Najangalude Kochu Doctor
1989 film by Balachandra Menon
Najangalude Kochu Doctor is a 1989 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Balachandra Menon. The film stars Srividya, Thilakan, Balachandra Menon and Revathy in the lead roles. The film has musical score by Darsan Raman.
Plot
The movie opens with Revathi coming with his son to visit Balachandra Menon's house where only his grandmother Sukumari lives now. Menon's son, during the stay at his house, asks Sukumari who is his father and the movie cuts to the flashback. Menon plays the young grandson of Sukumari who was returned from UK after completing his postgraduate medical degree. He is an easygoing and lazy person who does not like to work in their family hospital and instead hangs out at his friend Nedumudi Venu's house which Sukumari doesn't approve since he is a working-class person who fishes for a living. Menon helps arranging ornaments for Venu's sister Parvathi's marriage while one day she faints at her house and is diagnosed of advanced lung cancer. She eventually succumbs to death at Menon's hospital which drives Venu into depression, and he leaves the place. Menon is also depressed at the turn of events and wishes to leave the place briefly to practice at any far-off village.
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