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Mumbai, Oct 18: Positive, as the name suggests, is all about a good ‘frame’ of mind. And this is exactly what Farhan Akhtar has done in his latest 12-minute short film by the same name. The film has no music, but, background score composed by Ram Sampat. It’s a film where every ‘frame’ deals very sensitively about a family’s support to a person suffering from HIV.

Talking about the film, Farhan says, “The film was entirely shot in the city and stars Boman Irani, Shabana Azmi and a debutant actor, Arjun Mathur. Just as a social stigma, many people believe that an HIV patient should be isolated. They also have certain misconceptions about dealing with the disease. And since India has a lot of joint families; it becomes very important for them to understand the value of support to the person who has acquired this disease. This is exactly what Positive talks about.”

Positive is one of the four short films made for the Bill Gates Foundation with a view of generating HIV AIDS awareness. The other three films will be made by Mira Nair, Vishal Bhardwaj and Santosh Sivan.