What happens to a family when the main breadwinner becomes seriously ill? How does one cope when a loved one suddenly develops a serious mental illness? These are some of the questions that director Blessy Ipe Thomas seeks to bring forward in his film Thanmatra (molecule). The film recen...

Health matters, a documentary by Shikha Jhingan. DVD, 60 minutes, 2005

Devrai (117 minutes, Marathi) 2004 tells the story of Shesh, a young man diagnosed with schizophrenia, and the dilemmas faced by his sister Sina and their cousin Kalyani.

"She is not mentally retarded!" shouts Debraj Sahai (Amitabh Bachchan) when Michelle Mcnally's father describes his multiple-disabled child as an "animal in human form". Black is the story of Michelle, a blind, deaf and mute child, whose Anglo-Indian parents don't know how to reach her in the dar...

Shwaas is the first Marathi film sent as the Indian entry to the Oscars. Directed and produced by Sandeep Sawant, this human drama revolves around the story of a small boy who will become blind as a result of life-saving surgery.

Phir Milenge (We'll meet again), the maiden directorial venture of south Indian actress Revathy, is a poignant story of HIV-infected persons. The story revolves around three themes—a human interest narrative, presentation of medical facts on HIV/AIDS, and an analysis of the social and legal impac...

How do they depict a doctor in Hindi films or TV serials? He is either a grave-faced, bespectacled, didactic person somberly announcing that either the mother or the child will survive, but not both, or he is a buffoon who is acted out by Johnny Lever, or some other comedian with outlandish manne...