Censor Gabbar is back’s scenes that portrays doctors in a poor taste, demands IMA
“When the heroine Shruthi is hit by a scooter, doctors at Patil Hospital insist on expensive tests though she is not badly injured. The hero, Aditya sets out to expose how helpless patients and their families are fleeced and often, inhumanly treated.”
Then starts the most instigating part of the film. The punch line of the film is “Naam villain ka; Kaam hero ka” but it has also succeed in adding naming doctors as villains.
“The hero then approaches a poor woman mourning her deceased husband in the civil hospital nearby. He checks in her husband as a patient to Patil Hospital. The hospital tries to swindle money out of him by pretending to treat the dead man, making Aditya pay for tests and medicines. Aditya then shows them the death certificate, which proves they knowingly, admitted a dead man.”
The Indian Medical Association (IMA), representing over 2,50,000 doctors from across the country, has written to Censor Board of Film Certification (CBFC) chairman Pahlaj Nihalani, Health Minister JP Nadda and the I&B ministry for removing this scene, which depicts a “derogatory” image of doctors and has the potential to even instigate violence against them.
Doctors have threatened to take to the streets if the government doesn’t ban Sanjay Bhansali’s ‘Gabbar is Back’ until the controversial scene portraying doctors in bad light is removed.
The IMA letter said,
“The movie is a total instigation of the general public against the medical profession. With violence against doctors on the rise, such unjustified messages through the movie will only add fuel to the fire”
An ongoing study recently revealed that over 75% of doctors across the country have faced at least some form of violence. The actual scenario is predicted to be much worse as many incidents of violence go unreported. Especially at a time like this, the movie develops mistrust in patients. Hence, the medical fraternity is against it.
IMA secretary general KK Aggarwal said to TOI,
“Such comments will harm the faith and trust that patients place on doctors in times of distress and this trust is very important in the doctor -patient relationship.”
