World AIDS Day: Sanjay Suri recalls being told 'it’s commercial suicide’ while doing My Brother Nikhil

Actor Sanjay Suri was just five year into Bollywood when he took up the titular role in Onir’s film My Brother.Nikhil, which talked around the stigma attached to a HIV Positive person. This is commercial suicide.’ Literally this was the term but I said that ‘I am happy’ and then they asked ‘why do you need to produce it also with your friends’ But we wanted to tell the story and I am really glad that I did that.” The film also starred Juhi Chawla, Purab Kohli, Victor Banerjee and others and did several rounds of international film festivals. Sanjay Suri and Juhi Chawla in a still from My Brother Nikhil “The film was loved all over the world and even used by a lot of colleges, even the armed forced for advocacy and sensatization while the film industry completely ignored it. The actor shares that he personally knew “families both in India and USA where the film’s point of view helped in changing perceptions of several families” who had disconnected with their HIV Positive members and that he still meets youngsters in their 20s, who are “discovering the film now.” In the sea of re-releases in India currently, would My Brother.Nikhil’s re-release have any different result?