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A story of hope, dreams, and desperation for four individuals who are on the quest for their creative aspirations. The anthology explores the lives and emotional struggles of artists in a society that measures success in terms of materialist accomplishments.
Struck by tragedy, IPS aspirant Shikha ends up marrying a local confectioner Jyoti. Amid dire times, she defies the odds with her husband as the guiding light.
An early example of social realism that reached its height with 'Udayer Pathey' and more memorably with 'Chhinnamul', 'Doctor' was meant as a stringent critique of practices that were beginning to be deemed as persistant evils that plague society, namely superstitions, religious dogma and discrimination on the basis of caste. However, that would be a far too simplistic reading of the multiple thematic elements that tie together the narrative of 'Doctor'. The idea of caste based discrimination, violence and upper-caste hypocrisy is placed alongside the notions of generational conflict in a father-son relationship and the idea of a ever-widening generation gap especially in the historical and socio-political context of the film.
