This story makes me sick.
The doctor who produced India’s first test tube baby 8 years before the officially recognized first (3 months after the first in the world was born) was hounded out and driven to suicide by the government.

Dr Mukherjee’s achievement in in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) was deliberately hushed up by the West Bengal government. They claim that he was hounded out of his laboratory, shunted to a medical college department where he was a fish out of water denied chances of attending scientific conferences abroad. For the same work, his classmate at Edinburgh University, Dr R.G Edwards, and Dr Patrick Stiptoe won international recognition.

His story has an eerie resemblence to the story of Ek Doctor Ki Maut. Any idea whether the film was based on the real story? In the film the doctor develops a vaccine for leprosy, but the other details are exactly the same.