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Dear All, WE AT FREEDOM FOUNDATION, ARE PROUD TO INVITE YOU ON BEHALF OF GOA STATE AIDS CONTROL SOCIETY, TO THE SCREENING OF THE MOVIE ; 'PHIR MILENGE'. STARRING ABHISHEK BACHAN, SHILPA SHETTY & SALMAN KHAN. DIRECTED BY REVATHY. TO BE HELD ON THE 28TH OF OCTOBER 2004, AT SAMRAT , PANJIM AT 6PM SHARP. This is without doubt one of the most meaningful and moving movies of the year. HURRY, LIMITED PASSES AVAILABLE ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS. COLLECT YOUR FREE PASS (TWO PERSONS PER CARD), FROM FREEDOM FOUNDATION COMMUNITY CARE CENTRE OPP GREEN PARK SORVEM GUIRIM BARDEZ GOA. CALL AHEAD FOR CONFIRMATION BETWEEN 9 AM TO 2.00 PM AT 2264262, ON 28TH OCTOBER 2004. COME SHARE IN THE EXPERIENCE. FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT HEARD ABOUT IT I HAVE INCLUDED A REVIEW FROM MIDDAY BY MAYANK SHEKHAR Phir Milenge attempts to break mainstream moviedom's myths, to again break myths relating to HIV through a positive human story within known constructs of entertainment, is the film's foremost achievement. Revathy had revealed her deft touch with characters, relationships and intimacy with her supremely sensitive first film (Mitr - My Friend). In this brilliant adaptation of Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia (1993), she uses the same wares to tell a tale of a 'go-getter' and award-winning ad-woman Tamanna (Shetty - very real and at ease) who gets sacked from her agency for being an agent of HIV. She contracts the virus, courtesy a rendezvous with her childhood sweetheart (played by an as-usual studiedly silent Salman) at a school alumni meet. No counsels, but for an initially reluctant, relatively loser lawyer (Bachchan - extremely competent and endearing) decides to take up Tamanna's discrimination case against her employers. And the ensued courtroom drama (where courtrooms look like courtrooms) that never degenerates into melodrama and rarely into a pedantic mode makes two important points, besides point out our callous take on Aids victims. First, how the written laws in the country is completely blind to discrimination at workplaces. Second is the distinction between HIV carriers and AIDS patients (If diagnosed at the right time, HIV agents can live for 10 to 15 years). All this take-home incidentally is up for inference than hammered into your heads. And the review reads more a public service message than the picture itself, which is a frolic in its own right. If you're apathetic towards Aids as an issue, or veiled social sermons, certainly the lead actors and an enjoyable story line should sumptuously serve as attractions enough here. And if reverse is the case, surely walk in.
