AIDS JAAGO

India & USA/2007/Dirs: Santosh Sivan (Prarambha/The Beginning); Vishal Bharadwaj (Blood Brothers); Mira Nair (Migration); Farhan Akhtar (Positive)/Hindi & Kannada dialogue with English subtitles/Colour/35mm/71 mins

Four short fictions urgently address India’s alarming rate of Aids cases, within star-laden entertainment. In The Beginning, a truck driver (Prabhu Deva) meets a boy searching for the mother who left him when she learned they were HIV-positive. In Blood Brothers, Siddarth plays an HIV-positive man whose life falls apart. In Migration, Mumbai go-getter Abhay leads a double life, with his wife, Divya, and a gay lover. Impoverished farmer Birju impregnates the neglected Divya, while his own wife and baby test positive. In Positive, a son returns home to nurse his once-philandering father, who is dying from Aids.

Running Time : 71 mins
Programme : a celebration of indian cinema, The Dubai Gala Screenings
Venue : Madinat Arena, Madinat Arena
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