AIDS JaaGO (2007)

Description

The AIDS JaaGO project presents four short films by directors Mira Nair, Vishal Bhardwaj, Santosh Sivan and Farhan Akhtar that aim to dismantle myths and misconceptions about HIV/AIDS. This project was the brainchild of Mira Nair and is produced by her company, Mirabai Films. The four AIDS Jaago films come from different parts of India – each with in its own genre and each with a different point about HIV/AIDS.

Each film uses top Indian movie stars to maximize the exposure of the films to audiences thoughout India and around the world.

The Films

Migration depicts the AIDS virus as the great class leveler in society by following its transmission through interweaving stories linking urban and rural India. The film follows Birju, a young man who makes a careless decision that destroys the lives of everyone around him.

Positive tells the story of a young boy’s family and how they cope with the devastation that AIDS brings to their family. After tolerating his father’s indiscretions for years in his youth, he must reconcile his desire to start a new life for himself with his duties to his family.

Prarambha – The Beginning, features South Indian superstar Prabhudeva as a truck driver who discovers a young boy named Kittu stowed away in his vehicle. He reluctantly agrees to help Kittu in his search to find his long lost mother and encounters a world of ignorance and prejudice he never knew existed.

Blood Brothers, stars Siddhartha (Rang de Basanti) as a successful young man who receives a positive HIV diagnosis and subsequently allows his life to fall apart. Wandering aimlessly through city streets, his encounters demonstrate the different ways HIV/AIDS victims cope with their diagnoses.

Additional information

Weight	0.13 kg
Media Type	DVD
Language	English, Hindi, Kannada
Print Quality	On Demand DVD-R

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