Director Roshan Sethi's 'The Surgeon' is a high-concept thriller that fuses medical drama with crime and action elements, anchored by Michelle Yeoh in her first starring role since her Best Actress Oscar win for Everything Everywhere All at Once. The film follows Dr. Eliza Lim, a veteran surgeon facing retirement, who is forcibly abducted by criminals and coerced into performing surgery on one of their associates at gunpoint.

Yeoh's character transforms from captive to combatant, weaponising her surgical knowledge and improvised weapons to turn the tables on her captors in a darkly comedic action sequence that evokes comparisons to revenge thrillers. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, showcasing Sethi's vision of blending tense procedural elements with the bloody, visceral action of a crime revenge narrative, all undercut with humour.