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Chalchitra Abhiyaan ChalChitra Abhiyaan is a film and media collective based out of Western Uttar Pradesh in North India. It is anchored by filmmaker Nakul Singh Sawhney. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakul_Singh_Sawhney

The collective produces a range of video formats like documentary films, news features, interviews and live broadcasts. The collective specifically focuses on local issues that concern different marginalised communities in their own voices. The idea is to make a progressive cultural intervention and build a movement so that issues that are often glossed over by the mainstream media because of corporate control, the stranglehold of strong political parties or caste, class, religious and gender biases can be put on a national and international platform.

It also trains people from local communities to tell their own stories through videos. They organise film screenings, both documentaries and International cinema in rural areas of North India on several socio-political issues.

Since north India is increasingly becoming a tinder box of sectarian and caste violence, the collective has made interventions by intensively covering Bhim Army, agrarian distress, weavers' issues and that of unemployment and prevailing feudal and patriarchal norms to get them due attention in the Indian political discourse. Their reports have had an impact including the one on arrest of minor girls on charges of cow slaughter that led to the National Human Rights Commission to issue a notice to the Yogi government to explain the gross misconduct of the police.