Doctor (2021) on Netflix
Army doctor Varun's wedding to Padmini is called off, and then her niece Chinnu disappears. With the police making little progress, Varun turns to a drastic plan of his own.
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- IMDb7.4/1022,085 votes
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Plot summary
Varun serves as a doctor in the Indian Army Medical Corps. Returning from a mission, he learns that Padmini, his fiancée, has canceled their wedding, telling him he is emotionally distant. As Varun prepares to leave, Padmini's family discovers that her niece Chinnu has gone missing, and the police put the low-ranking officer Bhagat on the family's phone lines. Unhappy with how the search is going, Varun decides the case needs a bigger investigation and kidnaps the assistant commissioner's daughter to force one. The plan works: the police round up major criminals tied to child kidnapping, and Varun focuses on three men who were near Chinnu's school when she vanished.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Doctor (2021)
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- The film's first single, "Chellamma", was composed during the lockdown and penned by star Sivakarthikeyan with lines about TikTok being banned in India; sung by Anirudh and Jonita Gandhi, it went viral on release, reaching 139 million views by April 2025.
- Filming on Doctor was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic and India's lockdown with 80% of the shoot completed by May 2020, and when it resumed on 25 September a special team was assigned to check that the cast and crew followed COVID-19 protocols.
- Doctor collected ₹100 crore in 25 days, becoming the first Sivakarthikeyan film to reach that mark at the box office.
