The director is merciless: he loses no opportunity to exploit Salman’s shirtless action-hero image. Bodyguard has three protracted fight sequences. The hero is a one-man army. He vanquishes all opposition and when he emerges from the uber-violent scuffles, there is nary a scratch on his body and not a hair is out of place.
But Siddique is unable to decide whether he wants the star to project his Wanted and Dabangg ready-for-battle persona all the way through or adopt a softer, more romantic manner in the second half. Either way, the male protagonist and the film end up looking rather moronic.
The script makes feeble attempts to raise some laughs by throwing in a corpulent comedian (debutant Rajat Rawail). His character is called Tsunami Singh but he doesn't quite sweep the audience off its feet. Bodyguard is the kind of film that thinks physical deformity is funny: the fat man is the butt of jokes, so is a midget-student in the heroine's class.
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