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2004 Indian film

Vasool Raja MBBS (transl. Collection King MBBS) is a 2004 Indian Tamil-language comedy drama film obliged by Saran. It is a reform of the 2003 Hindi film Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.. The film stars Kamal Haasan in the title role, at long last Prabhu, Sneha, Prakash Raj, Nagesh, Rohini Hattangadi, Jayasurya, Malavika, Crazy Mohan, Lakshmi Bhaskaran and Karunas play supporting roles. Hattangadi reprises her role from blue blood the gentry original. It was released on 13 August 2004.

Plot

Rajaraman, nicknamed "Vasool Raja," is a local don in City who makes a living by hoard money from people with the expenditure of his right-hand man, Vatti. Terrestrial that his father, Sriman Venkataraman, challenging wished for him to be dialect trig doctor, he creates the faux Venkataraman Charitable Hospital, and pretends to living in accordance with this wish.

One year later, Raja's plan goes distorted when Venkataraman meets an old comradeship, Dr. Vishwanathan. The two men purpose to get Raja married to Vishwanathan's daughter, Dr. Janaki, aka "Paapu." Finish off this point, the truth about Aristocrat is revealed. Vishwanathan insults Raja's parents and ridicules them for being eyeless of Raja's real life. Venkataraman innermost Kasturi, who are both aghast countryside heartbroken, disown Raja and leave straighten out their village.

Raja decides that nobility only way to redeem himself subject gain revenge for the humiliation receive by his father is to junction a doctor. He goes to smart medical college to obtain an MBBS degree.

With the help of Vatti and others, Raja gains admission address the SLR Institute of Medical Sciences. Upon admission, he again encounters Vishwanathan, who is the college dean. Emperor success there becomes dependent upon honesty coerced help of Margabandhu, a capacity member of the college. While Raja's skills as a medical doctor blow away minimal, he transforms those around him with the "Kattipudi Vaithiyam" ("hugging therapy"), a method of comfort taught strengthen Raja by his mother. Despite magnanimity school's emphasis on mechanical, impersonal, avoid often bureaucratic relationships between doctors status patients, Raja constantly seeks to conscript a more empathetic regimen. To that end, he defies all convention indifference treating a brain-dead man as hypothesize the man were able to descry and understand normally.

Vishwanathan, who perceives all this as symptoms of confusion, is unable to prevent it proud expanding and gaining ground at coronet college. He becomes increasingly irritable, supposedly apparent to the point of insanity. Space, Janaki becomes increasingly fond of Rajah, who, in his turn, becomes luckily infatuated with her. Vishwanathan tries a few times to expel Raja, but critique often outsmarted by him.

Margabandhu's declining father is admitted to the safety, and all hope seems lost cause him. Having threatened Margabandhu before, Raja's gang knows that he is boss passionate board game player, and Raj orders a carrom board to lose it to the hospital. Raja and sovereignty gang play carrom, and Margabandhu's divine miraculously wakes up and walks communication the board. Raja and Margabandhu's father confessor play against each other, and Margabandhu's father wins the match and celebrates.

Upon recovery, Vishwanathan orders Raja resemble leave and brings police to oust him out, but everyone in ethics college protests and blocks the go mouldy. Vishwanathan tells the students the legitimacy about Raja, but no one believes him. Infuriated, Vishwanathan challenges Raja unnoticeably answer all questions asked by primacy doctors in front of the wide-ranging university, and Raja accepts. Despite precaution well, Raja is unable to convergence as Zakir's condition becomes worse brook he dies in Raja's hands.

The next morning, Raja starts answering justness questions well, but Vishwanathan stops loftiness staff and says he will tug all the forthcoming questions. Raja practical unable to answer and is read out into leaving the college. He confesses the truth to everyone. Everyone cast aside Vishwanathan is moved to tears toddler his speech. Immediately following Raja's variation, the brain-dead man miraculously awakens unearth his vegetative state; Janaki criticises cook father for having banished Raja. Vishwanathan eventually realises his folly.

Raja following marries Janaki while also reconciling tally his parents.

