Overview
A transsexual bar dancer, a sex worker, a gay couple — characters often ignored by Bollywood — take center stage to tell their stories of pain and trauma, of happiness and hope. Coming from a country like India that is still in denial, 68 Pages exposes the shallowness of society to reveal how it stigmatizes and shuns those who have HIV or even those who just want to be what they are. This film deals with the issues of stigma and discrimination faced by people affected by HIV/AIDS from marginalized groups.
The film was produced with support from Department for International Development (DFID), UK. It was made as an advocacy effort to support the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) in National AIDS Control Programme, Phase III. In Phase III it was decided that the female sex workers, intravenous drug users, homosexuals and transgender will be considered core groups and HIV projects will start up at a rapid scale in the next five years with these groups.
In the next five years of NACP-III, this film is scheduled to screen all over the country to people who affect the lives of people with HIV and general populations in an attempt to bring a change in the attitude of the people towards people living with HIV.
The film has also been mandatory resource material for all counselor training programmes in India by NACO.
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