Kolkata, June 15 (TIWN) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is like a "guardian", a "mother", said renowned actor-filmmaker Aparna Sen as she appealed to the Trinamool chief to "change her stance a bit" and take a more humane view of the threats faced by doctors.

"The Chief Minister is our guardian. I would request her to change her stance a bit on this issue and talk to the young doctors here. They are like your children. Please come here once and talk to them to sort out the problems," she said.   Part of a group of intellectuals from the state who on Friday stood by the agitating junior doctors at the NRS Medical College and Hospital here, Sen urged Banerjee to speak to the striking doctors to normalise the situation, even as the agitation saw nation-wide solidarity from AIIMS and other hospitals across states.  Sen was present alongside stage and screen actor Kaushik Sen, who met the agitating doctors and expressed solidarity to their movement.