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NRI UK doctor's movie ‘Bhavishya will release soon

 

London, July 15, 2006
Karan Singh
NRI press

NRI doctor Nikhil Kaushik, a consultant ophthalmologist, of Wrexham Maelor Hospital in North Wales, UK has written a script of movie "Bhavishya - The Future" and it is to be shot in the hospital where he works, his own house, some scenes (local doctors involved) in New Delhi and Haridwar , in Uttaranchal. It is scheduled for release in end of August

Bhavishya movie revolves around a young couple, both doctors, who meet and work in the backdrop of their profession. The film explores issues concerning medical migration.

Dr. Kaushik said, "It occurred to me that a film like this may be more authentic if the actors came from within the profession, and that is how I set about casting the characters for my film. Any one who plays a doctor on screen is a real doctor. The script has aspects of a NRI doctors's life, and depicts the day to day life of Indian doctors in the UK, their personal fears, family and social issues as they really are."

"I have always had an interest in arts and media, I have acted and directed many stage plays., also worked as a Radio Announcer for the Delhi Station of All India Radio and BBC Radio Manchester. I have also acted in Plays for Delhi TV, during my college days in Delhi," says Kaushik.

I graduated from Maulana Azad Medical College and came to Britain in 1977 and has been in Wrexham since 1987. "As a doctor I have often felt that the medical profession is not accurately presented. Doctors are either depicted as gods or corrupt people only interested in money. So I wanted to put across reality of a doctors' life, particularly of young doctors of today who have so much expectations placed upon them

Saeed Jafferey was very enthusiastic about this idea and he features in this film too. But there are professional actors too in this film including the well-known Kimti Anand. However the doctors have also performed so well that it will be difficult for viewers to separate the professionals from the new comers, says Kaushik.

The Future is a love story wrapped up in music and dance. Lyrics for two of the six songs have been penned by Mr Kaushik himself. It includes songs in typical Bollywood style and features doctors from real life in Britain and India.

The leading pair is Akansha Tyagi and Vikrant Gautam) both Medical Students at the Manchester Medical School. Dr Rob Lister who is a Consultant Dermatologist, Dr Bidyut Kumar a Consultant Gynaecologist, Dr Alasdair Robertson an ENT surgeon and several other doctors feature in the film

For the Indian sequences also we have doctors such as Dr. Harish Bhalla, a senior physician in New Delhi, ad Dr Renuka Kaul-Nigam another doctor working with the ESI, in Delhi.

Saeed Jaffrey, known for his roles in films including A Passage to India and My Beautiful Laundrette, will be taking part in the party scene with some "health-related messages"

The film also looks at India from the eyes of young generation of British Indians, and tells what is so attractive about India to the NRI kinds.

One journal added that Kaushik hopes to hold the film's 'world premiere' in the town where he lives and works, at the end of August. He said, "Films have been a passion of mine. There are a lot of dramas based on hospitals, which, by and large, focus on arguments about hospital resources and fighting between managers and doctors.

It is estimated that Dr. Kaushik has spent 100 000 pounds on the film and he says: "Making the money back is not an issue. I just wanted to do it."

 



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