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This is an archive article published on December 19, 2008

A Short in the Arm

If Rock On ! has made you a new member of the Farhan Akhtar fan club, here8217;s your chance to catch his film with a difference 8212; a 12-minute short called Positive on AIDS.

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If Rock On ! has made you a new member of the Farhan Akhtar fan club, here8217;s your chance to catch his film with a difference 8212; a 12-minute short called Positive on AIDS. The film is part of Filmbooth, a festival by the nine-month-old organisation Forumforfilms. 8220;We want to screen non-documentary short films that8217;ll keep the audience gripped,8221; says Gaurav Raturi, one of its members.

Akhtar8217;s Positive, starring Boman Irani, Shabana Azmi and Arjun Mathur, is one of the four films made last year to raise awareness about AIDS. The other three 8212; Migration by Mira Nair, Blood Brothers by Vishal Bharadwaj and Prarambha by Santosh Sivan 8212; will also be screened.

There are also 30-odd films by filmmakers in their twenties. One among them is 26-year-old Abhinav Tripathi. The creative supervisor at Ogilvy 038; Mather who makes shorts in his free time has a minute-long animation called Jump 8220;that follows a man who has jumped to his death but changes his mind mid-way8221;. Meanwhile, 24-year-old lecturer Vishesh Azaad has a nine-minute film Agli Red Light Se Left. 8220;You8217;d be surprised at the things that pass through a man8217;s mind when he8217;s waiting at the traffic lights, with his foot on the clutch,8221; Azaad says. Sreedeep, a 25-year-old research student from JNU, creates his drama in No Bed-Space for Long Lines through several hundred photographs.

Filmbooth will be held at the IHC from Dec 19 to 21. Contact: 24682001

 

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