Vicky Donor Full Movie Online Watch

[Jan Dominquez]

Rightfrom the day the promos of this film aired, I believed that the film is going to pitch in a surprise. And it does manage to pull in a surprise right from the word go. It also leaves a strong point which I have always mentioned that you never need a GREAT STARCAST to sell a film. All you need is a convincing story with convincing actors. And trust me VICKY DONOR promises to stick to both of these rules. It has Ayushmann Khurrana making his debut alongside Yami Gautam and the only powerful prominent star present is the versatile Annu Kapoor. Made at a modest budget of 5 crores (modest in terms of other grand Bollywood flicks) the film pitches in the biggest surprise of the year.

Enter Ayushmann a.k.a Vicky Arora who Chaddha finds apt for being a donor and his ticket to being rich. Vicky Arora is a typical Delhi lad who loves whiling away time doing nothing but shopping, playing cricket and clubbing. His mother (Dolly Ahluwalia) runs a beauty parlour and mints money which her son shamelessly spends.

What is brilliant about the film is that it is so light hearted and it tackles a sensitive issue of Sperm Donation with so much ease. Moments filled with laughter and equally strong drama make this a complete entertainer. Not at one single point the film gets preachy of the issue and continues to tickle your funny bone.

The film marks the debut of many people and not just John Abraham as producer. An entirely new crew of fresh bunch of young talent put up their efforts to give us a brilliant piece of work which leaves a strong message in the end.

Annu Kapoor we all know is a versatile actor and has proved his worth in any role, and this time too he delivers a noteworthy performance. His obsession with sperms and his dedication as Baldev Chaddha is a delight to watch on screen.

Leading the IFE 'show' is an extended field article from the UNICEF team in Indonesia, sharing their IFE experiences in the aftermath of the earthquake in 2006. On reading the piece you may well get that 'deja-vu' feeling - mass arrival and untargeted distribution of infant formula, milk powder, and commercial baby foods to mothers and children. Monitoring was almost non-existent. Coordination proved a big challenge despite the cluster mechanism being in place - infant and young child feeding falling between cluster 'camps' until finally being integrated into the Reproductive Health Cluster. We have described similar experiences many times in Field Exchange, including my own in FYR Macedonia in 1999. But this article goes further than any of the others we have featured. First, the team presents evidence that indiscriminate distribution of breastmilk substitutes (BMS) makes babies sick. Eighty per cent of under 2 year olds had received BMS in the previous 24 hours. Less than one-third of the infants (32%) under the age of 6 months old had ever consumed infant formula before the earthquake increasing to 43% during the emergency response. Pre-earthquake diarrhoea prevalence stood at 1% - 7%, increasing to 29%. Furthermore, diarrhoea prevalence in under 2 year olds was double amongst those who received donations of BMS (25.4%) as compared to those who did not (11.5%).

Faced with deteriorating feeding practices and increased morbidity in a population with typically poor feeding practices and now awash with milk powder, the team rose to the challenge. They responded through a combination of high level advocacy, of targeted media materials and developed an innovative system of skilled breastfeeding support to mothers, 'cascading' from trainer to peerto- peer support. This had an immediate effect - amongst 54 post-earthquake newborns assessed, nearly all initiated breastfeeding within one hour of birth and over 63% were exclusively breastfeeding regardless of access to free BMS. Months later, reported exclusive breastfeeding rates in a surveyed group were still way above pre-emergency levels. The intervention had a knock on effect on national breastfeeding awareness and capacity, and strengthened ongoing national programming.

But why should staff have to intervene to prevent the damaging effect of aid? This type of experience was one of the driving forces behind a regional workshop on IFE held in Bali, Indonesia earlier this year and summarised in this issue. Funded by the UNICEF-led Nutrition Cluster and organised by the ENN/IFE Core Group in collaboration with UNICEF and the MOH Indonesia, the focus was on improving emergency preparedness and the early humanitarian response on IFE. Participants from 16 countries in the region attended. Almost all countries at the workshop had experienced receiving large, unsolicited donations of infant formula and other milk products during emergencies. The experiences of two countries, in particular, gave some valuable insight into the complexities behind handling this aid response, and have been written up as field articles in this issue.

