Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. Dvd

Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Rajkumar Hirani (in his directorial debut) and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Largely inspired by the American biographical comedy Patch Adams, the film stars Sanjay Dutt and Gracy Singh in the primary lead roles, while Arshad Warsi, Boman Irani, Jimmy Shergill, Sunil Dutt and Rohini Hattangadi feature in supporting roles. Based in Mumbai, the story follows Murli Prasad Sharma (Sanjay Dutt), a goon nicknamed Munna Bhai, who stays with his friend and sidekick Sarkeshwar a.k.a. Circuit (Warsi), and pretends to be a doctor upon the arrival of his parents whose wish of seeing their son as a doctor is shattered after one of the father, Hari Prasad Sharma’s (Sunil Dutt) old family friends, Jagdish Chandra Asthana (Irani), busts the truth regarding Munna’s profession and practice, causing them to leave in shame and disgust. Vowing revenge against Asthana and his daughter “Chinki” who was his childhood friend, Munna unwittingly secures admission in a medical college whose dean, surprisingly, turns out to be Asthana himself. However, he ends up falling in love with a house doctor, Suman (Singh), unaware that she is “Chinki” herself, and brings about a climate of empathy amongst students and patients, which Asthana perceives as chaotic, thus creating a lot of hilarious situations and frictions between them.

Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. was a major critical and commercial success, and was later followed by a second film Lage Raho Munna Bhai, thus becoming the first installment of the Munna Bhai film series. Hirani revealed in an interview in September 2019 that production on the third Munna Bhai film starring Dutt in the title role will begin in towards the end of 2020. The film went on to win the 2004 National Film Award for Best Popular Film, and several Filmfare awards, including the Critics Award for Best Movie and Best Screenplay. At the box office, it achieved a silver jubilee status (25-week run) being one of only eight films to have achieved this status since the year 2000. In its 26th week of release, the film could still be found playing on 257 screens throughout India.

Plot

Murli Prasad Sharma (Sanjay Dutt), nicknamed Munna Bhai (lit. Brother Munna), is a bhai or goon: a good-natured don in the Mumbai underworld. Given that his father had wished him to be a medical doctor, he creates the faux Sri Hari Prasad Sharma Charitable Hospital (named after his father) and pretends to live in accordance with this wish whenever his father (Sunil Dutt) and mother (Rohini Hattangadi) visit him in Mumbai.

One year, however, Munna’s plan goes awry when his father meets an old acquaintance, Dr. J. C. Asthana (Boman Irani) and the two older men decide to betroth Munna to Asthana’s daughter, Chinki. At this point the truth about Munna is revealed. Asthana insults Munna’s parents and calls them “fools” for being ignorant of Munna’s real life. Munna’s father and mother, aghast and later heartbroken, leave for their village.

Munna, in grief and despair, decides that the only way to redeem himself and gain revenge for the humiliation suffered by his father at the hands of the spiteful Asthana is to become a doctor. He decides to go to a medical college to obtain an MBBS degree.

With the help of his right-hand man Circuit (Arshad Warsi) and others, Munna “gains admission” to a medical college by using Dr.Rustam Powri((Kurush Deboo),a faculty member of Imperial Institute of Medical Studies as a prop to write the pre medical examinations.He again encounters Dr. Asthana in the same college, who is the dean. His success there becomes dependent upon the (coerced) help of Rustam,which includes situations such as cheating in the sessionals.

While Munna Bhai’s has no medical skills, he transforms those around him with the “Jadoo Ki Jhappi” (“magical hug”) – a method of comfort taught to Munna by his mother – and the compassion he shows towards those in need. Despite the school’s emphasis on mechanical, Cartesian, impersonal, often bureaucratic relationships between doctors and patients, Munna constantly seeks to impose a more empathetic, almost holistic, regimen. To this end, he defies all convention by treating a comatose brain-dead subject, Anand Banerjee (Yatin Karyekar), as if the man were able to perceive and understand normally; interacts on familiar but autocratic terms with patients; humiliates school bullies; effusively thanks a hitherto underappreciated janitor; and encourages the patients themselves to make changes in their lives, so that they do not need drugs or surgery.

Dr. Asthana, who perceives all this as symptoms of chaos, is unable to prevent it from expanding and gaining ground at his college. He becomes increasingly irrational, almost to the point of insanity. Repeatedly, this near-dementia is shown when he receives unwelcome tidings and he begins laughing in a way that implies that he has gone mad. This behaviour is explained early on as an attempt to practice “laughter therapy”, an attempt that seems to have backfired – Asthana’s laughing serves more to convey his anger than diffuse it. Meanwhile, the carefree Munna finds himself unreservedly infatuated with Dr. Suman (Gracy Singh), who, it turns out, is Asthana’s daughter. Some comedy appears here, because Munna is unaware that Dr. Suman and his childhood friend “Chinki” are one and the same; an ignorance that Suman hilariously exploits. Meanwhile, Munna cures Rustam’s dying father by his own methods of empathy and compassion, which moves Rustam and he becomes grateful to Munna. Asthana tries several times to expel Munna but is often thwarted by Munna’s wit or the affection with which the others at the college regard Munna, having gained superior self-esteem by his methods. Asthana keeps a challenge that Munna can stay in college only if he passes the exam under his supervision. Munna and other mates accept it. Meanwhile, cancer patient Zaheer (Jimmy Sheirgill) is in a dying state seeking help from Munna. But unfortunately he dies in Munna’s arms.

Eventually, Munna is shamed into leaving the college: his guilt over not being able to help Zaheer gets the better of him. In the moments immediately following Munna’s departure, Anand miraculously awakens from his vegetative state; at this point Suman gives a heartfelt speech criticising her father for having banished Munna, saying that to do so is to banish hope, compassion, love, and happiness from the college.

Asthana eventually realises his folly. Munna later marries Dr. Suman, learning for the first time that she is “Chinki”. The medical college – under Rustam Pavri’s management since Asthana’s retirement – begins to imitate Munna’s radical methods of treatment. Munna and Suman open a hospital in Munna’s home village, where they implement Munna’s ideas daily. This, in addition to the birth of their offspring, earns Munna the nickname “Munnabhai – M.B.B.S. – Miya Biwi Bachhon Samet” (literally “Husband Wife with Children”) even though he does not become a doctor. Munna’s parents reconcile with him. His sidekick Circuit marries and has a son, who is nicknamed “Short Circuit”. As the film concludes, Anand, restored to normal mental health, narrates the story to children as he is about to leave for Kolkata.

Cast

Sanjay Dutt as Murli Prasad Sharma (Munna Bhai)
Gracy Singh as Dr. Suman Asthana (Chinki)
Arshad Warsi as Sarkeshwar (Circuit)
Boman Irani as Dr. Jagdish Chandra Asthana
Jimmy Shergill as Zaheer
Sunil Dutt as Shri Hari Prasad Sharma
Rohini Hattangadi as Parvati Sharma
Nawazuddin Siddiqui as a pickpocket
Kurush Deboo as Dr. Rustam Pavri
Yatin Karyekar as Anand Banerjee
Rohitash Gaud as Coconut Seller in Park
Neha Dubey as Girl in club (Suman’s friend)
Mumaith Khan as Reena / Hospital dancer – Song: Dekh le
Priya Bapat as 1st Year Medical Student
Pushkar Shrotri as professor in the college
Sundeep Suthar as Chai Wala
Vishal Thakkar as Varun (Suicide Patient)