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Chai Kreative · The founder

Kewal Kapoor. The oldest material, the newest audience.

केवल कपूर · सबसे पुरानी सामग्री, सबसे नई पीढ़ी।

Researcher, writer and producer-director, with three decades across stories, culture, public systems and AI. Founder, Creator and Partner of Chai Kreative. The job has always been the same: take what India already owns, and make it land on the people least likely to go looking for it.

  • Former Executive Producer, UTV
  • Former Member, FWA Mumbai
  • Former IEC and Media Director, The Poddar Foundation
  • Exclusive implementation partner, Ministry of Labour and Employment
  • Conceived Tulsidas Ji Ki Katha, India's first transmedia katha
  • Spends time in Delhi, Mumbai and Indore, with work presence in Lucknow, Patna and Ranchi
One continuous line · एक ही सिलसिला

Nothing on this list replaced what came before it.

  1. 2001

    Kashmir, without the postcard

    Twenty-six unscripted minutes, with clearance from the Ministry of External Affairs.

  2. 2003

    Searching for Gandhi

    A campaign taken to every school in Delhi; a short film shot at 30 January Marg.

  3. DD

    कर से शिखर

    The first researched, written and presented series on tax law, in thirteen parts.

  4. Radio

    Fever 104

    Twenty-plus short films for the one medium where a weak line cannot hide.

  5. 2015

    Return of a Million Smiles

    A self-funded ageing movement; a CSR Award; partners included GAIL.

  6. Policy

    Second Life

    Exclusive implementation partner to the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

  7. 2022

    Tulsidas Ji Ki Katha

    India’s first transmedia katha: 5.5 lakh viewers in a week, most under 34.

  8. 2024

    Chai Kreative

    The firm is constituted: advisory, research, IEC and intelligence layers.

  9. 2026

    The Granth

    Branding, design and final version of श्री राम लला — मन से मंदिर तक.

The record · गाँठें जो खुलीं

Six knots, and how they were untied.

Culture · 2022

Tulsidas Ji Ki Katha

5.5 lakhviewers in the first seven days; 69% aged 18–34Source · Dainik Bhaskar, 2022Open the knot +
The knotA poet from 1532 with no route to young India.The threadIndia's first transmedia katha: five minutes, one doha, an illustrated world.
Culture · 2003 →

Searching for Gandhi

Everyschool in Delhi reached by the campaignSource · kewalkapoors.comOpen the knot +
The knotA name every child knows and almost none has met.The threadNo slogan: a set of belongings, and a question about their owner.
Public systems · Doordarshan

कर से शिखर

13researched episodes of tax law on national televisionSource · kewalkapoors.comOpen the knot +
The knotA subject nobody believed could be watched.The threadResearch first, then language, then a host who could explain it.
Age · 2015 →

Return of a Million Smiles

CSRAward; partners included GAILSource · kewalkapoors.com; Deccan HeraldOpen the knot +
The knotOld age treated as an exit, and the old-age home as the default.The threadAgeing reframed around dignity and a second life.
Age · policy

Second Life

MoLEexclusive implementation partner, Ministry of Labour and EmploymentSource · kewalkapoors.comOpen the knot +
The knotA country ageing fast, with no language for later life.The threadThe argument that sixty is a beginning, carried into policy thinking.
Tourism · inside the agency

Incredible India

2years on the account, inside the agency teamSource · Credit belongs to the agency that held the mandateOpen the knot +
The knotA country to be sold to itself and to the world.The threadWork contributed from inside the agency team; stated plainly, not dressed up.

Made in a personal capacity or inside other organisations, much of it before the firm was constituted. Institutional and agency credit remains with the respective rights holders. Figures are indicative and sourced as shown.

Faith and age · आस्था और उम्र

Two subjects most firms avoid. Two he has never left.

Faith, as culture people can enter

Tulsidas Ji Ki Katha put a poet from 1532 into a feed built for six-second attention: eight five-minute episodes of ninety planned, one doha each. The Granth, श्री राम लला — मन से मंदिर तक, is two volumes and 1,244 illustrated pages; Chai Kreative did its branding, design and final version (© Ramayan Research Council).

5.5 lakh viewers in seven days · 69% aged 18–34 Dainik Bhaskar, 2022

Age, as a second life

Return of a Million Smiles, founded in 2015, argued that an old-age home is not the default answer, and won a CSR Award with partners including GAIL. The Second Life thinking, that sixty is a beginning and not an exit, was carried to the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

“A society's happiness should be measured by how happy its old people are.”

Kewal Kapoor
The team · लोग

A small table. The right chairs.

KK

Kewal Kapoor

Founder, Creator & Partner

Sets the question, originates the concepts, and holds the firm to its method.

S

Swati

Senior Strategist

Leads strategy and production. Formerly a partner at Lintas, where she executed the Ministry of Tourism's Incredible India account for two years and the awarded 150 years of freedom struggle campaign.

KK

Khushi Kumari

Senior Coordinator · the office

Every letter, call request and document goes through the office, open 24 × 7. One address, one reply, nothing lost.

Write to the office →

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The bench

Eight disciplines · on call

Brought together for each problem, the same day if it needs it. A named roster is shared on request.

Research

तहक़ीक़

Desk, policy and data research

Field & survey

ज़मीनी काम

Surveys, audits and ground reporting

IEC

जानकारी, तालीम, बातचीत

Behaviour and communication planning

Creative & content

कहानी

Ideas, campaigns, writing, story worlds

Design

रूप

Identity, publications, interfaces

Film & audio

परदा और आवाज़

Documentary, katha, radio, podcast

Data & technology

तकनीक

Intelligence layers, automation, e-commerce

Policy & public systems

नीति

Schemes, institutions, governance

Also from the founder · और भी

Beyond the firm, the same line continues.

AI venture

KewalAI

Platform development for health, education and governance programmes: the founder's own AI work, run alongside the firm.

Culture · ongoing

Tulsidas Ji Ki Katha

Eight episodes made of ninety planned. Next: the remaining episodes, a release built on the series artwork, and a one-hour multimedia theatre production.

Watch the episodes ↗

Age · since 2015

Return of a Million Smiles

The movement that argued sixty is a beginning, not an exit. It continues in columns, talks and the Second Life thinking.

Not made yet

The festival calendar

Ramlila, Dussehra and the Diwali mela treated as national cultural properties with a form, a calendar and a route to the world, not as an annual arrangement of lights.

Not made yet

A mehfil in every city

Shayari, qawwali and mushaira as a working circuit, on a schedule, with an audience that turns up because it is on this week.

Open to partners

Build one of these with us

Partnership, patronage and collaboration are welcome, through the office.

Talk to the office
Follow the work · साथ चलिए

Four doors, four kinds of conversation.

Community figures as stated on kewalkapoor.com.

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