A gangster sets out to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a doctor.
In India gangsters are called Bhai (brothers). One such Bhai is Munna, who is feared by everyone in Mumbai, a big city in India. He cons his village-based parents into believing that he is a doctor. He gets a shock when he finds out that they are coming to verify for themselves. So he transforms a rooming shanty house into a makeshift hospital, populated by patients, people he beats up. His parents arrive and are happy that their son is well-settled. They would like him to get married to a doctor's daughter. The marriage is arranged, but before the engagement, the bride's father finds out the truth about Munna and cancels the marriage. Munna's humiliated parents see the truth for themselves; hurt, they return home, leaving Munna with a strong desire to hurt the doctor--and force him to let his daughter marry him--even if it means getting admitted in the medical college--with forged documents!!.—Sumitra (corrected by Carrie)
Murli Prasad Sharma is a local goon in Mumbai popularly known as 'Munna bhai'. He has kept his real identity secret from his parents, who think that their son is a doctor. Munna's parents arrive in Mumbai for their annual visit and his father meets an old acquaintance Dr. Asthana by chance. They want to fix Munna's marriage with Dr. Asthana's daughter Suman "Chinky" Asthana. But Dr. Asthana comes to know about Munna's real identity, reveals it to his parents, and humiliates them. Heartbroken, they leave for their hometown. Munna swears revenge upon Dr. Asthana and embarks upon getting an admission in a medical college to become a doctor.—Soumitra
In India gangsters are called Bhai (brothers). One such Bhai is Shri Hari Prasad Sharma alias Munna, he is feared by everyone in Mumbai, a big city in India. Munna is a full-time vagabond and later cons his village-based parents into believing that he is a doctor, which they wanted him to become, finding him fulfilling there dreams, they decides to pay him a visit in order to verify for themselves that he is indeed a doctor. He gets a nasty shock when he hears they are coming, so he transforms a rooming shanty house into a makeshift hospital, populated by patients, people he beats up. His parents arrive and are pleased that their son is so well settled; they assure him success and bless him. They would like him to marry his father's friend Dr. Asthan's daughter. The marriage is arranged, but before the engagement, Dr. Asthana finds out the truth about Munna, reveals his true identity to his parents and the public, and cancels the marriage. Being humiliated by the public for Munna's deeds his parents are very much hurt and return to their home, leaving Munna with a strong desire to hurt the doctor--and force him to let his daughter marry him--even if it means getting admitted in the medical college--with forged documents which escalates the conflict to an insolvable extent.—gavin@[email protected]
Munna bhai (here gangster) has been lying to his parents over the years that he is a M.B.B.S doctor. His parents visit him, where they are bluffed. His parents take his invitation for marriage to a real Doctor's daughter where both of them are Doctor. This is when his parents find out their son is a gangster. Now Munna wants to take revenge, so he takes admission into best medical college of Mumbai. There he finds the ones who insulted and rejected his parents were present. Now he wants to marry the daughter of the doctor who rejected him, and he tries to find out about her. He creates a pleasant atmosphere for all the patients and doctors. He talks about jadoo ki jhapim which he learned from his mother. Dr. Asthana, who insulted his parents, still wants him out of his college. His daughter Chinki slowly falls for him. Others think of him as a magician who can cure anybody. He cures a parsi doctor's father, gives hope to a cancer patient, counsels a young man who tried to commit suicide, and cures a patient who according to medical knowledge had been considered incurable. After all this, his father finally accepts him and says "Tune to sabko jeena sikha diya." He marries Chinki and the movie ends on a positive note.—muvi-fan-73
Murli Prasad Sharma (Sanjay Dutt), nicknamed Munna Bhai is a goon. But he has principles and only uses his strengths and muscles to get justice to the unprotected.His father Hari Prasad Sharma (Sunil Dutt) had wished him to be a medical doctor, so he creates the faux Sri Hari Prasad Sharma Charitable Hospital, named after his father, and pretends to live in accordance with this wish whenever his father and mother Parvathi (Rohini Hattangadi) visit him in Mumbai.
One year later, however, Munna's plan goes awry when his father meets an old acquaintance, Dr. Jagdish Chandra Asthana (Boman Irani) and the two older men decide to betroth Munna to Asthana's daughter, "Chinki" (Gracy Singh). Asthana's maid tells him that Munna is not a doctor but a goon of Mumbai.At this point, Munna's cover is blown, and Asthana insults Munna's parents and calls them "fools" for being ignorant of Munna's real life. Hari and his wife Parvati, aghast and later heartbroken, leave for their village.
