"Bodyguard" Movie Review

It's amazing how Bollywood makes profit out of  mega-budget movies that have no stories. I can not understand why the producers undertake such projects. Except for the designer dresses for the lead actress and some dialogue lines, nothing works in the movie, Bodyguard.

"Lovely" Singh, the protagonist (Salman Khan) is hired as a bodyguard for Divya (Kareena Kapoor), the daughter of Sartaj (Raj Babbar) while she completes her studies in Pune (probably at Symbiosis College). Apparently Sartaj has made many enemies fighting against criminals. These goons are a threat to her life. For a college-going actress who is waiting to get married to a London based NRI, studying is only a formality.(Indian MPs and their sons are richer, more powerful and well-connected today). So far so good !!

No one can be happy if such a macho bodyguard hovers around all the time, wearing the same uniform and acting mechanical. The bodyguard is also supposed to wake her up at 4am in the morning, help her in the gym and teach her self-defense moves. He's so serious about his job that he follows her to restrooms, classrooms, library everywhere.

Being tired of her bodyguard, Divya decides to bring changes in him if not get rid of him totally. First, she tries to make him lose his uniform in vain. Following which, she decides to make him fall in love with a girl. In order to execute her plan, she keeps making anonymous flirtatious calls to Lovely Singh as Chayya. After all, man is a man !! The plan works. He falls for the girl behind the voice. This is the only "Oh Shit !! Now what ?" moment in the script.

Divya enjoys her daily prank as it works in distracting her bodyguard from constantly following her. Here comes the twist. The villain goons spot Divya in a bar and their intention is to kill her (out of enmity with her father). Predictably the bodyguard saves her from them, killing & injuring them shown through a cliched action sequence. What is the outcome, Divya immediately falls in love with him. He is already in love with Divya (or Chayya). Bloody fight killed some goons and the brother (Aditya Panchali) is furious on his brother's death. He and his team pledge to take revenge on the bodyguard and Divya.

Divya is in dilemma how to express her love to Lovely Singh. Her friend suggests her against it, reminding her of her father's expectations. One day Chayya asks Lovely to meet her at a park on Sunday. On Sunday she accompanies him to the park requesting him that she would only see his meetup with Chayya from a distance. Here is an emotional turn. She makes him do a dry run on how to express his love and feelings for Chayya. She gets very emotional hearing his confession of love for Chayya. Then he leaves to meet Chayya.
Divya calls Lovely from a distance pretending to be Chayya to say that she will not meet him as Divya has accompanied him to the park.

I do not understand what more to be told in the script. Now, the villains are really really angry. They want to come back hard. Before that happens, Divya makes the final call. She can't take it anymore. She wants to get married. So, she tells Lovely to meet her at the Railway station (Pune). Her friend listens to this and informs her parents. Sartaj is very angry, obviously...

The goons come back before she leaves for the station with Lovely. This is followed by the final fight between them and Lovely Singh. When Lovely along with Divya is about to head out to the station, the father with his gang arrives to the scene. In order to escape the wrath of her father, Divya lies about her love for Lovely and makes Lovely go to the station. Obviously she cannot not get married immediately.

The movie is still not over. It cannot end like this. Since Lovely singh has to show that he will meet Chayya, Divya sends her friend to the station. Otherwise, her father's assistant will know about her lies. The best friend reaches the station but instead of telling Lovely the truth, she betrayes Chayya/Divya. After all where can she find a better and handsome husband. She pretends to be Chayya and subsequently gets married. They have a son.

However, as Karma would have it. She suffers from a terminal disease and dies. Soon after that the son and father come to meet Sartaj. Surprise, Divya is still single. No more London business. The son's name is also Sartaj. This only adds to the humor when Sartaj's assistant (Asrani) calls the kid as "Beta Sartaj" (son Sartaj). The boy comes to know about Divya and her love-sacrifice reading his biological mother's diary. He insists that Divya should accompany them as her mother.

Finally, they board the train and somehow Lovely gets to read the diary and they live happily after.