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.[1]

Positive
Movie poster for Positive.
Directed byFarhan Akhtar
Written byRajesh Devraj
Produced byRitesh Sidhwani
Farhan Akhtar
Starring
CinematographyHemant Chaturvedi
Edited byAmitabh Shukla
Music byRam Sampath
Release date
  • 8 September 2007 (2007-09-08) (Toronto)
Running time
17 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

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.[2]

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.[3]

Plot

edit

Years ago, when Abhijit was a boy, he learned his father was involved in extramarital relationships. He kept it secret for several years, until tension rose too high and he left for Cape Town.

Time passes and Abhijit is called by his mother. His father had contracted the AIDS virus. It is up to Abhijit to be the bigger person to comfort his father, even after all he had done, in the last moments of his life.

Cast

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ "Farhan Akhtar's Positive outlook on HIV". IndiaFM. 18 October 2007. Archived from the original on 20 February 2009. Retrieved 26 January 2018 – via Sify.
  2. ^ "Mira Nair, Farhan Akhtar to make films on AIDS". Rediff.com. Press Trust of India. 22 January 2007. Archived from the original on 13 August 2023. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
  3. ^ "In the ad break". Mumbai Mirror.
edit