ChalChitra Abhiyaan, a film and media collective based out of Kandhla in western Uttar Pradesh, highlights the issues affecting the local communities in the region from which its media practitioners themselves hail.
Reporters Shakib Rangrezz and Vishal Stonewall, working with 'ChalChitra Abhiyaan', were accosted while speaking to residents of Kishanpur Baral village in Uttar Pradesh and threatened for "spreading misinformation about the government".
The mood is for change in the four bellwether villages nestled deep into the countryside in western UP, straddling the districts of Muzaffarnagar and Baghpat. Their voting pattern tends to replicate in a swathe of at least 40 of the 58 seats in the belt that go to the polls in the first phase. At th