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Click on the link above to read about the "Are You Well" Project in the Times of India, Crest Edition, January 30, 2010 News Article

In our 15th year of Behavior Change Communication Nalamdana Makes Children's Day in India Special by creating a film addressing domestic violence, suicide prevention and child labour

Nandavanathil.....
(In the perfect garden...)
a one hour Tamil video film
Story, Screenplay, Dialogues and Direction
R. Jeevanandham, Nalamdana

The film shows how a loving couple, full of dreams, find their world topsy turvy by the end of a gripping one hour story. The domestic violence and husband's drinking drive the young mother and wife to suicide.

The deliberate negative ending has already created positive change in some women. One woman in the test audience last week came up to Jeevanandham (after seeing the film) and cried, telling him that this was her real story too. She said she had been on the brink of suicide many times, but now after seeing what happened to the little boy, she was determined to live, fight it out and save her child.

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