Bodyguard
368th of 443 in Tollywood
- Out-grossed 46% of Tollywood releases with reported figures ($3M).
- Returned 0.4× its budget, against an industry median of 1.5×.
- Momentum in the 18th percentile.
- Audience rating 5.1 from 13 votes, the 25th percentile.
- Cost
- $8M
- Took
- $3M
Against a Tollywood median of 1.5×, so this one returned 0.3 times what a typical release there does.
The money says flop. What do you say?
A remake tale, the story begins with Venkatadri (Venkatesh) who has great respect for Varadarajulu Naidu (Prakash Raj) as he saves his life. However, he keeps getting into fights wherever he sees injustice. To bring some discipline, Venkatadri’s uncle (Tanikella) sends him to Varadarajulu Naidu as his personal bodyguard.However, Varadarajulu’s enemy Siva Reddy (Kota) wants revenge and he wants to kill Keerthi (Trisha), Varadarajulu’s daughter. Knowing this threat, Venkatadri is assigned the task of protecting Keerthi. But she along with her friend Swathi (Saloni) don’t like the bossy and over protective nature of Venkatadri.To play a prank, Keerthi starts calling Venkatadri from a private number and says she is in love with him. After few hesitations, Venkatadri starts falling in love with the caller not knowing it is Keerthi.
- Released
- 14 January 2012
- Runtime
- 2h 30m
- Language
- Telugu
- Industry
- Tollywood
- VenkateshVenkatadri
- Trisha KrishnanKeerthi
- Saloni AswaniSwathi
- Prakash RajVaradarajula Naidu
- Meenakshi DixitItem Number
- Director
- Gopichand Malineni
- Producer
- Bellamkonda Suresh