Bodyguard is an upcoming Telugu film directed by Gopichand Malineli of Don Seenu fame and produced by Bellamkonda Suresh. The film features Venkatesh

Daggubati Venkatesh

Venkatesh Daggubati is an Indian film actor who stars in Tollywood films. He is the son of veteran Tollywood film producer, former MP, Dr. D. Ramanaidu. He is often credited as Victory Venkatesh in films and is one of the lead actors in Telugu Cinema. He has won seven Nandi Awards and four...

 and Trisha Krishnan

Trisha Krishnan

Trisha Krishnan is an Indian film actress and model, who primarily appears in Tamil and Telugu language films, but has also appeared in Hindi language films. She was noticed after winning several beauty pageants like the Miss Madras contest , which marked her entry into filmdom...

 in the lead roles, with Saloni Aswani

Saloni Aswani

Saloni Aswani is an Indian film actress and model. After finishing her her education, Saloni ventured into modeling, appearing in various television advertisements...

 and Prakash Raj

Prakash Raj

Prakash Raj , better known by his stage name Prakash Raj, is a National Award winning actor, director and producer who has worked in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam films. Though he was born in a Tulu family he achieved fame through Kannada, Tamil and Telugu films. He got introduced to...

 in other pivotal roles. It is a remake of the Malayalam film Bodyguard directed by Siddique. The film, which has music scored by Thaman, will release in January 2012.

Cast

• Venkatesh
  Daggubati Venkatesh
  Venkatesh Daggubati is an Indian film actor who stars in Tollywood films. He is the son of veteran Tollywood film producer, former MP, Dr. D. Ramanaidu. He is often credited as Victory Venkatesh in films and is one of the lead actors in Telugu Cinema. He has won seven Nandi Awards and four...
  
   as Ganga
• Trisha Krishnan
  Trisha Krishnan
  Trisha Krishnan is an Indian film actress and model, who primarily appears in Tamil and Telugu language films, but has also appeared in Hindi language films. She was noticed after winning several beauty pageants like the Miss Madras contest , which marked her entry into filmdom...
  
  
• Saloni Aswani
  Saloni Aswani
  Saloni Aswani is an Indian film actress and model. After finishing her her education, Saloni ventured into modeling, appearing in various television advertisements...
  
  
• Prakash Raj
  Prakash Raj
  Prakash Raj , better known by his stage name Prakash Raj, is a National Award winning actor, director and producer who has worked in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam films. Though he was born in a Tulu family he achieved fame through Kannada, Tamil and Telugu films. He got introduced to...
  
  
• Venu Madhav
  Venu Madhav (actor)
  Venu Madhav is a comedy actor in Tollywood born near Kodada . He has acted in many movies in Telugu , Tamil and Malayalam Languages. Besides an actor, he is a mimicry artist. Venu Madhav started his career with Sampradhayam by S.V.Krishna Reddy.He is also a television anchor, who has hosted...
  
  
• Subbaraju
  Subbaraju
  Penmatsa Subbaraju is an actor and fighter in Tollywood. He acted in many hit Tollywood films like Amma Nanna O Tamil Ammayi,Arya and Pokiri. He is currently trying to turn as a character artist from his fighter image.-Back Ground:...
  
  

Production

After finalizing on the remake, producer Bellamkonda Suresh and actor Venkatesh approached Siddique

Siddique (director)

Siddique is an Indian film director and screenwriter who mainly works in Malayalam cinema.He started his career as an assistant director to Fazil. The duo of Siddique and Lal was spotted by Fazil when he saw them performing in the Cochin Kalabhavan troupe. Siddique later teamed up with Lal to...

, the director of the original Malayalam version to direct the telugu version; but he declined the offer . Later, Gopichand Malineli was roped in as the director. The first look of the film was revealed in August 2011 through a poster. Soon after action scenes were shot at an aluminium factory at Gachibowli in Hyderabad.