Literary texts offer instant and absolute access to characters’ psychological states unlike the characters on celluloid. The ability to enter the minds of fictional characters is, of course, one of the credits of literary works. This paper makes a modest attempt to analyze a successful film adaptation of Mahesh Dattani’s play, ‘Ek Alag Mausam.’ But it is hard for movies to compete with literary texts in this regard. The socio-psychological impacts of AIDS on the infected people are studied from sociological perspective. It demands a critical enquiry into why it is so difficult to contain the spread of the disease. An NGO, ‘Action Aid’ made a film on AIDS titled 'Ek Alag Mausam.' AIDS related discrimination, stigmatization and denial can appear in a variety of forms, at various levels and in different contexts. Since death is difficult to represent, the crisis of AIDS becomes an existential problem. The experience of death perpetually remains unknowable. Anxiety associated with impending death in the case of AIDS therefore remains intact. Keywords: AIDS, Death, Discrimination, Screenplay, Stigmatization