Indian Short Film, Hausla Aur Raste, produced by Chetan Bhairam awarded as ‘Special Festival Mention’ at 7th Delhi Shorts International Film Festival 2018 in the short film category, board members & jury of this film festival announced the result on 28th Oct 2018. This film has been made by debutant production house named as Envision Film Studio.

The film is about a Story, which is influenced from the past events in Indian society and why farmers are committing the suicides. This is a success story of a girl from a lower middle class farmer’s family. How she chases her dream of clearing Civil Services Exam (UPSC). She has grown up in a village with very limited resources / guidance to fulfill her dream. Despite all the odds she sets an example by becoming an IAS officer. As she falls in love with rich businessman from another caste, how she wins hearts of both the families and marries with him. In Indian Society most of the marriages are tied up based on financial conditions of the families. This story gives a message to those who believes in supporting society for a right cause.

Solutions provided from Film: Only a suicide is not a final solution for farmers due to loan, they can encourage their kids for education from their childhood and motivate them to do something for society. Money cannot buy everything in life. Encouraging to inter-caste marriage concepts to lift humanity in this world. If every entrepreneur at least thinks about employment establishment’ for one village in his/her premises, then there will be massive support for government to develop the nation. Humanity should not be assessed based on money. Nothing is impossible, if people are passionate to do something in life, background doesn’t matter where they come from.

The film festival held at Delhi 28th Oct 2018 whereas film across 55+ foreign countries has been nominated for various awards like Honorable Mention, Best Short Film,Best Documentary Film, Best Human Rights Documentary, Special Festival Mention etc.

Various vibrant ‘first time film makers’ from different part of the India were involved to take this project at international level, therefore Cinematography and music direction given by Prashant Chavan (Mumbai), Akshay Rohda (Gujarat) have worked as Assistant Cinematographer. Prashant Waghaye is a Co-Producer, while Yogesh Bhondekar is a Executive Producer and Production Manager — Imran Shaikh are from Maharashtra. Gujarat’s actor Maulik Chavan, Suresh Joshi, Himanshi Kavale are in the lead role, whereas Sanjay Wanwe, Atul Bhandarkar, Anjali Bhandarkar, Sarojtala Barve, Swapnil Jangale and Nilesh Hambarde played a key role in the film. All team member of Hausla Aur Raste are excited to participate in upcoming international film festivals.

When you invest your time to help & encourage people in life, you will start acting — that’s an attitude enlighten the characteristics of this man, who is the role model for many people in the field of film making. Growing up from small town Mehsana of Gujrat in India, Maulik Chauhan was a sharp student during school days. Perhaps a closer look into his struggle in life and achievements can inspire every individuals.

Apart from working in Film industry, Maulik is passionately working for social welfare, while dedicating maximum time of his life for social cause via acting in films. In addition of that he managed to practicing as he is professionally medical graduate whereas he holds Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery (B.H.M.S.) honor. Consistently he loves acting & spreading the effective information about people who are in need of ‘happy health’. The clouds of excellence almost touched Maulik, when he have seen struggle of people around his town from the scratch. His dedication towards film making have been claimed big buzz in Gujarat — India. He woke up with courage, faith in God and an aim to excel in whatever he does. He started taking his passion quite seriously. All he had with him to change his life was courage to be an active, and an aim to excel. His courage has rewarded as he started seeing improvements in his life. His passion started to improve. He started to win awards at state level. “Every experience has molded me into what I have accomplished today and inspired me to achieve more and more, as my parents used to encourage me regularly”, he Says.

The Vigor Media awarded him with best dancer of Gujrat award also best actor award from Sangit natya academy of Gujraat for the play ‘Spandan’ in 2011. A man who is an actor by passion, doing homeopathic practice in a village, visiting patients once in a month, performed in streets plays, lead 300+ events as an anchor also few events as a singer — worked in 9-Short films, 5-plays and many more.

As a person and an actor, he encourages everyone out there to stand up and make a choice, stand up and fight for human rights, stand up and make a change, remember it all start from individuals, the decisions, and the first step we take. A responsible person is a leader because as a mentor you teach a child to do all things so let us all stand up and do it all.

