This film made for HAQ: Centre for Child Rights, by Shibani Chaudhury, is an exploration of the lives of women and adolescent girls in Rajasthan and Bengal in India who have resisted, or risen beyond, child marriage. Threaded through conversations with 8 'Warriors' aged between 15-67 years, the film catches the courage and resilience in their journeys of resistance. The stories demonstrate how crucial advocacy and awareness is for people with individual courage to access agency, justice and delivery of rights; equally it reflects how important it is to shift thought and break regressive social practices.

Come Together Preventing Child Marriage in India 

A HAQ: Centre for Child Rights Film

Direction and Screen Play by Avijit Dutt

This film is based on HAQ' s  project- Strengthening Governance to Prevent Child Marriage being implemented in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh. HAQ: Centre for Child Rights along with its partners Jabala and MV Foundation  has demonstrated that with a strong convergence of government systems and community efforts, child marriages can be prevented.

The actors in the film are not professionals. They are from the community, and several of them are persons who work on preventing child marriages in their area, in their official capacity or as concerned members of the society.

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