Chalchitra Abhiyaan

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Working Class of West UP- Sanitation Workers

There are about 50 lakh sanitation workers in India. These sanitation workers or Safai Karamcharis have always been considered as the lower rungs of the society even when they are the ones who work...

22 Sep 2021

Working Class Of Shamli -Women Garbage Pickers

Many women like Shabhnam and Bilkis (in photo) in Kandhala, district Shamli, West UP, earn 160 rupees per for garbage picking while also handling all household chores. ChalChitra Abhiyaan’s...

27 Feb 2021

This land is our land

Recently, an increasing number of cases of forced land grab of Dalit families are being reported in Western UP. These lands, on which these Dalit families have been dependent for many years, are...

20 Mar 2020

Trailer: This land is our land

Recently, an increasing number of cases of forced land grab of Dalit families are being reported in Western UP. These lands, on which these Dalit families have been dependent for many years, are...

17 Mar 2020

Jan Ragini - 4 The Struggling Agricultural Labourer

Agricultural labrourers account for a large percentage of people associated with agriculture. According to 2018 statistics India has over 15 crore agricultural laboureres. According to the 2011...

14 Feb 2020

Working class of Shamli - Potter

To understand the lives of the working class in Shamli, Chalchitra Abhiyaan presents 'The Working Class of Shamli', a multi-part series. Vijaypal is the last potter in District Shamli's Nala village,...

29 Nov 2019

ChalChitra Abhiyaan- Our Journey so Far

The idea of ChalChitra Abhiyaan germinated soon after the Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013, when we realised how social media (and even sections of mainstream media) were being used to vitiate the...

03 Aug 2019

5 Saints dead under Hindutva rule for Ganga

Several Sadhus from Matri Sadan Ashram in Haridwar have sat on hunger strikes to save the Ganga from environmental degradation. Since 2014, two Sadhus have died because of hunger strikes, and one...

28 Mar 2019

Jan Ragini 3- Inflation's Assault

This ragini portrays the condition of our worsening economy today and focuses on the plight of the working class. Using a folk form with accessible lyrics, it tells us how the poor in this country...

25 Mar 2019

Jan Ragini 2

This people's ragini reflects the condition of today's youth, who, in spite of getting an education are unemployed and vision-less. The ragini reflects the condition of the youth in the context of...

26 Dec 2018

Shabbirpur, one year of Resistance

Dalits are fighting back since the caste violence in Shabbirpur a year back. Many like Bhim Army founder continue to be in jail, yet schools, women's mobilisation and Ambedkar's teachings pave a...

05 May 2018

चलचित्र अभियान के लिए जन समर्थन

चलचित्र अभियान की मदद करने के लिए इस लिंक पर क्लिक करें-...

17 Apr 2018

Crowdfunding for ChalChitra Abhiyaan

To support ChalChitra Abhiyaan, click on this link- https://ourdemocracy.in/Campaign/cca ChalChitra Abhiyaan website link- www.chalchitraabhiyaan.com ChalChitra Abhiyaan is a film and media...

17 Apr 2018

Jan Ragini 1 - Farmers' Pathos

This Ragini portrays the condition of the farmers today. The farmer and his predicament can be felt in the Ragini. From the daily struggles of the farmer to the need to put up a resistance, Master...

13 Mar 2018

Muavza (Redressal)

On the 7th and 8th of September, 2013, Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts of Western Uttar Pradesh saw their worst ever riots since independence. Independent sources reveal that over 100 people were...

09 Sep 2017

आज़ादी कूच में सावित्री की बहनें

One year after the public flogging of Dalits at Una in Gujarat, a call was given for the ‘Azadi Kooch’ yatra (march). The yatra traveled through several towns and villages of Mehsana and...

03 Sep 2017

Savitri's Sisters at Azaadi Kooch

One year after the public flogging of Dalits at Una in Gujarat, a call was given for the 'Azadi Kooch' yatra (march). The yatra traveled through several towns and villages of Mehsana and Banaskantha...

01 Sep 2017

Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai Trailer

Watch the trailer of ‘Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai’ Crew: Nakul Singh Sawhney, Mohammad Gani, Kamesh Karna, Puloma Pal, Asheesh Pandya

28 Jan 2017

Kairana, Surkhiyon Ke Baad... (Kariana, After the Headlines...)

Kairana, a small town in western Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district has recently been in the headlines. In June 2016, Kairana's MP, Hukum Singh, who is from the Bharatiya Janata Party, claimed that...

28 Sep 2016

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Kairana, Surkhiyon Ke Baad... (Kariana, After the Headlines...) Kairana, a small town in western Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district has recently been in the headlines. In June 2016, Kairana's MP, Hukum Singh, who is from the Bharatiya Janata Party, claimed that there was an exodus of Hindus from Muslim-majority Kairana because of harassment by Muslims. To substantiate his allegation, he released a list of 346 Hindu families who had supposedly migrated from the town. It didn't take long, but the list was soon discredited. Many in the list were still living in Kairana, some had moved out over a decade ago for economic reasons, and while some did claim that deteriorating law and order was a serious concern, no one attributed their migration from Kairana to a Hindu-Muslim conflict. Kairana, Surkhiyon ke Baad...' (Kairana, After the Headlines...) – produced by Chalchitra Abhiyan and The Wire – attempts to look at the town and its politics, and the issues that affect it, beyond the binaries of Hindu versus Muslim. The film speaks to a range of voices from Kairana – from Muslim youth, to Hindus and Jains, the workers who have to travel far from the town for their daily wages, Dalits and women. The town, like many others in UP (and perhaps India) is today confronted with the grim reality of its real issues being glossed over under the shrill rhetoric of religious polarisation imposed on residents by influential politicians. Even as the recent National Human Rights Commission report on Kairana gives credence to Hindu right wing claims that Kairana's Muslim men selectively molest Hindu women, my film tries to scratch beneath the surface of such claims to reveal the larger patriarchal assault on women of both religions, by men of both religions. The Dalits of Kairana speak of how they're at the receiving end of caste hierarchies upheld by dominant caste men of both religions. Muslim youth and workers speak of stark issues of unemployment in the town and the lack of any basic amenities – factors that are leading to growing criminalisation of the youth. A criminalisation that both Hindus and Muslims are victim to. The Hindus and the Jains of Kairana speak of how they've never felt vulnerable in a Muslim majority town. In the midst of this despair, the film tries to look at the daily resistance of the people of Kairana and their struggles to bring back to the fore the real issues that afflict them. Crew- Amrit Raj, Imran Khan, Nakul Singh Sawhney

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