MUMBAI: The release date of Vikram Bhatt‘s Ankur Arora Murder Case has been pushed back by a week. The film is now set to release on 24 May. The film addresses the flaws in the medical profession and stars K K Menon in the leading role of an eminent surgeon.

The film, written by Bhatt and directed by Suhail Tatari, takes up an urgent and disturbing issue of death during surgery and is based on a real-life incident where a boy dies on the operation table due to medical negligence

Other actors in the film include Tisca Chopra, Paoli Dam and Arjun Mathur.

Bhatt said, "I am aiming at making a realistic drama on one of middle class Indian‘s biggest fears- death in a hospital. I‘m deeply disturbed by the spate of deaths due to medical negligence. We presume only the poor die due to medical negligence. Not so. The rich who can afford the best treatment also perish because someone in the operation theatre goofs up. It‘s very important to not let gross medical negligence go unpunished. We are saying that Ankur Arora didn‘t die just because doctors failed to save him; instead, it was plain murder."