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Bodyguard

Director                       Siddique
Cast                             Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Mahesh Manjrekar, Aditya Pancholi, Hazel Keech, Rajat Rawail, Asrani, Katrina Kaif, Raj Babbar, Reema Debnath, Mohan Kapoor, Himani Shivpuri, Chetan Hansraj
Genre                          Action
Year of Release           2011

Eid Mubarak to one and all and much like previous times, the much awaited Eid release starring Salman Khan is out today.  And I obviously had to ensure that I catch up with it at the earliest but this time around I had the misfortune of watching the movie in a really cramped PVR screen 4 at Ambience Mall Gurgaon.  And that too from the 3rd row. Sorry about that Renu and thanks for patiently sitting through what turned out to be the least entertaining of the previous 3 Salman Khan flicks that released on Eid.  There was a joke that has been doing its rounds over the past few days.  2009 – IPS Officer; 2010 – Inspector; 2011 – Bodyguard; 2012 – Chowkidaar?; 2013 – Chaprasi? Has Salman come to the end of his winning streak so to speak which started with Wanted that I would have easily rated as a 5 on 10 if not more.  Dabangg was not a great movie from a perspective of quality of movie making but it was 100% entertainment to say the least.  I had given it a 4 on 10 but also a 10 on 10 on pure entertainment value.  Bodyguard sees Salman getting down to the abyss from a perspective of quality of movies over the past few years.  One can only hope that the positive is – you can only get better from here.  Only time will tell.

Bodyguard definitely gives the die hard Salman Khan fan and all the women in the house a lot to cheer about and drool over respectively.  There are the magical Salman moments that can only be described as simply stunning & outstanding to say the least.  The burst of water from a pipe that sprays itself with utmost force onto Salman’s torso forcing the buttons of his tight black uniform open – actually sending the buttons flying all over the place – and the shirt in itself is forced off those rippling muscles (at age 46 mind you) and onto to face of his villain who has to really put in some effort and goes by the name of Aditya Panscholi.  An act that can be pulled off only by Salman and no one else (apologies to Rajani Saar but we are talking about Bollywood here).  And then there is the most kick ass of all dialogues – Mujhpe Ek Ehsaan Karna… Ke mujhpe koi ehsaan na karna (Do me just one favour… that you don’t do me any favours).  Just that the best Salman dialogue in this movie pales in comparison to – Ek baar mein commitment kar deta hoon toh mein apne aap ki bhi nahin suntan (once I have made a commitment then I don’t even listen to myself).

That there are a dime a dozen cheap dialogues thrown in by the ridiculously fat new comer Rajat Rawail who plays the role of Tsunami do nothing to add value to the movie is just one of the low points.  These dialogues not only dilute the punch that Salman carries all the way through to the end.  Performances from anyone else just don’t come upto the level that he has.  Kareena will prove to be just well dressed eye candy to most people who are her fans but to those who aren’t fans like this writer it is just one painful scene after the other.  The music by Himes bhai (Himmesh Reshammiya – with all the m’s in the world) is decent but not one of his better works.  Overall, you will struggle through Bodyguard and will survive if you are a Salman fan. And of course Katrina looks heavenly in the 2 minutes that she comes on screen.  3 on 10 overall.

The trailer can be viewed on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoF4OJkWH3U

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