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[PFC Note: AIDS Jaago is Mira Nair's project funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and has four short films by four different directors. Mira's Migration, Vishal Bharadwaj's Blood Brothers, Santosh Sivan's Prarambh and Farhan Akhtar's Positive. Its currently doing the festival rounds. PFC will showcase all the four films here and will also try to get the directors on why and how of their story. And a big thanx to Shernaz Italia, producer of the film for letting us to showcase the films here. We are starting with Santosh Sivan's Prarambh. Thanks to Santosh who took time to relay his latest blog on the film in spite of being extremely busy in post-production of his new film. ~ phoenixnu]

Click the picture below to watch PRARAMBH - the movie

Prarambh - Behind the scenes

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Note: Santosh Sivan has been quite eager to start his diary on PFC, but had been quite busy and tied down in his projects. PhoenixNu suggested he record opening pages of the diary on a Dictaphone which he would type and publish verbatim until Santosh got some free space to start writing himself. Following is the first part of the entire recordings that Santosh provided to PhoenixNu. Santosh will be writing very shortly as soon as he gets some free time from his extremely tight schedule.

PhoneixNu writes:

I’m in USA… will catch up soon. I’m in Japan… will catch up soon… shooting in London… will catch up soon. It’s very difficult to track Santosh Sivan. Yes, Santosh Sivan… you spell it and u think visuals…Dil se, Roja, Gardish, Saza-e-Kalapani, Halo, Thalapati, Rudali, Terrorist, Iruvar, Ashoka, Meenaxi… It’s a long list with some 40 films in various languages…more than 10 …