Doctor (Tamil, 2021)

Comedy revels in the adrenaline rush and junk of a senseless action plot.

What made you term Nelson Dilipkumar a director to watch for its craft and not the star cast?

Comedy? Narration? Sensitive grip on behavioral analysis?

The picturesque timing of comedy offers us the glimpses of the talent of the director, Nelson Dilipkumar.

From the introduction of the characters to becoming a part of our beloved cinema backdrops- It takes one film and a few minutes into the movie. You will feel immersed in the awe of the last scene and the last and the last and soon, the movie finishes off one scene woven together into many. The movie follows the path right after it- Step by step.

A cinema portraying the characters of varied shades with each maneuvering its way and leaving a mark bigger than its allotted scope is justice done to the lifetime of anonymity and struggles of an artist. That’s your style of movie-making. That’s the style of movie making for the generations to come and long gone. That’s the style of movie making for anybody to fall back in love when art seems incomprehensible and entertainment screams like noise from the nostrils.

Plot

Doctor (2021) is a movie that sits as a textbook study for direction. There's a common fate of art in every work, across artists of different caliber, fields, and periods- The subject failing you but beauty shining through the corrupted soul or body.

A doctor (Sivakarthikeyan) undertakes a rescue operation. The team has weaklings from house help to small-time thugs. The comic narration elevates the atmosphere and binds the audience. The mental toughness of individuals narrated through hilarious adventures builds several immersive episodes within one big event. The rescue operation turns into an all-out war to save every single girl child.

The recognition of ‘Doctor’ is not it is a well-made movie. The genius lies in the foundation of the story where comedy plays as a driving force and the rescue operation works as the engine.

Art in Cinema

The movie ‘Doctor’ has a character of it own.

Not every hit movie has. When you finish off watching the movie, you have the vision (vision of the project) left with you.

A well-crafted work of art leaves haunting memories with us.

Nelson Dilipkumar created characters that have a franchise appeal to them.

The characters that have a standalone destiny written on their faces.

It is the vision and the style that sets directors apart from makers.

‘Doctor’ could have been an average project, but it is not because the vision turned it into an exclusive set of events where each character was apt as a piece of the puzzle, with equal weight and importance. You look at them as one collective unit. Long before that, you fancied the idea of every single participant.

An Insight into the Working Style of Nelson Dilipkumar

The class of comedy picked in the movie neutralizes the errors and misfits in the plot. Whatsoever little amount of favor you do in the second half proves an opportunity to build an understanding of the works of Nelson Dilipkumar (the previous and future ones).

The action takes place across the dialogues, comedy narrations, and social beings acting as hardcore criminals. The movie is a rare example of comedy trespassing into areas where nothing works except suitable timing, acute understanding of the craft, and sculpting every scene as if it is the final frontier.

Outweighing Social Image of the Hero Mentality

The movie wins at shattering the hollow definition of things- Family, love, justice, selfishness. I can overlook the selfishness part as it is too much to ask of the audience. The non-judgmental blow to the notions of

how love should be
how system works
how relationships should look like

Watch ‘Doctor’ for the love of commercial cinema. Watch ‘Doctor’ to see a comedy style you might have caught in some global cinema or some artistic representation.