Mike McCahill 

Dr Cabbie review – crude comedy of educated Indians abroad

A newly qualified doctor moves from Delhi to Canada, and ends up dispensing treatment in a cab. But he doesn’t tickle Mike McCahill’s funny bone
  
  

Dr Cabbie vinay virmani
Vinay Virmani as the doctor turned cab driver in Dr Cabbie. Photograph: George Kraychyk Photograph: George Kraychyk/PR

Produced by Bollywood megastar Salman Khan, this shambolic East-meets-West proposition boils down its potentially dramatic set-up – just-qualified Delhi medic arrives in Canada, winds up driving a big yellow surgery – to a confounding mix of crude soap and unreconstructed smut: you abandon hope the minute someone has to swallow a condom and pretend it’s bubblegum. The slipshod tone is set by an early, wacky near-miscarriage (“Push the baby back in!”) and sustained into a final act that sees the waitress love interest turn lawyer to defend our hero from the racist politico whose child she’s been carrying. This nonsense isn’t worth the fare.

 

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