Doctor G A review

Doctor G

Knowing Ayushmann Khurana's penchant for doing different track cinema with a lining of comic timing one goes to this film in expectation of something slapstick. A Thought passed if it would be an extension of Munna Bhai MBBS or and Vicky Donor or even an inspiration from Carry on Doctor (1967).

It's not so.

Doctor G is a typical Ayushmann Khurrana film. It’s about a small town ( Here Bhopal) guy, stuck in a situation that society considers unusual. Over time, with the help of his family and friends, he learns that there is more to life than people’s perceptions and he overcomes his hesitations and embraces his flaws.

Doctor G is the story of a reluctant gynaecology Masters student Uday Gupta (Ayushmann Khurrana) who lives in Bhopal with his mother Shobha (Sheeba Chadha). His best friend is Chaddi (Abhay Mishra) who is also his tenant and an IAS aspirant. Thanks to Uday's apparent low marks and rank, he is not able to get into his favourite stream orthopaedics. He is asked to opt for gynaecology. His orthopaedic cousin Ashok (Indraneil Sengupta), who is also his role model, asks him to take up gynaecology and keeps trying to get a better rank next year so that he can try for orthopaedics again. Uday begins his course and he is the only male in his batch. He gets into a tiff with his batchmates and the head of the department, Dr. Nandini Srivastava (Shefali Shah) who detests him for not being passionate about the course. Hence, his life is hell. Also, his girlfriend Richa breaks up with him after she complains that he’s too possessive and also that he doesn’t understand women. Meanwhile, he slowly gets interested in the course and becomes a close friend of Fatima (Rakul Preet Singh), who is also in the same batch and develops a crush on her .

She tries explaining to Uday that they should remain friends and that they can’t get into a relationship. But due to Uday’s immaturity and his misogynistic attitude, he fails to understand Fatima’s point of view. What happens next forms the rest of the film.

It’s like two different movies pre & post the interval where the first half will give you a proper ‘humour/drama’ balance but the second half would leave you thinking did you really like the first hour so much to enjoy this overall? Credit where it’s due, it’s really funny where it should be as there are multiple moments which will leave you in splits.

Coming to the performances

Ayushmann Khurana is amazing with his skills as an actor and this film showcases the same,

Rakul Preet’s subtle-yet-quirky performance is balanced and she looks pretty. Shefali Shah and her ingenious presence add the desired weight to Dr Nandini’s school of thought but the character arc remains pretty weak by the climax.

Sheeba Chaddha plays the role of a forward mother turning romantic & her crafty ways of approaching the character help to be with her in the scene.

Then there is a parallel track of Kavya (Ayesha Kaduskar)

No spoilers..

I enjoyed the film

Rating 3.5 * stars.