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{{Infobox film
| name = Vasool Raja MBBS
| image = Vasool Raja MBBS Poster.jpg
| director = [[Saran (director)|Saran]]
| producer = [[Gemini Film Circuit]]
| writer = [[Crazy Mohan]] (dialogues)
| screenplay =
| story = [[Rajkumar Hirani]]
| based_on = ''[[Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.]]'' by [[Rajkumar Hirani]]
| starring =[[Kamal Haasan]]
| music = [[Bharathwaj]]
| cinematography = [[A. Venkatesh (cinematographer)|A. Venkatesh]]
| editing = [[Suresh Urs]]
| studio = [[Gemini Film Circuit]]
| distributor = [[Raaj Kamal Films International]]
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2004|8|12}}
| runtime = 160 minutes
| country = India
| language = Tamil
}}

'''''Vasool Raja MBBS''''' ({{trans|Collection King MBBS}}) is a 2004 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[comedy-drama]] film directed by [[Saran (director)|Saran]]. It is a remake of the 2003 Hindi film ''[[Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.]]''. The film stars [[Kamal Haasan]] in title role, while [[Prabhu (actor)|Prabhu]], [[Sneha (actress)|Sneha]], [[Prakash Raj]], [[Nagesh]], [[Rohini Hattangadi]], [[Jayasurya]], [[Malavika (actress)|Malavika]], [[Crazy Mohan]] and [[Karunas]], plays supporting roles. The film's music was composed by [[Bharathwaj]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/9010.html |title=Munnabhai MBBS in Tamil — Tamil Movie News |publisher=IndiaGlitz |date=20 April 2004 |access-date=6 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/9084.html |title=Kamal in remake of 'Munnabhai MBBS' – Tamil Movie News |publisher=IndiaGlitz |date=29 May 2009|access-date=6 August 2012}}</ref>

== Plot ==
Rajaraman, nicknamed "Vasool Raja", is a local don in [[Chennai]] who makes a living by collecting money from people who refuse or dilly-dally in paying their debts to others(adithadi), with the help of his right-hand man Vatti. Given that his father Sriman Venkataraman had wished him to be a doctor, he creates the faux Venkataraman Charitable Hospital. which is named after his father and pretends to live in accordance with this wish whenever his father and mother Kasturi visit him in Chennai.

One year later, Raja's plan goes awry when Venkataraman meets an old acquaintance, Dr. Vishwanathan. The two men decide to get Raja married to Vishwanathan's daughter Dr. Janaki aka "Paapu", who was a childhood friend of Raja under that name. At this point, the truth about Raja is revealed. Vishwanathan insults Raja's parents and calls them "fools" for being ignorant of Raja's real life. Venkataraman and Kasturi, who are both aghast and heartbroken, leave Raja for their village.

Raja, in grief and despair, decides that the only way to redeem himself and gain revenge for the humiliation suffered by his father at the hands of the spiteful Vishwanathan is to become a doctor. He goes to a medical college to obtain an [[Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery#India|MBBS]] degree, the graduate medical degree in [[South Asia]].

With the help of Vatti and others, Raja gains admission to the SLR Institute of Medical Sciences by threatening Dr. Margabandhu, who is a faculty member of the college, where he again encounters Vishwanathan, who is the college dean. His success there becomes dependent upon the coerced help of Margabandhu. While Raja's skills as a medical doctor are minimal, he transforms those around him with the "Kattipudi Vaithiyam" ("hugging therapy"), a method of comfort taught to Raja by his mother, and the compassion he shows towards those in need. Despite the school's emphasis on mechanical, Cartesian, impersonal, often bureaucratic relationships between doctors and patients, Raja constantly seeks to impose a more empathetic, almost holistic, regimen. To this end, he defies all convention by treating a brain-dead man as if the man were able to perceive and understand normally; intimidating Dr. Kalidas into admitting and treating a suicide patient named Neelakandan; interacting on familiar but autocratic terms with patients; humiliating school bullies; effusively thanking a hitherto-underappreciated cleaner; helping a terminally ill cancer patient named Zakir; and encouraging the patients themselves to make changes in their lives so that they do not need pharmaceuticals or surgery.

Vishwanathan, who perceives all this as symptoms of [[Chaos (cosmogony)|chaos]], is unable to prevent it from expanding and gaining ground at his college. He becomes increasingly irritable, almost to the point of insanity. Repeatedly, this near-[[dementia]] is shown when he receives unwelcome tidings and begins laughing in a way that implies that he has gone mad. This behavior is explained early on as an attempt to practice [[laughter therapy]], an attempt that seems to have backfired. Vishwanathan's laughing serves more to convey his anger than diffuse it. Meanwhile, Janaki becomes increasingly fond of Raja, who, in his turn, becomes unreservedly infatuated with her. Some comedy appears here because Raja is unaware that Janaki and his childhood friend "Paapu" are one and the same; an ignorance that Janaki hilariously exploits. Vishwanathan tries several times to expel Raja, but is often thwarted by Raja's wit or the affection with which the others at the college regard Raja, having gained superior self-esteem by his methods.

