Product Details

• Actors: Arshad Warsi, Boman Irani, Gracy Singh, Jimmy Sheirgill, Rohini Hattangadi
• Directors: Rajkumar Hirani?
• Writers: Abbas Tyrewala, Lajan Joseph, Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra
• Producers: Vidhu Vinod Chopra?
• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Eros Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: September 22, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000IZJRJC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #126,935 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Munna Bhai M.B.B.S." visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OUTSTANDING, October 26, 2006

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Harkanwar Anand (New York, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mumma Bhai M.B.B.S. (DVD)

What happened here? People weren't expecting much from this film but it somehow managed to be the movie that changed Sanjay Dutt's life yet again. This film is funny, uplifting and brings tears to the eyes too. Tell me one film that does all that? It touches your heart, breaks it, wins it and owns it. It was heartening to see Sunil Dutt act with his son. Boman Irani is superb as a bald professor. Gracy Singh is loveable. Easily one of the top 20 films I've seen in Bollywood.

My Rating - 9.4/10

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pops, this time the queen is mine, November 24, 2007

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Andy Orrock (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (DVD)

Like most Bollywood products, watching this movie requires a large investment of your time (2 hrs 30 mins+). It's well worth it. There's wonderful character development here. As a result, we see and believe Sanjay Dutt's "Munna Bhai" as a hulking, swaggering 'brother gangster' who is also capable of great acts of passion and caring. Dispensing 'magic hugs' and fully engaging _everyone_ regardless of their station in life, Dutt's character sets out on a circuitous and indescribable path from gangster to doctor.

For Dutt, the gangster role here is a case of art imitating life (thank you, Harkanwar Anand, for your review which encouraged me to look up the details of Dutt's life...wow). He's got great support from some wonderful castmates. I loved Boman Irani's performance as Dr. J. C. Asthana. He's brilliant - alternatively stern and commanding, then broadly comedic. Whether it's the translation or not, he also delivers some great officious lines like delivering Dutt his "rustication letter." That sent me scrambling to the dictionary. Excellent.

Kudos also to Arshad Warsi for his portrayal of Munna Bhai's henchman 'Circuit.' Whether musically menacing shakedown victims with a switchblade or listening to Dutt unload his dreams and fears on the shore each night, his portrayal adds rich layers to Dutt's character.

Don't give up early on this movie - the first five minutes is very slapstick-y, but after that it settles into a very good groove. Your appreciation for it will grow as the movie goes on. At the end, my wife and I looked at each other and expressed the same thought: "Wow, what a _great_ movie!" It will touch you.

[NOTE: I see reports that Mira Nair has bought the US rights to Munna Bhai and is planning a release called 'Gangster M.D.' starring Chris Tucker. Those reports were in 2006 (Nair herself is quoted). IMDB shows an entry in Nair's bio under the Producer tag that the project is 'in production' for 2008, but posters there seem skeptical that this project is on track.]

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Viewing for Newcomers to Hindi Cinema, April 6, 2011

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Traddles (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (DVD)

If you're not very familiar with Hindi cinema, the Munna Bhai films should be at the top of your list, as they introduce everything that is great about "bollywood" movies. Sanjay Dutt, who plays Munna, is a huge star in India, and this role reinvigorated his career after some rough patches in his life. His father in the film is played by his own real-life father, Sunil Dutt. The fact that Sunil Dutt would pass away two years after the release of this film lends even more poignancy to the scenes between father and son.

Munna is a lovable gangster - despite his rough profession, his heart is always in the right place and he's surrounded by a community of friends and employees who love and depend on him. Sanjay Dutt fits the role as if it were written just for him. Arshad Warsi is perfect as Munna's ever-loyal sidekick. Boman Irani is a delightful and hilarious character actor (his appearance in the second Munna Bhai film is even more hilarious than in this one).

The music is lovely and never over-the-top, and the playback singer Vinod Rathod (who sings Munna's lines) is the ideal voice for Sanjay Dutt. The film isn't simply comedy; it also offers a social critique of both the education and health care system in India. It might remind American audiences of the movie "Patch Adams", except this one is much better.

There are some aspects which non-Indian audiences might find tricky. Some of the comedy is based on language - Munna and his friends speak a sort of low-brow slang - which can't come through in the subtitles very well. Also, the constant references to "bro" (the translation for "bhai", as in Munna Bhai) might seem odd to English speakers, but that's because we don't use the word "brother" in the same way that it's used in Hindi. There are certain catchphrases (like Munna and Circuit's repeated "no tension!") which might not be as funny if you don't pick up on them in the spoken dialogue.