As days are passing, IFFI is getting more entertaining and engaging. I am pleased that Boxoffice.com has this cool initiative of covering film festivals worldwide and presenting them to "Internetwide."

Another exclusive expo, this time is all about the movie-posters. Titled as ‘A Voyage to Discover the Spirit of Freedom’ the exposition showcases various facets of India’s freedom struggle in movies, divided into… the birth of freedom, battle, independence, patriotism, nationalism, and reformation. I can the spot the enthusiasm on the faces of sightseers here, bringing alive the legacy of Indian cinema from its origin to the modern days through the media of photographs and film posters. Awesome!

I am here at this tiny hole-in-the wall, Prakash Café. Nothing outstanding here except that some of the festival delegates consider it to be the "unofficial" press club of IFFI. Every evening lots of filmi chitchat! and you could hang around over a cup of tea (15 cents) for hours. No questions asked!

Now, I am set to experience a social-cause documentary called AIDS JaaGO meaning AIDS Awareness in English. It is a good time to show this film, just a few days before December 1 which will be International World AIDs Day.This 90 min 2006 film is a joint effort between Canadian and Indian filmmakers, divided into four short stories, each directed by well-known Mira Nair (The namesake ), Vishal Bhadway, Farhan Akhtar, and Santosh Sivan.

Mira's piece, called Migration, features a closet married gay man, whose neglected wife has a one night stand with HIV positive man. And this infected person gets his own wife infected (unintentionally) along with their newborn.

Vishal Bharadwaj's segment, Blood Brother, starts as a suspense movie about an elder man pretending to not-know that he’s HIV positive and to carry on with his life. In a quick unfolding, the audience is told that AIDS can be treated just the way other severe diseases are treated.

Farhan's portion shows a bond between a disloyal HIV infected father, devoted caring mother, and a new-age son. The father is dying of AIDS in a hospital and mother pushes her son to reunion with his father. The son reminds her of her husband's disloyal actions and asks her why she still cares for the old man. 'It would have been a different thing if I had left him then,' says the mother. 'But now, he is really sick and he needs us, we cannot abandon him.'

Santosh Sivan narrates a story about a truck driver, an abandoned village boy, and his mother who is dying of AIDS, just the way her husband died. And she doesn't want the sweetheart boy, who has not seen her for over five years, to know she is alive.

Conspicuously, in this documentary all the major characters are played by well-known actors from Indian regional-movie industries, to make it a joint national effort of spreading AIDs awareness among the people of India.

Well done, Mira!