Of movies and messages

Towards the close of last year, that is couple of weeks ago, I watched a hindi movie called “Doctor G”. Had been wanting to post about ever since. The lead guy, Ayushmaan Khurana, whom I believe resemble Edward Norton in some angles, has made a name for himself in picking off beat themes. Almost all his movies have a never tried storyline and his character would be something that majority of the mainstream heroes wouldn’t touch with a stick. I’ve seen most of his movies and I like the humorized approach towards such sensitive topics. He is possibly the bravest actor in India who bets the box office potential of a script sheerly by its content. Doctor G is a testament to this statement where 90% of the cast are ladies, including the director, with the theme being primarily about ladies and how bling guys are towards them. And who better than Ayushman to pass on that message!! Only a lead guy who is super confident on himself and on the role, he is portraying could’ve even committed to this story. If I go any further in deifying him, the purpose of the movie itself would be redundant. The story is about a guy who is trying to get into Ortho specialization, like his brother, ends up with gynecology as his entrance scores can get him only that seat. He blames his girlfriend who gets good score and moves to a different city, ditching him in the process, for his low scores. Eventually, grudgingly, he gets into the gynec department, to find him being the only guy in the whole of department. He detests every single moment and secretly studies for the repeat entrance the coming year to get good scores and move into ortho. His arguments being, how he can he treat something when he doesn’t posses those organs!!! Obviously and as per cinematic formulae he gels and even does some miracle things in that department. If not for those cliched scenes the movie would have been more like a documentary. The standout thing about the movie for me being the strong lady cast. Be it the heroine, Rakul, who doesn’t end up with the hero even though she is engaged to someone else and despite falling for the hero, the dean of the department – a super confident and fantastic, Shefali shah (there is a scene where the hero ends up in front of her on her room due to some issue and the way she reams him up would literally send shiver on anyone who had to undergo such a situation. Even without any description her body language would’ve been evident as to who was the superior officer on that room), a cute and weirdly funny yet original Sheeba Chaddha as the mother of Ayushman and the rest of the lady cast, with the standout of the lot being that nurse/receptionist. The running time of the movie is well under 2 hours which makes it feel like an extended episode of a web series. The major knot being teen pregnancy and the family angle of the hero are all previously conceived thought processes. The major conflict reason being a diluted one doesn’t help but that apart, an out and out of the ladies for the ladies kind of movie which deservers a special mention in itself, considering the industry being absolutely dominated by males.