Health and Cinema: 21st to 23rd February 2013

Zindagi Zindabad (Long Live Life; Hindi)
(145 min; dvd; English subtitles)
Directors: Sumitra Bhave & Sunil Sukthankar

With Om Puri, Mita Vasisht, Milind Gunaj, Uttara Baokar

India's first feature film on AIDS"”a naval officer infected through blood transfusion and alienated from his beloved is trying to sue a senior doctor and the blood bank for negligence; the struggles and sexual adventures of a group of hostel boys and street kids; moments of commitment and betrayal of a gay couple. The film is like a jigsaw puzzle and when all the pieces come together, it presents a complex picture of a modern, urban Indian situation of HIV and AIDS