Direct action against AIDS

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Direct action against AIDS

[9 Jan, 2007 2014hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

Is Bollywood ready to look beyond glamour and item numbers? Looks

like that, all thanks to filmmaker Mira Nair.

Is Bollywood ready to look beyond glamour and item numbers? Looks

like that, all thanks to filmmaker Mira Nair, and the Bill & Melinda

Gates Foundation's India initiative, Avahan.

They have jointly launched AIDS JaaGO – an awareness project.

What this means for us is that the Foundation and Mira will ensure

the making and screening of a series of short movies by well-known

Bollywood filmmakers, with a view to generating more awareness about

HIV/AIDS.

From the Indian film industry, mainstream filmmakers have been

chosen, so that their familiar name helps bring in a mass audience

appeal for these movies.

Those who will be donning the director's hat for this project will be

Mira Nair herself, apart from Santosh Sivan (The Terrorist), Vishal

Bhardwaj (Omkara), and Kamal Hassan. All of them have been signed on

to direct a film each.

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