Kamal’s commitment to social welfare is proven once again with him becoming the UN ambassador for HIV/AIDS. He is featuring in a multimedia campaign, which started off with a TV ad. Check out the United Nations Web-site, letsmakeitright.in. Read reports from The Hindu and IANS. This campaign seems to have been launched in time for World AIDS Day, which falls on December 1.

One would remember that Kamal was also supposed to make one of the short films of Mira Nair’s AIDS JaaGo series.

Yesterday, he participated in a function at Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College for Women (formerly and popularly known as SIET). Though news about it has been splashed across the media, let’s get some first-hand details from P, who was right there:

It is a campaign for giving HIV patients their due rights and Kamal is the campaign ambassador.

“He looks 100 times awesome in person than in screen”, exclaimed one of the girls. “What charisma”! The girls of the college kept shouting so much that he was overwhelmed. For each and every word he spoke, they yelled. Sporting a beard, he wore a grey blazer. “He really looks superbbbb…”, went another girl.

There were lots of press people and a photo session. He told the press that he would support this cause and include such subjects even in his movies.

Inevitably, he spoke of Dasavatharam on the sidelines, further confirming the delay in release.