{"id":277,"date":"2004-08-25T09:01:22","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T14:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=277"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:18","slug":"bollywoods_phil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/25\/bollywoods_phil\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood’s Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salman & Shilpa test positive in their new flick – MSNBC – Bollywood to Release AIDS Film.<\/a><\/p>\n\n

BOMBAY, India – India’s first mainstream movie with a plot centered on AIDS opens worldwide this week, with leading actors portraying characters who battle stigma and discrimination after testing positive for the deadly disease.<\/blockquote>\n\n
In the movie Khan and Shetty find out they are HIV positive after a sexual encounter following a college reunion. While Khan succumbs to the AIDS virus, Shetty, with the help of a lawyer played by Abhishek Bachchan, takes her employers to court to get her job back. Bachchan is the son of India’s all-time top movie star, Amitabh Bachchan.<\/blockquote>\n\n
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UPDATE – apologies to Anna for dup’ing her fine post on the same subject – here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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