Munna, in grief and despair, decides that the only way to redeem himself and gain revenge for the humiliation suffered by his father at the hands of the spiteful Asthana is to become a doctor. He decides to go to a medical college to obtain an MBBS degree. With the help of his right-hand man Circuit (Arshad Warsi) and others, Munna "gains admission" to a medical college by using Dr. Rustam Pavri (Kurush Deboo), a faculty member of Imperial Institute of Medical Studies as a prop to write the premedical examinations. He again encounters Dr. Asthana in the same college, who is the dean. His success there becomes dependent upon the (coerced) help of Rustam, which includes situations such as cheating in the session exams (for which Munna again uses Rustam).
Although he has no medical skills, Munna transforms those around him with the "Jadoo Ki Jhappi" ("magical hug") - a method of comfort taught to Munna by his mother - and the compassion he shows towards those in need. Despite the school's emphasis on mechanical, Cartesian, impersonal and often bureaucratic relationships between doctors and patients, Munna constantly seeks to impose a more empathetic and almost holistic regimen around himself. He openly questions why critical patients are made to fill a form before treatment. He cures a young boy, who has twice tried to commit suicide, but making him realize that girls come and go and are not worth dying over.
Attempting to treat a brain-dead patient, Anand Banerjee (Yatin Karyekar), in his own empathetic and compassionate style, he defies all convention by interacting on familiar but autocratic terms with patients, humiliating school bullies, effusively thanking a hitherto under-appreciated janitor, and encouraging the patients themselves to make changes in their lives, so that they do not need drugs or surgery. When a doctor questions assigning a brain dead person like Anand, a full bed for 12 yrs (in a country which is short of hospitals), Munna gets Anand his own bed and starts spending more time with him.
Asthana, who perceives all this as symptoms of chaos, is unable to prevent it from expanding and gaining ground at his college. He becomes increasingly irrational, almost to the point of insanity. Repeatedly, this near dementia is shown when he receives unwelcome tidings, and he begins laughing in a way that implies that he has gone mad. This behavior is explained early on as an attempt to practice "laughter therapy", an attempt that seems to have backfired - Asthana's laughing serves more to convey his anger than diffuse it.
Meanwhile, the carefree Munna finds himself unreservedly infatuated with Dr. Suman, who, it turns out, is Asthana's daughter. Some comedy appears here, because Munna is unaware that Dr. Suman and his childhood friend "Chinki" are one and the same; an ignorance that Suman hilariously exploits to a point where he is bluffed into believing "Chinki" is not his type anymore (She introduces her half naked friend as Chinki to Munna at a club and Munna is totally turned off by her mannerisms), causing him to instead confess his feelings for Suman and abandon his personal vendetta against "Chinki" and Asthana.
Meanwhile, as he tries to fulfill the last wishes of a cancer patient, Zaheer (Jimmy Shergill), who is relieved by a gesture from Munna's side (Munna arranges a girl for Zaheer, who has cancer patient, and rues that he has never had sex in his life) that Asthana deems controversial for the college's discipline.Munna cures Rustam's dying father by his own methods (Rustam's father hasn't eaten for a week and is admitted to the hospital in a near death state. He loved carom and Munna uses that to infuse the zest for life in his heart), which earns him Rustam's respect and leads Zaheer to consider Munna an almost "divine" man. Asthana tries several times to expel Munna but is often thwarted by Munna's wit or the affection with which the others at the college, including, to some extent, Suman herself, regard Munna, having gained superior self-esteem by his methods.
Asthana keeps a challenge that Munna can stay in college only if he passes the exam under his supervision. Everyone accepts the challenge. During the preparation, Zaheer collapses to a worsening health and calls for Munna, asking him to save his life, but unfortunately much, he dies in Munna's arms.
Eventually, Munna is shamed into leaving the college: his guilt over not being able to help Zaheer gets the better of him; in the moments immediately following Munna's departure, Anand miraculously awakens from his vegetative state. Suman, at this point, realizes Munna as the miracle behind Anand's recovery and gives a heartfelt speech criticizing her father for having banished Munna, saying that to do so is to banish hope, compassion, love, and happiness from the college. Asthana eventually realizes his folly.
Hari and Parvati reconcile with Munna that night (saying that they are proud of what he has done), asking him to meet "Chinki"; when he goes to meet "Chinki" atop the terrace, he finds out that "Chinki" is in fact Suman herself.The medical college - under Rustam Pavri's management since Asthana's retirement - begins to imitate Munna's radical methods of treatment.Munna and Suman open a hospital in Munna's home village, where they implement Munna's ideas daily, while Asthana is revealed to have picked up Munna's lingo there as the head doctor, while also implementing the fun-oriented methods used by Munna earlier. This, in addition to the birth of their off-springs, earns Munna the nickname "Munnabhai - M.B.B.S. - Miya Biwi Bachhon Samet" (literally "Husband Wife with Children") even though he does not become a doctor. His sidekick Circuit marries and has a son, who is nicknamed "Short Circuit". As the film concludes, Anand, restored to normal mental health, narrates the story to children as he is about to leave for Kolkata.
