The Bharat Parikrama team performed here on Wednesday in five different spots. ``We are interactors not actors,'' said director S Ramachandran. At the Marina beach for instance, the group comprising nine youngsters, made a lot of noise to get the attention of the public. And then they launched the campaign. A small skit in Tamil (two of the interactors are Tamilians) was then performed on the ways in which one could or could not get infected.

Then the audience is drawn into the skit, and healthy debates are encouraged.

The group also performed at two spots in Kuralagam, and at Egmore and Central stations. Chennai is their third halt, after successful performances at Mumbai and Bangalore. The team members who are from diverse backgrounds, make an attempt to learn the local lingo, so as to make their skits that muchmore effective. According to the producer Prasanta Kundu the Parikrama, sponsored by Bharat Petroleum, was the second quit India movement, now against the scourge of HIV/AIDS.

In the first phase Calcutta and New Delhi would also be covered.The second phase would cover Hyderabad, Bhubaneshwar, Patna, Lucknow and Bhopal, the third phase the North-Eastern states and the fourth Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Shimla and Jammu and Kashmir. In the final round Thiruvananthapuram, Goa, Pondicherry and Andamans would be visited by the team.

But before that, the group hopes to learn a few more languages.