The doctor from Oldham goes to Bollywood

By Arifa Akbar, Arts Correspondent Dr Mahesh Kumar is something of a local hero as the head of radiology at Pennine Acute Trust, which runs hospitals in Oldham, Rochdale, Bury and north Manchester. But to achieve international fame he has had to try something different – he has become a singing, dancing, murdering gangster. At least, he has for the purposes of a Bollywood movie. The thriller Accident premieres in London today, and will be released in America later this month, but it is already a smash hit in India. And that is partly thanks to Dr Kumar's decision to step away from the X-ray machines of his day job and head east in search of stardom. The doctor temporarily traded in the radiology rooms of north-west England to travel to Bangalore last October, when his friend, Ramesh Aravind, a successful Indian film director,... [read full story]