for many budding filmmakers this is just a hobby for others its the beginning of a career in filmmaking as for their professional skills most of them are amateur cinematographers and actors saksham pandey belonging to one such band of enthusiastic street video makers shares we arent trained in this but we want our ideas to happen having come a long way from performing and composing music the group is now filled with love for chhattisgarhi art and folk music and are determined to take it to an international audience luckily social media comes to their rescue for promoting anurag whose group ropes in young talent and trains them says our next song and video will be on dowry the leaders of these groups are generally college passouts while other members are an assortment of school and college students vivek jaiswal who came up with the concept and directed their first film shares inspired by a documentary we collected short clips from all over the city and made a video we have worked hard on it and are trying to send it to a film festival too harshit shares next up we have two vidoes one on raipurs funny gk quotient and another on the conversations friends have when theyre drunk when we are on the streets to shoot people are quite excited and throng to share their ideasthough keval says our name was suggested by a friend its an opportunity for youngsters like me to team up with interested actors and editors to create something presentablewhile this group of 13 spends a lot of time working on shorts although not professional they are very good it was also played at the international hockey league held in raipur till now weve made two videos more are coming up sushma maheshwari an interior designing student shares i have seen most of these videos over the net while college going students shell out from their pocket money others invest large amounts sadakchhaps street stylesadakchhap is a mixed bag of more than 10 passouts dropouts and collegegoing youngsters led by three pioneers harshit purohit keval chitaliya and saksham pandey they intend to showcase candid scenes of raipurs people and culture through their documentaries music videos by raag the banda group of engineering students teamed up in 2008 to make their own music under the moniker raag the band our first experiment which went viral was a parody of kolaveri d in raipurs style named kolaveri cg most of these youngsters already have dslrs the expenses incurred in shooting and promoting their films is considerabe being locals we know the city in and out and are trying our best to connect with the young crowd equipped with handy cams and good ideas they are shooting in the various parts of the city making videos that reflect the culture and opinions of its people their videos are a compilation of peoples opinions on comical or social issues like the traffic problem in the city and