| Directed by | Siddique |
|---|---|
| Produced by | C.Romesh Babu |
| Written by | Siddique |
| Screenplay by | Siddique |
| Starring | Vijay Asin Rajkiran Mithra Kurian Vadivelu Roja Selvamani |
| Music by | Vidyasagar |
| Cinematography | N. K. Ekambaram |
| Edited by | K. R. Gowri Shankar |
Production
company |
Ekaveera Creations
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| Distributed by | Cinema Paradise |
Release dates
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Running time
| 153 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Kaavalan (English: Bodyguard) is a 2011 Tamil romantic comedy film written and directed by Siddique, starring Vijay and Asin in the lead roles. The film is a remake of Siddique's previous Malayalam film Bodyguard. It features Rajkiran, Mithra Kurian, Roja and Vadivelu in supporting roles with musical score composed by Vidyasagar. The film's principal shoot commenced in April 2010[1][2][3] 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.[4] The Songs Composed by Vidyasagar were topping the charts. The film ran for 100 days in theatres.
Cast
- Vijay as Bhoominathan (Bhoomi)
- Asin as Meera
- Rajkiran as Muthuramalingam
- Mithra Kurian as Madhu
- Vadivelu as Ammavasai
- Roja as Devika
- Livingston as college principal
- Mahadevan as Devarajan
- Krishna Kumar as Karthik
- Neepa as Poongodi
- Nizhalgal Ravi as Parthasarathy
- Yuvashree as Bhoominathan's mother
- M. S. Bhaskar Maadhu's father
- Madhan Bob as college lecturer
- Guinnes Pakru as Meera's friend and classmate
- Sharmilee as hostel warden
Character map of remakes
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.[6][7]
| Bodyguard (Malayalam; 2010) | Kaavalan (Tamil; 2011) | Bodyguard (Hindi; 2011) | Bodyguard (Kannada; 2011) | Bodyguard (Telugu; 2012) | Bodyguard (Bengali) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jayakrishnan (Dileep) | Bhoominathan (Vijay) | Lovely Singh (Salman Khan) | Jayakrishna (Jaggesh) | Venkatadri (Venkatesh) | (Shakib Khan) |
| Ammu (Nayanthara) | Meera (Asin) | Divya (Kareena Kapoor) | Ammu (Daisy Shah) | Keerthi (Trisha Krishnan) | (Nipun) |
| Sethulakshmi (Mithra Kurian) | Maadhu (Mithra Kurian) | Maya (Hazel Keech) | Poorna (Spoorthi) | Swathi (Saloni Aswani) | |
| Ashokettan (Thiagarajan) | Muthuramalingam (Rajkiran) | Sartaj Rana (Raj Babbar) | Ashokanna (Gurudut) | Varadarajula Naidu (Prakash Raj) |
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