Santosh Sivan directs Prabhu Deva, Saroja Devi

Vishal Bhardwaj who has made an AIDS film on behalf of Mira Nair for the Bill Gates Foundation, has high praise for Santosh Sivam. "Santosh's film for the same series is far superior to mine," says the generous composer-director whose Blue Umbrella gets released today. "In fact Santosh's film is the best of the entire lot, and that includes my film along with Farhan Akhtar and Mira Nair's." Santosh is delighted by his colleague's compliment. "Vishal has seen all the films in the series, so he's in a position to comment. That's very generous of him." Santosh's AIDS film in Kannada entitled Prarambha brings back veteran South Indian actress B. Saroja Devi (remember Rajendra Kumar singing