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Positive (2007)

Positive poster
Directed by
Farhan Akhtar
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Runtime
19 min
Rated
U
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man with AIDS navigates his relationship with his wife and son. The short film focuses on their family dynamics and the emotional impact of his diagnosis.

emotionalpoignantsoberingintimatethought-provokinghumanisticgroundedfamily-focused

What happens

Positive is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language short film directed by Farhan Akhtar and produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani under their Excel Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. banner. The film starred Shabana Azmi and Boman Irani and Arjun Mathur. Positive was a part of AIDS JaaGo (AIDS Awake), a series of four short films, directed by Mira Nair (Migration), Santosh Sivan (Prarambha), Vishal Bhardwaj (Blood Brothers) and Farhan Akhtar, in a joint initiative of Nair's Mirabai Films, voluntary organisations Avahan and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Boman Irani plays an AIDS patient, Shabana Azmi as his wife and Arjun Mathur as their son. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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