Shwaas

While the film sometimes plays like an hour TV medical drama padded to reach feature length, Sawant achieves touching, naturalistic performances from a fine ensemble cast.

An old-fashioned soaper that will please or not, depending on a viewer's tolerance for schmaltz.

The simplicity of the tale becomes a bit tedious.

Takes a potential hot-button premise--the callous indifference of the Indian medical bureaucracy toward the lower classes--and dramatizes it in the most shameless way possible.