Chal Rang De: Walk and immerse yourself in delightful art filled with colors in Mumbai’s Asalpha village

Mumbai, January 15: Mumbai’s slums have their own stories to tell: stories of struggles, a journey of life, innocence, fights, festivals etc. But Asalpha village of Ghatkopar slums got colourful stories after Dedeepya Reddy, founder ‘Chal Rang De’ and the woman who decided to beautify Mumbai’s slums. 

Every creative side has the back of woman’s soul! From dingy to flamboyant was the transformation of Asalpha village of Ghatkopar. The ‘Chal Rang De’ team with the help of 750 volunteers has painted 170 walls and created 17 murals. Founder Dedeepya reached out to professional mural artists where artists from all over the country contributed to making someone else’s living space more evocative. 

 

Every piece of art on these walls is either a reflection of the slum dwellers or a message to them. “We want to promote this place as a must-visit place when you’re here in Bombay. We’re creating curated tours for people; we are going to be training the local boys to take people around so they also make more money out of this.”

Dedeepya Reddy, Founder Chal Rang De

“If you walk through this place, you just see that it’s really inclusive and it’s really intimate, like you get out of your own house and you’re into someone else’s. Adding aesthetics, adding colours, adding vibrance, adding just the environment and emotion out here is something, that I as an artist loved to do,” said one of the volunteers Shrujan Shah who is also an artist.