Kaavalan
Kaavalan English Bodyguard is a 2011 Tamil romantic movie and directed by Siddique, starring Vijay and Asin in the lead roles. The film is a remake of Siddiques previous Malayalam film Bodyguard. It features Rajkiran, Mithra Kurian, Roja and Vadivelu in supporting roles with musical score composed by Vidyasagar. The films principal shoot commenced in April 2010 and was completed by November 2010. The Movie was selected to be screened at the Shanghai International Film Festival out of many projects submitted by India. The Songs Composed by Vidyasagar were topping the charts.The film had a successful 100 days theatrical run at many Centres. It was later dubbed in Hindi as Main Hoon Bodyguard.
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.Siddique had first narrated the script of bodyguard to Vijay,As Vijay had prior commitments then,He suggested him to make this movie first in Malayalam as Bodyguard.Bodyguard became an average grosser in Malayalam.He later announced his decision to remake the film with enhancements in the script to better suite the Tamil audience.citation needed The film was initially referred to as Kaavalkaaran, which transliterally means bodyguard in Tamil. After rumours of the title being changed to Kaaval Kaadhal, the film was officially confirmed to be titled as Kaavalan in August 2010. The reason for the name confusion and its eventual permanent change was due to the complications in obtaining the rights to the title of Kavalkaran from M. G. Ramachandrans producers. They refused to sell the title to Vijay, leading to the rechristening of the title to Kaavalan. ........
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