''Virus'' is a 2007 Indian

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was des ...

-language film directed by

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, starring

Abhinay Abhinay is an Indian actor who has appeared in Malayalam and Tamil language films. He made his debut in the 2002 film, '' Thulluvadho Ilamai'' directed by Kasthuri Raja. He also appeared in advertisement of Oreo Biscuits, Crownply. Career A ...

, Sajitha Beti and Shankar himself. The film was critically acclaimed and had a premiere held at

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Kalabhavan theatre.

Synopsis

'Virus' is the story of lovers, Abhinay and Sajitha Beti, both working in a

software Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...

firm. One day Sajitha Beti disappears from Abhinay's life. Shankar, brother of the Sajitha helps the lovers to reunite in spite of Sajitha Beti's dreaded disease, which was kept hidden from Abhinay. The film shows the life after for

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patients and gives the message that, society should be kind to AIDS patients and consider them as normal humans. The film travels in documentary mode sometimes, as it concentrates on AIDS disease itself.

Cast

Sajitha Betti Sajitha Betti is an Indian actress known for her works in Malayalam television serials and films. Biography Sajitha Betti belongs to a community of Urdu-speaking Muslims from Hyderabad. She is married to Shamas. She has two elder brothers and t ...

*Srikanth K Vijayan *Noble Moockan *R.Gowthaman *Sreeraj.K *Roshni

Snippets

''Virus'' was released in the US.

References

External links

* 2007 films 2000s Malayalam-language films HIV/AIDS in Indian films Docufiction films {{2000s-Malayalam-film-stub