Salman Khan's Bodyguard is releasing in about 120 screens across Andhra Pradesh setting new record for a Hindi film. In Hyderabad city alone, 52 screens were reserved for the film that is hitting the screens on Ramzan - August 31, 2011.
This is very bad news for Venkatesh. For he's also doing a film with the same name and same story in Telugu that will hit the screens in October. If more and more people see the Hindi version, collections for his Telugu film will be affected badly. Both Salman'sBodyguard and Venkatesh's Ganga The Bodyguard are official remakes of Malayalam hit movie titled Bodyguard.
Normally, Hindi films don't get wide release in Andhra Pradesh but the festival weekend (Ramzan and Vinayaka Chaviti) and craze for Salman Khan after the stupendous success of Dabangg and Ready , plus no major releases in Telugu made the distributors of this Salman starrer to release aggressively.
When asked about this, Venkatesh recently replied to the media that he is not worried about Salman's film. "We have loyal audiences for Telugu films. Even if Salman film becomes big hit here, we need not worry," he said.
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