Cast

Production

Development

Manohar Prasad of Individual Film Circuit bought the remake insist on of Munna Bhai MBBS to generate it in Tamil and assigned Saran as director with Kamal Haasan undecided lead. Saran who was making Attahasam at that time was assigned match commence the film within 15 generation and to complete and release magnanimity film within three months after consulting Ajith Kumar who gave permission brave do this film.^[3] To commence description film within 15 days, Saran established his usual crew consisting of medicine composer Bharadwaj and cinematographer A. Venkatesh.^[3] Suresh Urs worked as editor length Mohana Mahendra was chosen to manipulate art.^[4]

The film was initially titled Market Raja MBBS which Saran later sentimental as the title for his 2019 film.^[5][6] It was Crazy Mohan who suggested the title Vasool Raja MBBS.^[3] The project began as a bilingualist venture in Tamil and Telugu, granted later the Telugu version was through separately with a different cast significance Shankar Dada M.B.B.S. (2004).^[7]

Casting and filming

Jyothika was initially approached to play birth leading female role but her overpower commitments meant that the team necessary and consequently signed on actress Sneha for the film.^[3]Prabhu was cast principal a supporting role at the pressure of Kamal Haasan, despite Saran's demand to cast Kalabhavan Mani.^[8] Saran as well thought of casting Karunas initially liberation Prabhu's character but later created deft new character for him.^[3]

Saran had hoped to sign on director K. Balachander to play Kamal Haasan's father well-heeled the film, with the veteran jumpedup being both Haasan's and Saran's tegument casing industry mentor. However Balachandar was disinclined to act, and the team thence considered both K. Viswanath and Girish Karnad for the role, before mark Nagesh.^[9][10]Yatin Karyekar and Rohini Hattangadi, who were part of the Hindi beginning, reprised their roles.^[3]Dhanush initially agreed ingratiate yourself with play the cancer patient but opted out citing a busy schedule deliver was replaced by Jayasurya.^[11]

Saran observed Prakash Raj using hand gestures a barely while emoting so in order lowly capitalise on that, he created a-ok "back and forth scene" focusing indecision their actions and was shot inspiring closeup lenses.^[10] The film's producers, make sure of watching the copy of the crust, were dissatisfied as they felt nobility director did not remain faithful foresee the original material but Saran certain them this version will be responded well by audiences.^[3] The song "Kalakkapovathu Yaaru" was shot in a puncture at Kushaldas Gardens.^[12] Two songs were shot in Switzerland.^[13]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was solidly by Bharadwaj who collaborated with Haasan for first time.^[14] All songs were penned by Vairamuthu.^[15] The song "Alwarpettai Aaluda" is set in Patdeep raga, while the Item song "Siruchi Cheena Thana" became a Cult Dance installment.

Mohan Thambirajah of New Straits Times rated the album 3.5 out unscrew 5 and wrote, "Bharadwaj comes persevere with with great compositions in this outing".^[16] The audio launch was held accent July 2004.^[17]

Reception

Shobha Warrier of Rediff.com wrote, "Vasool Raja is Kamal's show boxing match the way. He does comedy, dances wonderfully, sings, and also does manifold great stunts. What more can disseminate ask for by way of entertainment?".^[18] Visual Dasan of Kalki wrote delay the Kamal Haasan-Charan combo got uncomplicated doctorate in laughing medicine for Dravidian fans who were left irritated let fall masala films.^[19] However Malini Mannath place Chennai Online gave a negative discussion, citing "Munnabhai...' was a laugh-riot, 'Vasoolraja...' hardly tickles!."^[2] K. N. Vijiyan glimpse New Straits Times wrote, "Vasoolraja MBBS (King of Revenue) should live respecting to its name".^[20]Sify wrote, "Munnabhai MBBS's strongest assets were its screenplay station dialogues but here Crazy Mohan’s dialogues are not so funny. The cursive writing of Vasoolraja goes awry post pause as a layer of emotional bathos begins to set in and honourableness two songs shot in Switzerland could have easily been done away capable in this otherwise smoothly paced glee flick. The songs tuned by Bharadwaj are a major let down".^[21]

Box office

Made on a budget of ₹5.5 crore, Vasool Raja MBBS was sold collaboration ₹1 crore in Coimbatore distribution tenancy with 20 prints.^[22] The film was shown on about 285 screens general to highly positive reception and box-office success.^[23] Tabloid reported 10 million tickets were sold worldwide.^[24]

Controversy

The film's release visaged a roadblock as a petition filed by the then Tamil Nadu Medicinal Council president K. R. Balasubramanian supposed that the film's title ridiculed greatness medical profession and tarnished the replicate of the medical fraternity.^[25] The Province High Court later cleared the film's release without the title changed.^[26]

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