Movies on HIV

Phir Milenge
Directed by Revathy Menon, an award–winning Indian actress turned director. Its central character is a successful career woman, Tamanna, who suddenly learns she is HIV–positive. The film touches on ignorance, fear, stigma, discrimination in the workplace and the use of the courts to right wrongs committed against those living with HIV.

My Brother Nikhil
This is certainly one of the best movies about AIDS in Bollywood. Sanjay Suri a vastly under rated actor puts in a great performance as an AIDS victim who is deserted by his family and his girl friend. His only hope is his sister, great performance by Juhi Chawla, who stands by him through thick and thin. And this is one movie where Gays are not shown as belonging to Mars, but as normal human beings like you and me, and who also deserve a place in society. Though the end is tragic, the hope lies in the message it sends out to AIDS victims that there are people who care for you, and who are sensitive to your feelings.

Philadelphia
Andrew Beckett, a gay lawyer infected with AIDS, is fired from his conservative law firm in fear that they might contract AIDS from him. After Andrew is fired, in a last attempt for peace, he sues his former law firm with the help of a homophobic lawyer, Joe Miller. During the court battle, Miller sees that Beckett is no different than anyone else on the gritty streets of the city of brotherly love, sheds his homophobia and helps Beckett with his case before AIDS overcomes him.

Longtime Companion
Perhaps the first film to put a human face on the AIDS epidemic, Longtime Companion follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1981. First referred to as “Gay–Related–Immune–Disorder,” we watch the effect of the disease as it devastates the lives of our protagonists. Jumping between Manhattan and Fire Island, vignettes carry us from the it–couldn’t–happen–to–me mentality of the early days of the disease to the invasive effect it has had on all of our lives, today. The title of the film comes from the New York Times’ refusal to acknowledge homosexual relationships in their obituary section during this period. Instead, survivors were referred to as "Longtime Companions" of the deceased.