Ek Doctor Ki Toll

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Movie
Original title Ek Doctor Ki Toll
Country of production India
original language Hindi
Publishing year 1990
length 133 minutes
Rod
Director Tapan Sinha
script Tapan Sinha
production National Film Development Corporation
music Tapan Sinha
camera Soumendu Roy
cut Subodh Roy
occupation

Ek Doctor Ki Maut ( Hindi : एक डॉक्टर की मौत ek ḍȏkṭar kī maut ; translated: The Death of a Doctor ) is a Hindi film by Tapan Sinha from 1990.

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Dr. Deepankar Roy is a doctor in a state hospital and has set up a private laboratory at home, where, to the annoyance of his wife Seema, he spends nights experimenting to research a vaccine against leprosy . She feels neglected and is even considering a breakup. But after years of hard work, Dr. Roy having made a breakthrough. Science journalist Amulya persuades Dr. Roy to make his research public. The news spreads quickly in the media. Seema is proud of her husband after reading the message in the Amrita Bazar Patrika . His college friend Dr. Arijit Sen, a doctor with a successful private practice, pays him tribute and he receives support from his mentor, the microbiologist Dr. Kundu.

Because of the long incubation period of leprosy, Dr. Roy for a vaccination during pregnancy that would give the child lifelong immunity . In particular that of Dr. Roy observed possible side effects of a sterility cure is attracting public and medical interest. Instead of accepting the discovery as a major step in medicine, Dr. Roy just their skepticism. Gynecologists believe that this vaccine can lead to infertility in women. Dr. Roy is led by the director of the health department Dr. Khastagir is harassed because the influential gynecologists Dr. Ramanand Chatterjee and Dr. Prashant Mullick put pressure on. The situation escalates when the hot-headed Dr. Roy described the boss's arguments as unscientific and insulted him in his office. Medical students incited by the gynecologists invite Dr. Roy for a lecture just to show him off.

In the meantime, Dr. Kundu reported the findings to the John Anderson Foundation in London. Because of disobedient behavior, Dr. Roy is transferred to a remote village where he can no longer work on his research or complete his records. The response letter from the John Anderson Foundation with an invitation to Dr. Roy suppresses Dr. Khastagir, but they send Dr. Emily Bernard to Dr. Roy goes to the village so that she can go through the documents.

Thanks to the advocacy of Dr. Sen comes Dr. Roy back to Calcutta. Dr. But only send Roy after the approval of a committee of experts. The committee is a farce made up of two gynecologists, u. a. Dr. Ramanand Chatterjee, and two even more incompetent representatives from leprosy institutions. Microbiologists Dr. Roy's work are not included. Dr. Roy gives up because of the resistance and lack of support. A short time later, two Americans develop the same vaccine and receive great recognition and merit for what Dr. Roy invented method. This leads him to kill all of his experimental animals. Dr. Kundu brings Dr. Roy received an invitation from Dr. Bernard to work at a laboratory in Chicago. The last shot is a plane taking off.

background

Tapan Sinha wrote the script and the dialogues based on the story Abhimanyu by the Bengali author Ramapada Chowdhury and was inspired by the fate of the Bengali doctor Subhash Mukhopadhyay . In 1978 he carried out the first artificial insemination in India.

Art Director Ashoke Bose was responsible for setting the film . The costumes were designed by Arundhati Devi . The recordings were made in " New Theaters Studio 1"

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  1. ↑ after film credits. In IMDb Vanraj Bhatia is wrongly named as "music director", which has been widely copied on the Internet. Also in the filmography of Bhatia in the Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema emerged Ek Doctor Ki Maut not occur.
  2. ↑ Spelling as in the newspaper report of the discovery of the vaccine shown in the film
  3. ↑ http://santonu.blogspot.com/2006/05/ek-doctor-ki-maut.html
  4. ↑ Subhash Mukhopadhyay - the unlucky doctor behind India's first Test-tube baby from October 4, 2010
  5. ↑ Honor fails to cheer doctor's wife in The Times of India, October 14, 2003