Sawsan Rawas, a Nutrition Specialist with UNICEF DPRK, describes the extensive diplomatic efforts, at national, regional and international level, to avert donations of BMS coming in aid in response to severe flooding in August 2007. Significantly, even when pending donations were identified, there was great difficulty in preventing or diverting them. Staff spent considerable time on advocacy and 'containment'. The author concluded that advocacy and raising awareness were essential in preparedness for these challenges and the experiences from the Philippines provided some inspiration for how to to go about doing this.

The Philippines initiative to prevent donations of BMS, described by Ms Florinda Panlilio, of the Department of Health, Philippines, was prompted by the "fragmented, independent and donor-driven assistance" that arrived for the victims of Typhoon Reming in 2007. Early, widespread, and often unmonitored donations of infant formula and assorted powdered milk were made by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), government agencies, and schools to the disaster sites. One key action taken by the Philippine Disaster Management System to prevent this recurring has been the development of an administrative order on the acceptance of foreign and local donations during emergencies and disasters, prohibiting the acceptance of donated infant formula, breastmilk substitutes, feeding bottles, artificial nipples, and teats. This has been communicated to foreign embassies represented in the Philippines. Both the DPRK's and Philippines' experiences highlight the tensions that can exist between the politics of aid and best practice.

Aluded to earlier, the regional workshop on IFE in Bali was considered a success and an engagement at country level that really marked new territory. Outputs included country action plans, a model regional joint statement on IFE and a pledge for action by the individual participants. However, lack of donor involvement was frustrating - none of the invited regional or international representatives of bilateral donors attended, breaking their previous attendance record of one at an IFE strategy meeting in Oxford in 2006. Lack of donor commitment to addressing undernutrition is the subject of a summarised research paper in this issue of Field Exchange. Here, the authors describe how nutrition in the EC and DFID is everybody's concern but no one's responsibility. Sadly, the ENN only has to scan its participant lists from previous meetings, as well as its Field Exchange distribution list, to confirm these findings. With some notable exceptions, nutrition remains a low priority amongst many major donors.

Some sense of the evolution of collaborative efforts on IFE over the past 8 years or so, is reflected in the interview with IBFAN-GIFA on page 39, one of the founding members of the 'IFE Core Group' in 1998, and a stalwart member ever since. There is always the risk that those who are passionate about a subject are seen as extremist by another - indeed, the area of infant and young child feeding seems to be one particularly fraught with emotive 'baggage'. Critically, what the interview with Lida Lhotska and Rebecca Norton reflects is that breastfeeding protection and support, as one of the cornerstones of IFE, is less an idealology and more a well-grounded and evidence based strategy in child survival. How to 'make it happen' in emergencies is fundamentally what drives this group.

'Making it happen' on the infant and young child feeding (IYCF) front is certainly picking up pace on the international agenda. As we go to press, a number of large initiatives/meetings to address child undernutrition in high burden areas are taking place, spearheaded by MSF's global malnutrition campaign "Starved for Attention: the neglected crisis of childhood malnutrition". This impetus offers a real opportunity to target attention, resources and innovation to maternal and reproductive health and feeding and care of children 0-2 years of age. However much of the attention currently centres on the scale up of Ready to Use Foods (RUFs) for treatment and prevention of moderate malnutrition, encouraged by the success of their use in community-based management of severe acute malnutrition. Certainly the development of the Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) formulation that allowed high specification take-home rations was a key element of its success, but community mobilisation and engagement is, many would argue, just as important. Infant feeding may be the mothers' final responsibility, but is a family affair, and community-based approaches to managing malnutrition offer a great 'window of opportunity' to address IYCF early and at ground level.

There is a risk that in our drive to move forward on child undernutrition, we limit ourselves (perhaps unconsciously) to what we as individuals or as agencies consider is 'doable' or that conforms with the 'status quo'. Locating interventions to address child undernutrition in a comprehensive global framework on infant and young child feeding should help - both to establish an individual agency's own capacity and/or to create the right alliances to address infant and young child feeding in a sustainable and sensitive manner. We should take care that in our race to deal with malnutrition and all the talk of 'medicine foods', we do not medicalise infant and young child feeding any more than is necessary. We should not, as one seasoned humanitarian at a recent international meeting on child undernutrition cautioned, let self-interest and ideologies get in the way of making progress. And, perhaps most fundamental of all, we need to re-appreciate the "inherent human value" of food, eloquently described by Tom Marchione in his views piece (p25).

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