I’m so proud for the work I have been doing, I don’t just do it, but I love doing. Apart from acting, I love singing & dancing and my sister (Urvi) is my dance guru, as she taught me to dance when she used to learn Bharatnatyam”, Maulik recalls.

Indian cinema is more into commercial mindset and that should be but films should have an influence in society. It’s time to work for society and help deserving talents to realize their potential and social issue which can solve through films. Film industry should be the part of the change. “What I feel is, films like Chak De India, Bhag Milka Bhag, etc., should be made more to inspire and motivate the youth”, he says.

Everyone faces insecurities and other challenges. Maulik did too. But He wanted to redefine it, and encourage people to understand their hidden potential. Without pain, nobody can gain.“He always talks about the worth of action and education, and striking a balance between work and life”, to inspire others. His knowledge & education is the key of excellence. He dedicate all achievements to his parents & he believes in Karma.

‘I too had own difficulties to manage my passion towards acting. On the surface it all looks so smooth but I have gone through many challenges, because during school & college day I didn’t know about my dream, but when I have realized my friends & family supported me. Though it was tough for family because I was changing my career from Doctor to Actor, whereas acting is most insecure profession, but now they are happy’, Maulik recalls.

Maulik’s contribution so far –

In Films:

• Om Shanthi Om — Tamil movie— As a supporting actor
• Romcom — Gujrati movie — As a assistant director
• Thai Jashe — Gujarati movie— As a supporting actor
• Wrong Side Raju — National Award winning Gujarati Movie — As a supporting actor
• The Suspect — Hindi Short Film (Semifinalist in California film festival)— As a lead actor
• Pagalpanti — Hindi / Gujarati (Upcoming) — As a supporting actor
• Jalsa Kar — Gujarati (Upcoming) — As a lead actor
• Ghungat — Hindi Short Film (Upcoming) — As a lead actor
• Hausla Aur Raste -Hindi Short Film (Upcoming) — As a lead actor

Awards so far:

• Best Dancer of Gujarat Award from Vigor Media and performed for Trance media in 2007
• Best Actor Award from Sangit Natya Academy Of Gujarat for the play ‘Spandan’ in 2011.

Message by the passionate and powerful man, Maulik Chauhan -

“If you want to become an achiever in your life, then any profession in this world will enable the platform, if you think differently. Work hard towards your passion, clear action is the key of success and you can open any difficult lock in the world. You can achieve anything that you want in life if you have courage and faith in your efforts.Your work should be primary focus then luck come into picture. Never give up and never underestimate yourself, just believe & achieve it”.

Acting & Learning— The Strength Of My Life: Maulik Chauhan was originally published in Thrive Global on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Everybody wants to make a great life. We want to live in grand homes, buy fancy jewelry, earn tons of money etc. That is a definition of good life by many. But in this rat race of achieving materialistic things, a man forgets about others around himself. According to Shruti Pandit: A meaningful life is the life lived in the service of others and for helping others especially those who belong to poor strata of the society.

She is having an opinion, that society has given us many things like education, food, money etc. So, it is our moral duty and responsibility to give back to the society whatever we have got from it. There is a large section of people in our society who are living under pathetic conditions, who hardly get a square meal everyday and have no access to education. She believes that change in society can only happen if each and everyone of us contribute our bit to make society a better place to live in.

Not everyone can do everything but each of us can do something to make society a better especially for poor and needy people. With this intent to make a small difference in the world, Shruti decided to contribute for betterment of the society by whatever she could do at her level.

She works as an IT Engineer at an MNC but whenever she gets a chance she visits NGOs and contribute by delivering lectures on various topics to students from weaker section of the society. Till date she has worked with various NGOs,schools and colleges with the intent of helping kids.

“Children are future of any country and it is imperative that they should be attended well and should be exposed to right kind of learning environment where they can nurture their skills and knowledge.” She recalls. That’s why she visited Children’s Home in Umerkhedi, Mumbai along with an NGO multiple times to spend time with orphan kids and celebrate various festivals like Independence Day and Christmas with them to add colors to their life on joyous occasions along with other volunteers.

