The movie begins on a hilarious note where the protagonist’s stoic personality is shredded to pieces by his love interest (a brilliant Priyanka Arul Mohan) who breaks off her engagement with him. Doctor is the kind of movie Vikram Kumar tried to make with the Nani-starrer Gang Leader but his execution got wrong and Nelson got it pitch perfect. Nelson’s debut movie Kolamavu Kokila was a runaway hit and its deliciously dark humour is very much visible in Doctor as well. Nelson Dilipkumar’s screenplay is a sight to behold on screen, at least for most part of it. However, this won’t do justice to describe this wickedly intelligent movie. A one-line description of this Tamil movie is that an army doctor comes up with intelligent ideas to help his ‘ex-fiancee’s’ brother to find his abducted daughter. Telugu movies took the lead and Vakeel Saab and Love Story have been decent hits but still they lacked the bite to pique the interest of broad sections of the audience.Īt such a critical juncture I believe Sivakarthikeyan-starrer Doctor is quite possibly the first big post-pandemic Indian hit. So far, not a single movie that made its way to the cinemas has been a unanimous hit and barely made a dent at the box office and that should pinch all the stakeholders of the movie business. Indian cinema, much ravaged by the pandemic in more than one way, needs something solidly entertaining to draw the audience back to the theatres. Even more so in India where going to the cinema every week is a national pastime. These are lean times for cinema across the globe.

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