REVIEW: AAGHAT (2010)
Producer: Mohan Damle, Sanjay Sathye, Shreeram Dandekar
Direction: Vikram Gokhale Story: Dr. Nitin Lavangare
Dialogues:Dr. Nitin Lavangare
Music:Narendra Bhide
Cast: Vikram Gokhale, Mukta Barve, Kadambari Kadam Desai, Suhas Joshi,
Deepa Shreeram,
Arun Nalawade, Madhav Abhyankar,
Aniket Vishwasrao, Nandini Jog, Smita
Tambe, Anant Jog,
Manoj Joshi, Dr. Amol Kolhe, Vidyadhar Joshi, Shashank Shende,
Surekha Kudachi, KIran Karmarkar
'Aaghaat' hits out at unethical
medical practice
Medical science has made tremendous
progress in the recent times with
advanced treatments available for all
ailments. Today, surgeries in hospitals
have become very common. But, the
common man who has complete faith in the doctor, is still kept in dark about the actual requirement of surgery for a
particular purpose. We have heard so
many stories appearing in the news,
where doctors and hospitals have
been made target by errant relatives of
patient over negligence during a surgery or operation. But, nothing can
be proved against any particular
doctor, as in many cases he gets the
benefit of doubt. However, new Marathi film ‘Aaghaat ’ goes beyond this benefit of doubt by
showing a face to face fight between
two doctors, where a junior doctor Dr.
Smita Deshmukh ( Mukta Barve ) takes on her senior Dr. Khurana ( Vikram Gokhale ) over his negligence in taking a decision during an operation, where
a 22 year old patient Sangeeta
Pradhan ( Kadambari Kadam ) is made to suffer. Dr. Khurana is a leading surgeon in a
well known private trust hospital,
where Dr. Smita Deshmukh is doing
her M.S. as a resident doctor. During
one such operation, Dr. Khurana gives
Dr. Smita her first chance to perform a surgery. But, when he tells her to
remove both the ovaries of the patient,
she refuses to obey his orders, as she
feels that the second ovary could be
saved, as preliminary reports were still
awaited. At the operation theatre, Dr. Khurana takes it as his insult and gets
the second ovary removed by Dr.
Smita’s colleague (Shashank Shende). Soon, the patient develops
complications and Dr. Khurana lands
into trouble, as Dr. Smita with the
support of patient’s family members openly challenges her superior. Dr. Khurana being the most influential
person, pressurizes the hospital
administration to sack Dr. Smita. But,
Dr. Smita like a true protagonist dares
to fight her own battle and tells the
administration to set up an inquiry commission. The hospital authorities
agree for the same as they fear about
Dr. Smita approaching the press. Even
the inquiry commission seems to be
going against her, when the film’s story takes a sudden twist in the
climax, with an unknown character
coming as a witness to her rescue. Dr.
Smita wins her battle against a biggest
giant in medicine field, without the
support of media and that is the real strength of her character. Mr. Vikram Gokhale makes his debut as a director through this film with a
sensational subject, which is so
relevant to the common man in
modern times. He has paid more
attention on the attitude of an
individual –the antagonist character, which he plays himself and the young
principled doctor, who does not forget
the oath she has taken to serve this
profession with service to humanity.
Ethics in medical profession is her
motto, based on which she finally wins her battle. ‘Aaghaat ’ does not expose the corruption in medical practice, but
it certainly hits out at unethical medical
practice. The film has a strong story written by
Dr. Nitin Lavangare with good
presentation of screenplay by Sameer
Vidhwans, supported by timely
dialogues penned by Sameer
Vidhwans and Kshitij Patwardhan. Camerawork and editing is up to the
mark and the background music is
appealing. This being a character
oriented film, more attention has been
paid on emotions of every artiste and
therefore you will find many well known talented artistes like Dr. Amol
Kolhe (playing a psychiatrist) , Aniket
Vishwasrao, (as Sangeeta ’s boy friend, who agrees to marry her in spite of
her ailment), Shashank Shende( as a
obedient resident doctor) , Smita Tambe (Playing Shashank’s wife), Suhas Joshi( as Dean of the Hospital), Anant Jog ( as a trustee), Vidyadhar
Joshi( as Hospital administrator), Arun Nalawade( as Pathologist), Madhav Abhyanka r ( as Sangeeta’s helpless father) and Kiran Karmarkar in a very
special role in the climax scene. In
short, they make a very good team for
the film’s success.
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