Doctors
has
soap
opera
level
of
plot
developments
that
veer
off
to
melodrama
and
struggle
to
keep
you
engaged,
observes
Mayur
Sanap.
The
first
thing
to
note
about
Doctors
is
that
this
is
not
a
medical
drama.
Director
Sahir
Raza,
along
with
his
writing
team
—
Shibani
Keshkamat,
Radhika
Anand,
Bharat
Misra
and
Siddharth
P
Malhotra
(of
Maharaj
fame,
who
also
serves
as
co-producer
here)
—
crafts
a
10-episode
drama
that
delves
into
personal
equations
and
motivations
set
in
a
hospital
backdrop
with
some
random
medical
procedures
and
emergencies
thrown
around
to
add
interest.
The
story
kicks
off
with
Dr
Nitiya
Vasu
(Harleen
Sethi)
entering
the
prestigious
Elizabeth
Blackwell
Medical
Centre
(EMC)
where
most
of
the
drama
takes
place.
She
is
a
new
resident
doctor
carrying
her
own
personal
agenda.
Nitiya
blames
EMC’s
star
neurosurgeon
Dr
Ishaan
Ahuja
(Sharad
Kelkar)
for
derailing
her
brother
Dr
Dhaval’s
(Aamir
Ali)
career
by
performing
a
wrong
surgery
on
his
right
hand,
which
leaves
his
career
stunted
as
a
surgeon.
Despite
her
grudge
against
Ishaan,
as
they
navigate
the
hospital’s
grim
realities,
Nitiya
begins
to
realise
her
opinion
was
wrong.
This
leads
to
an
unexpected
turn
in
their
dynamic.
For
a
show
that
starts
off
as
a
revenge
saga,
the
abrupt
turn
of
romance
overshadows
the
plot
and
characters
that
the
first
two
episodes
so
nicely
establish.
What
follows
thereafter
is
the
soap
opera
level
of
plot
developments
that
veer
off
to
melodrama
and
struggle
to
keep
you
engaged.
The
show
is
further
laced
with
an
array
of
characters
that
highlight
the
trials
and
tribulations
in
the
lives
of
these
medical
workers.
There’s
a
dorky
friend
Dr
Roy
(Vivaan
Shah),
an
ambitious
and
committed
Dr
Keyuri
(Niharika
Lyra
Dutt),
a
goofy
and
chatty
Dr
Ridhun
(Abhishekh
Khan),
Nahida
(Sarah
Hashmi),
and
a
sincere
Dr
Neil
(Vvansh
S
Sethi).
But
most
of
them
behave
less
as
professional
doctors
who
should
be
focused
more
on
their
job.
Instead,
they
tune
in
to
the
drama
that
is
going
around
the
hospital.
For
a
show
that
has
the
obvious
influence
of
Grey’s
Anatomy,
there
are
no
genuine
moral
dilemmas
or
emotional
confrontations
that
would
make
any
of
these
characters
stick.
Even
the
whole
hospital
set-up
looks
like
it
was
just
recently
visited
by
an
interior
decorator,
unlike
Mumbai
Diaries,
which
at
least
had
the
authentic
feel
to
its
world.
Sharad
Kelkar
looks
mostly
bored
as
he
plays
a
sardonic
Dr
Ishaan
whose
heightened
intelligence
leaves
him
with
little
patience
for
most
people
around
him.
Harleen
Sethi
is
a
tad
better
in
a
role
that
gives
her
a
vast
emotional
range
to
showcase.
She
is
especially
good
in
the
scenes
that
show
the
interesting
facets
of
the
patient-doctor
relationship.
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