Bellamkonda cuts 'Bodyguard' tail

While it is the director who drives a flick to a successful destination, the Producer as an investor is always the King. One such daring producer of TFI is Bellamkonda Suresh and here is his recent move that shocked industry. Keeping aside the failure and success of this super hit flick in its native versions aside, producer Bellamkonda is carefully choosing his next steps. We are talking about his latest production venture 'Bodyguard', which is a remake of Malayalam blockbuster, directed by Siddique. The film's Tamil version gave mixed results at BO confusing Bellamkonda to take a bold step. In order to cut the rocketing budgets, the producer decided to cut off the entire outdoor and foreign shooting schedules of the flick. Insiders revealed that the flick will be filmed entirely in Hyderabad and its surroundings. The main motive behind this step is to minimize the losses he may incur when the flick flops. Cutting the 'tail' of this huge budgeted flick may keep Bellamkonda in cool, but the lessened amount is making Venkatesh and director Gopichand Malineni ('Don Seenu' fame) furious.

Tensions for Venkatesh's Bodyguard!

Venkatesh's upcoming film happens to be the remake of Malayalam hit 'Bodyguard' under the direction of Malineni Gopichand('Don Seenu' fame). Although the title of this film is not yet finalized people are addressing it as 'Bodyguard'. Trisha is playing romantic interest of Venky in this movie. Bellamkonda Suresh who has been chasing remake movies is the producer. Apparently, the regular shooting of 'Bodyguard' started just few days ago and the movie is expected to release for Dussera. That news itself is sending tremors down Venky fans as Bodyguard's Hindi version is slated for release on August 31st. Salman Khan is playing the lead role in Hindi and if it releases prior to Telugu version, Venky's 'Bodyguard' will surely suffer in few regions. Especially the business in Nizam region gets affected as the audience draws comparisons between both the films. It will be suicidal to release Telugu version after Hindi film releases as it has wide reach and also has Salman Khan who has big fan base in Andhra Pradesh. It is highly unlikely to complete Venky's 'Bodyguard' before Sallu's, but Venkatesh and co. are giving it a shot to come as early as possible.

Venkatesh is 'Body Guard'

The suspense is ended over the remake of Malayalam hit movie, Body Guard. There have been many reports that Ravi Teja would be doing it in Telugu. Then Balakrishna and Sunil's names have also been popped up. But king of remakes Venkatesh has agreed to do the movie. Just after remaking a Kannada film into Telugu as Nagavalli for producer Bellamkonda Suresh, Venkatesh once again agrees to be part of this remake movie for the same producer. Gopichand Malineni who made debut with Don Seenuwill be directing this film.

Bellamkonda Suresh bought the remake rights of Body Guard after the super success of its Tamil version, Kaavalan. The film is also now being remade in Hindi by the same title with Salman Khan.

April 4th is the muhurtham for this film. Bellamkonda is now trying to rope in a top heroine for this film. 

Balayya To Become 'Body Guard'

This may make you stunned. Balayya who appeared as Major Jayasimha in Parama Veera Chakra is now becoming 'Body Guard'? The story is like this.

A Malayalam film with title 'Body Guard' was released last year and won at box office. Dileep played lead role in the film while Nayanatara was the female lead. The same film was made in Tamil with Vijay and Asin with the title 'Kavalan' (means Body Guard). The film was released for this Sankranthi and that also bagged super hit talk.

We all know that Bellamkonda Suresh perches on such projects as and when he hears the hit talk. Now he is taking the remake rights of the film to make with Balakrishna.

Bellamkonda has been keen on making film with Balakrishna from quite some time. He already announced projects with Ride fame Ramesh Varma and Puri Jagannath but they didn't take off. We have to see when this Balayya project takes off.