Ventilator is a 2018 Indian Gujarati comedy-drama film directed by Umang Vyas, and produced by Falguni Patel and Lawrence D'Souza. It is an adaption of 2016 Marathi film Ventilator written and directed by Rajesh Mapuskar and produced by Priyanka Chopra. It stars ensemble cast of Jackie Shroff, Pratik Gandhi, Pravinchandra Shukla, Mitra Gadhavi, Sanjay Goradia, Utkarsh Mazmudar, Mehul Buch, Suchita Trivedi, Tejal Vyas, Manan Desai, Krunal Pandit. It was released on 14 September 2018.

Plot

Every year, the Mandalia family assembles in Chorvad, their ancestral village in state of Gujarat to celebrate Navratri festival. Three days before the festival, a doyen of the family—the much-loved and respected Girja Prasad Mandalia who is fondly known as Giju Kaka, fells in bathroom and goes into a coma. He is put on life support—a medical ventilator—in a Shelby hospital in Ahmedabad. Girja Prasad's nephew, Jagdish Mandalia aka Jaggu (Jackie Shroff), a popular Bollywood actor, receives this news from his father during a screening of his film and he leaves for hospital in Ahmedabad. Giju Kaka has been very kind to Jaggu, who is having some issues with his own father, Ambalal Mandalia who despite being a scholar in Gujarati literature never approved Jaggu's passion for acting. On his way to the hospital, Jaggu meets his cousin Mukesh and tells everyone, including the family in the village. Although his relatives are worried about Giju Kaka, they are also worried about the upcoming festivities. Giju Kaka's death during the festival would mean a period of mourning, spoiling their festive plans.