World AIDS Day: From Phir Milenge to Diagnosis, 5 Bollywood movies to spread awareness
Highlight
- RIVM revealed that the variant was found in patient samples dated November 19, 23
- On 24 November, South African officials reported the existence of the highly mutated virus to the WHO.
- In Japan, the patient was identified as a Namibian diplomat who had recently arrived from his homeland
World AIDS Day is celebrated across the world on 1 December every year. This usually involves people spreading awareness about AIDS and how it actually happens. Caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency (HIV) virus, AIDS has been declared a pandemic years ago and has no cure. It is a serious disease in which the ability of humans to fight infection is adversely affected. Only making people aware of its ill-effects can remove its taboo. At the same time, Bollywood has an important role in giving a strong message to the audience about this deadly disease. Over the years, we have seen many films on the theme of AIDS. Though many of them made a splash but did not go unnoticed at the box-office.
On World AIDS Day, let’s take a look at 5 such Bollywood movies:
1. Wake Up AIDS (2007)
Directed by acclaimed directors Mira Nair, Vishal BhardwajFarhan Akhtar and Santosh, ‘AIDS Jaago’ consists of four short films – Migration, Blood Brothers, Positive and Pramuh. It stars Shiney Ahuja, Irrfan Khan, Sameera Reddy, Raima Sen, Ayesha Takia and Pankaj Kapur, among others.
2. See you again (2004)
starring Salman KhanShilpa Shetty and Abhishek Bachchan, ‘Phir Milenge’ is probably the first film that comes to our mind which speaks about AIDS. It deals with moral issue which people have difficulty in understanding.
3. My Brother … Nikhil (2005)
Directed by Onir, starring Sanjay Suri and Juhi Chawla in lead roles, the film deals with homosexuality and AIDS in the history of Indian cinema.
4. 68 pages (2007)
Directed by Sridhar Rangayan, the film depicts the stories of members of a marginalized community who are let down after contracting HIV.
5. Ten Stories – Zaheer (2007)
A compilation of 10 short films directed by Sanjay Gupta, the film stars Dia Mirza and Manoj Bajpayee. Ten Stories based entirely on Virus also did well at the box office.
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