Review of Bodyguard

Bodyguard..
Well one thing that I have always admired about Salman Khan is his ability to entertain his audience. But unfortunately that's not enough.

In Bodyguard, Salman Khan plays the titular bodyguard. He defends celebrities and other people he is assigned to against their foes.After reading the above line, you may feel as if the movie is an out and out action flick but that's not true. Its basically a masala flick at its core and this becomes apparent tens minutes into the movie.

The Plot:-

The movie begins as a lot of Hindi movies nowadays begin, an item number. But these item numbers are basically title tracks which are used to introduce the main lead to us and to show us how that character's character basically is e.g. in Dabangg we had the track hud hud dabangg, Ready had Character Dheela, Singham had the title track Singham. Similarly Bodyguard has the title track Bodyguard whose tune is a bit catchy but the same cannot be said about the whole song. Anyways Salman Khan does a great job of entertaining us throughout the track and bringing out Katrina Kaif (in a special appearance) by the end of the track.

The movie begins basically with a damsel in distress situation although here the damsel doesn't know about her distress as of yet. Kareena Kapoor is the daughter of a powerful person(Raj Babbar) in a village called Jaisingh. Lovely Singh(Salman Khan) was taken under Raj Babbar's care during his childhood because of the death of his parents.He later becomes a Bodyguard and is ordered by Raj Babbar to guard his daughter because he fears for her life because of some actions that he had taken against a human trafficking gang. His daughter doesn't like this one bit and tries get to rid of Salman Khan. What happens is a series of mis-adventures which inevitably lead them to fall in love with each other although not in a way that you would imagine.

The problem with the movie is that although Salman Khan is at his best in entertaining us, the story itself feels a bit predictable. At times it feels so boring you just feel like leaving the cinema hall then and there itself. I also have a gripe against the ending of the movie. It feels pretty much forced onto the script and makes the movie drag on pointlessly for more than 10-15 minutes after the climax.

The Action:-

The action sequences in the movie were pretty good. Good but not believable as is the case with masala movies, yet they were entertaining.

The Music:-

The music was just okay. There was nothing particularly great about it except for maybe the title track.

The Performances:-

The performances by both Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor were good especially Salman Khan who keeps us entertained throughout the movie.The acting of the rest of the cast was fine.

Final Verdict:-

All in all,Bodyguard is a movie that is watchable only because of the presence of Salman Khan.The story could've been much better and same goes for the screen play. All I can say is if you like movies like Dabangg you will most certainly enjoy this flick as well. If you don't, well my advice would be to stay away.

Amount of Stars given:-

**

I give this movie 2 stars out of 5.