Eventually, Raja is shamed into leaving the college: His [[guilt (emotion)|guilt]] for not being able to help Zakir gets the better of him. In the moments immediately following Raja's departure, the bedridden man miraculously awakens from his [[vegetative state]]; at this point, Janaki gives a heartfelt speech wherein she criticizes her father for having banished Raja, saying that to do so is to banish hope, compassion, love, happiness, etc. from the college. Vishwanathan eventually realizes his folly.

Raja later marries Janaki, learning for the first time that she is "Paapu", while also reconciling with his parents.

== Cast ==
{{colbegin}}
*[[Kamal Haasan]] as Rajaraman Venkatraman (alias ''"Vasool Raja"'')
*[[Prabhu (actor)|Prabhu]] as Vatti
*[[Sneha (actress)|Sneha]] as Janaki Vishwanathan (alias ''"Paapu"'')
*[[Prakash Raj]] as Dr. Vishwanathan<ref name="crazy">{{Cite web |date=10 June 2020 |title=Crazy Mohan could laugh, and make us laugh: Prakash Raj on the first death anniversary of the iconic comedian |url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/crazy-mohan-could-laugh-and-make-us-laugh-prakash-raj-on-the-first-death-anniversary-of-the-iconic-comedian/article31793494.ece |access-date=19 August 2020 |website=[[The Hindu]]}}</ref>
*[[Nagesh]] as Venkatraman
* [[Lakshmi (actress)|Lakshmi]] as Janaki's mother
*[[Rohini Hattangadi]] as Kasturi Venkatraman
*[[Crazy Mohan]] as Professor Margabandhu<ref name="crazy" />
*[[Jayasurya]] as Zakir<ref name="ns">{{Cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yqc9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=t3sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4587%2C1504481 |title=Another comic turn by Kamalhaasan |last=Vijiyan |first=K.N. |date= 23 August 2004 |work=[[New Straits Times]] |page=27}}</ref>
*[[Malavika (actress)|Malavika]] as Priya
*[[Karunas]] as Amit
*[[Ajay Rathnam]] as Medicine Professor
*[[Kavithalaya Krishnan]] as Surgery Professor
*[[Nithin Sathya]] as Neelakandan
*[[Chithra Lakshmanan]] as Dr. Kalidas
*[[Thalaivasal Vijay]] as Doctor
*[[Santhana Bharathi]] as Gangadharan
*[[Kaka Radhakrishnan]] as Margabandhu's father
*[[Madhan Bob]] as Mani Raja, Raja's client
*[[Vaiyapuri]] as Piles Patient
*[[E. Ramdoss]] as Ward Boy
*[[Karate Raja]] as Raja's sidekick
*[[Kadhal Sukumar]] as Raja's sidekick
*[[Sampath Ram]] as Raja's sidekick
*[[Meera Krishnan]] as Mani Raja's wife
*[[A. K. Veerasami]] as Hospital Cleaner
*[[Kaajal Pasupathi]] as Nurse
*Boys Rajan as Professor
* Mythili as Nurse
*[[Yatin Karyekar]] as Anand, the Coma Patient
*[[Scissor Manohar]]
*[[Ragasya]] as dancer in song "Cheena Thaana"
{{colend}}

== Production ==
The film was initially titled ''Market Raja MBBS''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/saran-gets-arav-and-keeps-his-title-market-raja-mbbs/articleshow/67365262.cms|title=Saran gets Arav and keeps his title 'Market Raja MBBS' - Times of India|website=The Times of India}}</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20050228123806/http://web.mid-day.com/entertainment/movies/2004/april/82036.htm</ref> The project began as a bilingual venture in Tamil and Telugu, though later the Telugu version was made separately with a different cast as ''[[Shankar Dada MBBS]]'' (2004).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20061015213435/http://www.chennaionline.com/film/Newlaunches/05vasool.asp</ref>

[[Jyothika]] was initially approached to play the leading female role but her busy in another film meant that the team sought and consequently signed on actress [[Sneha (actress)|Sneha]] for the film.<ref name="casting">{{Cite web |date=18 August 2020 |title=#16YearsofVasoolRaja |url=https://cinema.vikatan.com/tamil-cinema/director-saran-shares-his-experience-about-vasool-raja-mbbs-movie |access-date=19 August 2020 |website=[[Ananda Vikatan]]}}</ref> Prabhu was cast in a supporting role at the insistence of Kamal Haasan, despite Saran's desire to cast [[Kalabhavan Mani]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20040827072327/http://www.behindwoods.com/vasoolraja_replacements.html</ref>

