The Indian Medical Association has written to the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, demanding a review of Sunny Deol’s film Surya: Ant Se Aarambh Tak over scenes it says demean the medical profession. The doctors’ body wants the content examined and, if necessary, banned or subjected to other appropriate action.

The film is set to hit theatres on November 20. Its latest teaser has drawn the storm, and the reaction has been fast and loud. The IMA’s complaint is specific. It says the visuals insult the medical profession and, most seriously, appear to defend violence against doctors, nurses and hospital staff.

That accusation strikes at a sore point. Attacks on healthcare workers have long been a concern for the medical community. A film that seems to make such violence look acceptable, even understandable, is a different matter from a film that simply features a hospital or a doctor on screen.

The IMA was careful to separate its objection from the film’s broader theme. According to the report, the association said questioning corruption and negligence in the medical sector is not wrong. Those who commit wrongdoing, it said, must face legal action. The problem, in its view, is the portrayal of the entire medical system as corrupt or wrong.

Questioning corruption and negligence in the medical field is not wrong, and those who commit mistakes must face legal action.

That distinction matters. Filmmakers have wide room to tell stories about broken systems and bad actors. Doctors’ bodies, however, argue that when a film paints a whole profession as the villain, the damage spreads beyond the screen. The IMA warned that such depiction could increase public hostility toward medical staff in society.

For a community already dealing with tension in hospitals, that warning carries weight. Medical workers often work long shifts under pressure, and public anger toward them can turn into real confrontation. The association’s argument is that cinema reaches millions of people and shapes how they see those who treat them.

The film’s makers have not been quoted in the material available to this report. Nothing in the reporting suggests a response has been issued. The IMA’s letter now puts the ball in the government’s court. The ministry will decide whether the teaser or the finished film needs review, and whether any changes or further steps follow.

Fans have been waiting for Sunny Deol’s return to big-screen action, and the film was already on many watchlists. The controversy now means the conversation is no longer only about the film’s stars or its release date. It is about where creative freedom ends and where responsibility to a vulnerable profession begins.

The coming weeks will show whether the IMA’s demand gains traction. If the ministry steps in, the film could face cuts, edits or a formal review before its November 20 date. If not, the row may fade into a sharp debate over how Indian cinema portrays doctors, and whether that portrayal feeds the very violence the medical community says it fears.