Neetu Chandra (b. 1984), an actor across Hindi and southern cinema, is — with her brother Nitin Chandra — a driving force behind the revival of Maithili film. Through their Champaran Talkies, they produced Mithila Makhaan, the first Maithili film to win a National Film Award (2016), and worked to build platforms for regional cinema from the Mithila belt.
A trained Bharatanatyam dancer and martial artist, she has used her national profile to push Maithili stories onto a bigger stage.