Saran had hoped to sign on director [[K. Balachandar]] to play Kamal Haasan's father in the film, with the veteran director being both Kamal Haasan's and Saran's film industry mentor. However Balachandar was reluctant to act, and the team then considered both [[K. Viswanath]] and [[Girish Karnad]] for the role, before signing veteran actor [[Nagesh]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040620175106/http://chennaionline.com/reeltalk/06reeltalk11th.asp Reel Talk – Khushboo signs up Arjun]. Web.archive.org. Retrieved on 12 March 2016.</ref>

Actor [[Dhanush]] initially agreed to play a cameo role in the film but opted out citing a busy schedule and was replaced by Malayalam actor [[Jayasurya]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiaglitz.com/dhanush-to-act-in-kamals-film-tamil-news-9280|title=Dhanush to act in Kamal's film - Tamil News|date=25 May 2004|website=IndiaGlitz.com}}</ref>

Production on the film cost a total of {{Indian Rupees}}5.5 crore rupees.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/archive/|title=Archive News|website=The Hindu}}</ref>

== Soundtrack ==
{{Infobox album
| name = Vasool Raja MBBS
| type = Soundtrack
| artist = [[Bharadwaj (music director)|Bharadwaj]]
| Cover =
| alt =
| released = 2004
| recorded = 2004
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Soundtrack]]
| length = 28.62
| label = Hit Musics<br />Star Music<br />[[Ayngaran International|Ayngaran Music]]<br />An Ak Audio<br />Bayshore
| producer = [[Bharadwaj (music director)|Bharadwaj]]
| prev_title = [[Kadhal Dot Com]]
| prev_year = 2004
| next_title = [[Oru Murai Sollividu]]
| next_year = 2004
}}

The soundtrack was composed by [[Bharadwaj (music director)|Bharadwaj]], repeating his successful collaboration with director [[Saran (director)|Saran]]. All songs were penned by [[Vairamuthu]]. The [[New Straits Times]] rated it 3.5 out of 5 and wrote, "Bharadwaj comes up with great compositions in this outing. He introduces new singers Sathyan, Arjun, Donnan and Grace.<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 August 2004 |title=Energetic hip-hop |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gB0uAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vHsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1278%2C5284733 |access-date=19 August 2020 |website=[[New Straits Times]] |page=27}}</ref>

{{tracklist
| headline = Track list
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| total_length = 28:62
| title1 = Kalakapovathu Yaaru
| extra1 = [[Kamal Haasan]], [[Sathyan (singer)|Sathyan]], VNB
| length1 = 4:37
| title2 = Pathukulle Number
| extra2 = [[KK (singer)|KK]], [[Shreya Ghoshal]]
| length2 = 5:19
| title3 = Alwarpetai Aaluda
| extra3 = Kamal Haasan, VNB
| length3 = 5:13
| title5 = Sakalakala Doctor
| extra5 = [[Bharadwaj (music director)|Bharadwaj]], Arjun, Donan
| length5 = 4:31
| title4 = Kaddu Thirande Kidakinrathu
| extra4 = [[Hariharan (singer)|Hariharan]], [[Sadhana Sargam]]
| length4 = 4:14
| title6 = Cheena Thana (Siruchi)
| extra6 = [[Grace Karunas]]
| length6 = 4:38
}}

== Box office ==
Made on a budget of {{INR}}5.5 crore, ''Vasoolraja MBBS'' was sold for {{INR}}1 crore in Coimbatore distribution territory with 20 prints.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sify.com/movies/chandramukhi-first-sale-news-tamil-kkfvDWiddfbsi.html |title=Vasoolraja MBBS fetched 1 crore price in Coimbatore area |access-date=26 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026055051/http://www.sify.com/movies/chandramukhi-first-sale-news-tamil-kkfvDWiddfbsi.html |archive-date=26 October 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> The film was shown on about 285 screens worldwide to highly positive reception and box-office success.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://i49.tinypic.com/14mthlx.jpg|title=The boss, no doubt|work=[[Business Today (business magazine)|Business Today]]|author=Krishna Gopalan|date=29 July 2007|access-date=25 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606140544/http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/the-boss,-no-doubt/1/267.html|archive-date=6 June 2014 }}</ref> Tabloid reported 10 million tickets were sold worldwide.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120220002728/http://www.thehindujobs.com/thehindu/mp/2004/09/27/stories/2004092703100301.htm No stopping him]. ''The Hindu'' (27 September 2004)</ref>

== Controversy ==
The film faced controversy as the petition filed by Tamil Nadu Medical Council president K R Balasubramanian stated that the film's title ridiculed the medical profession and tarnished the image of the medical fraternity. Moreover, the film title is considered to be a mockery on the medical profession which would lower dignity of the medical fraternity in eyes of public.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/10001.html |title=HC stays release of 'Vasoolraja, MBBS' – Tamil Movie News |publisher=Indiaglitz |date=27 July 2004 |access-date=11 June 2013}}</ref>

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|id=0423470}}

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