Paromita Vohra

Paromita Vohra is an Indian filmmaker and writer. She is known for her documentaries on subjects such as urban life, pop culture and gender.[1] She has also written the screenplay of the award-winning feature film Khamosh Pani.[2] Her film production company Parodevi Pictures[3] is based in Mumbai. She writes a column Paro-normal Activity for the Sunday Mid-day[4] and also wrote a weekly column for Mumbai Mirror.[5]

Paromita Vohra
NationalityIndian
OccupationFilmmaker and writer
Known forMaking documentaries
Notable work
Unlimited Girls, Q2P

Biography

Vohra lives in Mumbai.[6] She is the daughter of Shikha Vohra,[7] who in turn was the daughter of the music composer Anil Biswas by his first wife Ashalata Biswas, an actress who worked in Hindi cinema during the 1930s and 1940.[8] Vohra studied mass communication in Miranda House at the University of Delhi (1986 – 1989).[9]

Vohra co-founded "Agents of Ishq", an online platform for positively representing sex in India through various media forms. [10] She is also its current creative director.[11] "Agents of Ishq' has multimedia content in English and Hindi[10] and helps readers access comprehensive sexuality education, focusing on the three aspects of sex education, sexual experience and sexual etiquette.[12] Vohra has indicated that the platform should talk about "desire, freedom, gender, equality, and choice".[13] and a place where young Indians can access the right information about sex.[12]

With Ram Devineni, Vohra co-wrote Priya's Mirror, the second chapter to Priya's Shakti, a 2016 augmented reality infused comic that focuses on acid attack and gender violence.[14][15]

Vohra created sound installations for Project Cinema City, a 2012 exhibition on cinema, the city, and archiving contemporary culture, So Near Yet So Far,[16] which travelled to the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. She has acted as ‘Aunty 303’ in the Channel V promos of the same name. She had a cameo in the film English, August.

Work

Filmography
List of films directed by Paromita Vohra [filmography 1]
Year Title Language(s) Director Producer Screenplay Other
1995 Annapurna: Goddess of Food English Yes Yes
1999 A Woman's Place English Yes
1999 A Short Film about Time English Yes Yes Yes
2002 Unlimited Girls English Yes Actor
2004 Work In Progress English Yes
2004 Work In Progress English Yes
2004 Cosmopolis: Two Tales of a City English Yes
2005 Where's Sandra? English Yes
2007 Morality TV and the Loving Jehad - Ek Manohar Kahani Hindi, English Yes
2011 Partners in Crime English Yes
List of films contributed to by Paromita Vohra [filmography 2]
Year Title Language(s) Producer Screenplay Dialogues Other
1998 Skin Deep Multilingual Yes
2002 A Few Things I Know About Her English, Hindi, Rajasthani Yes
2003 Khamosh Pani/Silent Waters Punjabi Yes
2004 If You Pause - in a Museum of Craft English, Hindi, Rajasthani Yes
2005 The House on Gulmohar avenue English, Hindi Script Consultant

Filmography
  1. Paromita Vohra filmography-director
  2. Paromita Vohra filmography-contributor

References
  1. Aitken, Ian (31 October 2011). The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. Routledge. p. 405. ISBN 978-0-415-59642-8. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  2. Kamath, Sudhish (11 February 2005). "Khamosh Pani". The Hindu. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  3. "Parodevi Pictures | About". www.parodevipictures.com. Archived from the original on 25 March 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  4. "The 'Women In Labour' Podcast: Filmmaker Paromita Vohra on adopting narratives free of patriarchy - Living News , Firstpost". Firstpost. 28 April 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  5. "Articles by Paromita Vohra". Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  6. "Filmmaker-artist Paromita Vohra's new installation urges to not shy away from pleasures aural and oral". The Indian Express. 3 December 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  7. "Ashalata Biswas". Cinemaazi. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  8. Pandya, Sonal (17 October 2016). "Down memory lane: Ashalata Biswas". Cinestan. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  9. Nathan, Archana (2 April 2015). "And I make documentaries". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  10. Almeida, Rhea (December 2018). "How 'Agents of Ishq' is Helping India Talk About Sex". Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  11. "The Team - Agents of Ishq". Agents of Ishq. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  12. Mantri, Geetika (30 September 2016). "Singing condoms, podcasts and memes: 'Agents of Ishq' is on a mission to make sex ed fun". The News Minute. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  13. Cook, Ian M; Udupa, Sahana (6 September 2019). "Online Gods Ep 4: Rumours and the Agents of Ishq". Economic and Political Weekly. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  14. "Priya's Mirror - About". Future of StoryTelling. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  15. "Priya's Mirror - Priya's Shakti". Priya's Shakti. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  16. Nagree, Zeenat (11 May 2012). "Escape routes". TimeOut Mumbai. Archived from the original on 1 November 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
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