NRI doctor adds Bollywood flavour to a medico film
(No Ratings Yet)A senior doctor of Indian origin has recently completed shooting of his film based on the life of Indian doctors in Britain’s hospital in a pure Bollywood style with usual songs and dance numbers.
The movie is called Bhavishya (The Future) and has been produced by Nikhil Kaushik, a 56-year-old consultant ophthalmologist at a hospital in Wales.
Kaushik a self-proclaimed Hindi cinema buff had always this desire to make a movie on the life and tribulations of a doctor.
Speaking to the Asian Times, Samuel said, “”I’d been watching how the medical profession is portrayed in films, and usually they’re villains, killing people, or fighting with managers. The film explores what is so good and what is not so good about Britain. The reality is a different one in which you are balancing many thing. It’s an unsettled life that people lead. That’s what I wanted to say”.
The movie, which has been shot both in India and Britain, features true professional doctors to have a realistic portrayal.
“Initially, I intended to employ professional actors but I realised that I could get a more realistic film if I cast from the profession itself”, said Kaushik.
Apart from Saeed Jaffrey, the lead pair of actor is Akansha Tyagi and Vikrant Gautam who are also students at Manchester Medical School.
The film that has been made on a budget of 10000 pounds revolves round a love-story between two young medics, a doctor from Delhi who has just started working in the British Hospitals and a British Asian doctor.
Though it would be too early to comment on the movie, British Medical Journal has termed the movie as a more Bollywood meets medical documentary meets health education promo than a standard feature film and has criticised about the lack of professional actors being involved with the project.
“What it lacks in cinematic polish and performer professionalism it certainly makes up for in curiosity value,” the Journal added.
— ANI
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