Doctor Nagesh (tbc)
- Run time: 51 mins
- Language: Hindi
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 1st January 2004
- Starring: Not Known
- Directed by: Dominique Henry-Vincent Detours
Plot Synopsis
In the train station in Bombay, India an overcrowded train arrives. When looking at the flowing masses of people, it is impossible to guess which of these individuals will head in the direction of the examination room of Dr. Nagesh Shirgoppikar. Patients come from the various corners of India to see Dr. Nagesh, they all have the same problem - they are HIV positive and the majority do not have enough money for the expensive drugs, which could at least extend their lives and relieve the most difficult pain. Dr. Nagesh provides consultations and examinations for free. Patients, who do not have enough finances for the medicines, are placed in contact with local buisness man and philanthropist M. Rashid, who covers the cost of the most urgently needed medicines. The blunt style of this noteworthy documentary, which takes place almost entirely in the examination room of Dr. Nagesh, allows the power of the testimonies from the mouths of individual patients to come through. Their deepest fears, self delusions and simple hope impel them to meet this understanding man.