Vasool Raja MBBS

Vasool Raja MBBS
Directed by	Saran
Produced by	Gemini Film Circuit
Written by	Vidhu Vinod Chopra Rajkumar Hirani Crazy Mohan (dialogues )
Starring	Kamal Haasan Prabhu Sneha Prakash Raj Jayasurya Nagesh Karunas Rohini Hattangadi Malavika Nithin Sathya
Music by	Bharadwaj
Cinematography	A. Venkatesh
Edited by	Suresh Urs
Production company	Gemini Film Circuit
Distributed by	Raaj Kamal Films International
Release date	12 August 2004
Running time	160 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Vasool Raja MBBS (English: Collection King MBBS) is a 2004 Tamil comedy film starring Kamal Haasan and directed by Saran. This film is a remake of Hindi film Munnabhai MBBS, which was inspired by the English movie Patch Adams released back in 1998. It was the first Kamal film to beat the record set by Indian eight years earlier. The rest of the cast includes Prakash Raj, Prabhu, Sneha, Jayasurya, Nagesh, Malavika and Karunas. The film's music was composed by Bharadwaj.

Rajaraman, nicknamed "Vasool Raja" (Kamal Haasan) is a local don in Chennai, making a living by collecting money from people who refuse or dilly-dally in paying their debts to others, with the help of his right hand man Vaddi (Prabhu Ganesan). Given that his father had wished him to be a doctor, he creates the faux Venkataraman Charitable Hospital (named after his father) and pretends to live in accordance with this wish whenever his father (Nagesh) and mother Kasturi (Rohini Hattangadi) visit him in Chennai.

One year, however, Raja's plan goes awry when his father meets an old acquaintance, Dr. Vishwanathan (Prakash Raj) and the two men decide to get Raja married to Vishwanathan's daughter, Dr. Janaki "Paapu" (Sneha). At this point,the truth about Raja is revealed. Vishwanathan insults Raja's parents and calls them "fools" for being ignorant of Raja's real life. Raja's father and mother, aghast and heartbroken, leave for their village.