AIDS Jaago
MIRA NAIR
, VISHAL BHARDWAJ
, FARHAN AKHTAR, SANTOSH SIVAN
India,
2007, 80 minutes, Color, 35mm
A collection of four beautiful short films by award-winning Indian directors with top movie stars, AIDS Jaago was conceived by Mira Nair and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to raise awareness of AIDS in India and its potentially epidemic threat. Nair's Migration follows the spread of AIDS in urban and rural India through interconnected stories. Bhardwaj's Blood Brothers focuses on a young man who loses everything after he is diagnosed HIV-positive. Sivan's Parambha explores the social fate of those infected through the story of a truck driver who discovers a boy in his vehicle. And in Akhtar's Positive, a family tries to cope with the devastation caused by AIDS.
Director Mira Nair is the award-winning director of films such as Salaam Bombay, Monsoon Wedding and The Namesake and currently is directing Shantaram for Warner Brothers. Santosh Sivan is a renowned cinematographer who began directing with The Terrorist and won international acclaim. Vishal Bhardwaj's latest, acclaimed film, Omkara, is a Hindi version of Shakespeare's Othello. New Wave director Farhan Akhtar directed Dil Chahta Hai and Don and is among Bombay's most prominent young filmmakers.
In Hindi, Malayalam and English with English subtitles
Featuring: Shiney Ahuja, Raima Sen, Sameera Reddy, Irrfan Khan, Siddhartha, Pankaj Kapoor, Ayesha Takia, Shabana Azmi, Prabhudeva, Boman Irani