chhotahazri

Hindi: chhoti haziri, vulg. hazri, 'little breakfast'; refreshment taken in the early morning, before or after the morning exercise. (Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, 1994 [1886])

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Showing posts with label doctors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doctors. Show all posts
1 November 2020

A Portrait of the Doctor as an Angry Young Man

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My Mirror column: the seventh in my series on Indian films about doctors. What drives doctors to frustration in our cinema, and has that cha...
25 October 2020

The doctor as sufferer

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My Mirror column, sixth in my series on films about doctors: Based on AJ Cronin’s famous 1937 novel The Citadel , Vijay Anand’s medical melo...
19 October 2020

How to treat a doctor

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My Mirror column:  As part of the ongoing series about doctors in our cinema, a look at humanitarianism and humility in Hrishikesh Mukherje...

The Doctor as Anti-Hero

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My Mirror column (this is the fourth piece in my series on doctors in our films): Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Bemisal (1982) can be viewed a...
6 October 2020

The people versus science

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A respected doctor becomes the target of public anger in the uncannily resonant  Ganashatru , Satyajit Ray’s 1989 take on the classic Ibsen ...

Out of syllabus

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My Mirror column, the second in a series on films about doctors: Ek Doctor Ki Maut 's questions about the life of science seem even more...

The medical missionary

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My Mirror column, the first in a series on films about doctors: V Shantaram’s 1946 film about the legendary Dr Dwarkanath Kotnis sheds an od...
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