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Well-Known Bombay Surgeon Speaks
On Films !
Dr. Moolgavkar Makes His Own Films !
(By. Our Special^Correspondent)
I have taken more than 15,000 feet of 16 mm. film, both silent and talkie, out of which more than half is devoted to medical subjects the rest being of the various places I have visited. I must confess that the talkie has not always been a success. The medical pictures were taken with the idea either of illustrating diseases or of helping at my lectures. The silent pictures require a lot of time titling them but I hope to complete that part when I retire from active work", observed Dr. S. R. Moolgavkar, Bombay's well-known surgeon in the course of a nice talk he gave me on films.
When I asked him whether he believed in the usefulness of the cinema in helping education, he said that he has always been a staunch believer in the usefulness of the cinema in carrying home and impressing facts and details in all branches of teaching both in the school and in the college. For social
uplift and for pointing out and adjusting social defects there is nothing to touch the cinema. In medical work a large number of selected cases can be made available for facilitating the study of diseases, in fact many more than a student would see in the normal course of his instruction. Time is no barrier to the cinema. A rare case taken ten years before can be shown again and again long after the death of the patient. A diseased gait can be studied in all its detail by adding a slow motion picture to the ordinary picture of the gait. Operations can be studied in detail and all important points emphasized both in the actual picture and in interpellated diagram. Bacteriology and pathological (diseased structure) processes can be studied with macroscopical and microscopical specimens as well as by diagrams and cartoon pictures incorporated in the film. What applies to medicine must
Dr. S. R. Moolgavkar, F.R.C.S., a Surgeon, but a film enthusiast.
also apply to other subjects except perhaps to only one and that is literature.
"This fact has been recognised all over the civilised world and in most countries, not particularly in America, there are available for educational institutes educational films of all kinds either free or at a nominal hire. Unfortunately in this country this work has not been seriously taken up. Cine photography has reached a high degree of excellence in our country and there is no reason whatsoever why useful films could not be produced provided they are well directed and properly planned."
Dr. Moolgavkar is a modest man. He speaks with a soft, soothing voice and even in your first meeting with him, you feel as if you are in the presence of an old friend. I began with asking him whether he was very fond of films. I had heard that he was a film-a-day film fan. He replied without hesitation, "Yes, I am quite fond of pictures and I go to see them whenever possible. I do so, however, just to entertain myself, to forget the day's routine and the little worries. A surgeon and medical practitioner has to spend much of his time with people who have physical ailments, and who are often in a serious condition. Even if a doctor has no worries of his own,
Maya Bannerjee and Leela Desai team together in "Vichar", a social picture
of Shree Films.
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