remade in Hindi and Telugu. The Telugu version is being directed by Gopichand Malineli while all the other three versions are directed by Siddique himself. Below is a character map of the lead characters in the story of Bodyguard and its remakes. Along with Remake, this movie was also dubbed in Hindi as Main Hoon Bodyguard.^[1][2]

Awards

• Asianet Film Awards For Best Actress - Nayantara

Home video

Moser Baer Home entertainment released the movie on DVD, SuperDVD, and VCD in india on 2010

Soundtrack

Track listing

References

External links

• Bodyguard on IMDb