Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003)

Original title

मुन्ना भाई एम बी बी एस

Directed by

Rajkumar Hirani

Genre

comedy film, comedy drama

Country

India

Runtime

2h 36m

Rated

12

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 369 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Mumbai gangster pretends to be a doctor to make his father proud. When a real doctor humiliates him, he enrolls at a medical college run by that same doctor and starts causing chaos.

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What happens

Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (translation: Munna brother M.B.B.S.) is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film written and directed by Rajkumar Hirani in his directorial debut and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra under the banner Vinod Chopra Films. It features Sunil Dutt in his final film appearance as the father to his real-life son, Sanjay Dutt, who stars as the titular character. Gracy Singh, Arshad Warsi, Boman Irani, Jimmy Sheirgill and Rohini Hattangadi play other roles. The first installment of the Munna Bhai film series, the film follows Munna Bhai, a don in the Mumbai underworld, trying to please his father by pretending to be a doctor, but when a doctor, Asthana (Irani), exposes his lies and tarnishes his father's honor, Munna enrolls in a medical college. Chaos ensues when Munna, upon finding that Asthana is the dean of the college, vows revenge, while also sparking a romance with a house doctor, Suman (Singh), unaware that she is his childhood friend and Asthana's daughter. Released on 18 December 2003, the film was a major critical and commercial success, and went on to win the 2004 National Film Award for Best Popular Film, and several Filmfare Awards, including the Best Film (Critics) and Best Screenplay. At the box office, it achieved a silver jubilee status (25-week run) being one of only eight Hindi films to have achieved this status since the year 2000. In its 26th week of release, the film could still be found playing on 300 screens throughout India. The film's release was also accompanied by a mobile video game based on the film by Indiagames. It was later followed with a sequel in 2006, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, with a third film currently in development as of 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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