She has visited multiple engineering colleges in Mumbai and M.P. till date to impart training on honing communication skills to students from economically weaker section of the society. The training were received quite well by one and all. She thinks that students from this section of the society are powerhouse of talent, all they need is proper direction and guidance to do well in their lives. Her training help students in this regard. The colleges where she has conducted training are Sandesh College in Vikhroli (Mumbai),Mahtama Phule Arts,Science and Commerce College, Panvel and JIT Engineering College in Borawan (M.P.).

Besides this she conducted training for girls for an NGO as apart of Tata Volunteering Week on how to face interviews confidently. It was appreciated by the audience and received good feedback.She believes that women can be empowered by making themselves financially independent.She also happened to conduct sessions at Tata Strive on how to communicate at workplace. Tata STRIVE, an initiative of Tata Community Initiatives Trust, and the first Group CSR program, addresses the pressing need of skill development for India’s youth for employment, entrepreneurship and community enterprise. It reaches to communities, develops skills of people from financially challenged backgrounds and acclimatizes them with the changing work environment.

She has taught in schools of thane as well and Colleges like DJ Sanghavi to make students aware of career opportunities that lie ahead of them. She ran half and full marathons to support this cause of education which is close to her heart.

She signs off with message:-

“Volunteering is not an effort to change lives of other people.In the process of volunteering you are changed forever.So, go out and volunteer for a great cause today.Your life won’t be same again.”

Meaning Of Her Happy Life — Serving Others was originally published in Thrive Global on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Passion towards life reveals the character — that’s the positive spirit enlighten the characteristics of this girl, who is an example for various versatile public performers. Growing up from the union territory, city called Delhi in India. She was bright student during school days. There is Nidhi Nandrajog, a role model for many married women.

Nidhi, born to do more. Perhaps closer look into her struggle in life and achievements can inspire every girl. She is passionately working for social welfare, while dedicating some time of life. Consistently she loves spreading the effective information about people who are in need of ‘cloths, shelter & foods’. Her husband & family members are the greatest source of inspiration. Even her 13 year old son have motivated her for taking modelling assignments, that’s the spark made her confident.

The clouds of success almost touched Nidhi, when she performed at various national level modelling events across the North India and seen struggle of people around her city from the scratch. Apart from holding bachelor honors in English literature from Delhi University, she believes in continuous learning. She woke up with courage, faith in God and an aim to excel in whatever she does. She started taking her passion quite seriously. All she had with her to change her life was courage to be bold, and an aim to excel. Her courage has rewarded as she started seeing improvements in her life. Her passion started to improve. She started to win awards in modelling competitions. “Every experience has molded me into what I have achieved today, as my father used to encourage me regularly”, She Says.

As a girl and a parent she encourages everyone out there to stand up and make a choice, stand up and fight for human rights, stand up and make a change, remember it all start from individuals, the decisions, and the first step we take. A woman is a leader because as a mother you teach a child to do all things so let us all stand up and do it all.

I’m so proud for myself for the work I have been doing, I don’t just do it, but I love doing what I am doing because is what I love doing. I have accomplished two valuable crowns as of now”, she recalls

Nidhi’s contribution so far -

• Winner of Radiance Mrs India 2017
• 2nd Runner Up in Vibrant Mrs Delhi NCR 2017
• Title holder of “Best Walk” in Radiance
• Model for Amit Kumar’s LaFiesta Calendar 2018
• Received Guest of Honour by Inner wheel Club Delhi
• Received Guest of Honour by Aastha Club Delhi
• Done Ramp Walk for Thalassemia children of Foundation against Thalassemia(2017).
• Dance performed & Ramp walk in Anjana Kuthalia(Mrs India 1975) show ‘Bollywood Reloaded’.
• Title holder of Beautiful Eyes in Vibrant Mrs Delhi NCR

She signs off with the message- “You can achieve anything that you want in life if you have courage and faith in your efforts”. Never give up. Your work is primary focus then luck come into picture. Without Women, this globe is empty and blind. Women does play vital role in society. Being married woman, managing personal life is also crucial which will give you lot of confidence to do more for society.

Passion — Is What Made Her Confident was originally published in Thrive Global on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.