Paromita Vohra
Paromita Vohra | |
|---|---|
| Occupations | Filmmaker and writer |
| Known for | Making documentaries |
| Notable work | Khamosh Pani, Unlimited Girls, Q2P |
| Relatives | Anil Biswas (grandfather) Parul Ghosh (great-aunt) |
Paromita Vohra is an Indian filmmaker and writer. She is known for her documentaries on subjects such as urban life, desire, 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]
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]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Language(s) | Director | Producer | Screenplay | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Annapurna: Goddess of Food | English | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1999 | A Woman's Place | English | Yes | |||
| 2000 | A Short Film about Time | English | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2002 | Unlimited Girls | English | Yes | Actor | ||
| 2004 | Work In Progress | English | Yes | |||
| 2004 | Cosmopolis: Two Tales of a City | English | Yes | |||
| 2005 | Where's Sandra? | English | Yes | |||
| 2006 | Q2P | English | Yes | |||
| 2008 | Morality TV and the Loving Jehad - Ek Manohar Kahani | Hindi, English | Yes | |||
| 2012 | Partners in Crime | English | Yes | |||
| 2013 | Connected Hum Tum, Season 1 | Hindi, English | Series Director |
| 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
- ^ Paromita Vohra filmography-director
- "Goddess of Food - Magic Lanterns Movies". Magic Lantern Movies. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- "A Woman's Place - Magic Lanterns Movies". Magic Lantern Movies. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- "A Short Film About Time - BFI". British Film Institute. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- "Unlimited Girls - Magic Lanterns Movies". Magic Lantern Movies. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- "Work in Progress - Magic Lanterns Movies". Magic Lantern Movies. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- "Cosmopolis - Magic Lanterns Movies". Magic Lantern Movies. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- "Where's Sandra? - Magic Lanterns Movies". Magic Lantern Movies. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- "Q2P - Magic Lanterns Movies". Magic Lantern Movies. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- "Morality TV and the Loving Jehad - PSBT". Public Service Broadcasting Trust. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- "Partners in Crime - Magic Lanterns Movies". Magic Lantern Movies. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- ^ Paromita Vohra filmography-contributor
- "Skin Deep". Majlis. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- A few things I know about her (DVD Video, 2002). WorldCat. OCLC 773789002.
- "Khaamosh Pani:Silent Waters". IMDb. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- "IIHS Library Catalog - If you Pause - Details for in a Museum of Craft". Indian Institute for Human Settlements. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- The House on Gulmohar Avenue (DVD Video, 2005). WorldCat. OCLC 85785293.
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Kamath, Sudhish (11 February 2005). "Khamosh Pani". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 29 May 2005. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ^ "Parodevi Pictures | About". www.parodevipictures.com. Archived from the original on 25 March 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
- ^ "The 'Women In Labour' Podcast: Filmmaker Paromita Vohra on adopting narratives free of patriarchy". Firstpost. 28 April 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ "Articles by Paromita Vohra". Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Ashalata Biswas". Cinemaazi. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ Pandya, Sonal (17 October 2016). "Down memory lane: Ashalata Biswas". Cinestan. Archived from the original on 14 October 2019. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ^ Nathan, Archana (2 April 2015). "And I make documentaries". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
- ^ a b Almeida, Rhea (December 2018). "How 'Agents of Ishq' is Helping India Talk About Sex". Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "The Team - Agents of Ishq". Agents of Ishq. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
External links
- Separation Anxiety: The Schisms and Schemas of Media Advocacy; An Indian Filmmaker Working in the World (Paper by Paromita Vohra published by The University of Chicago Press, 2008)
- An evening with Indian filmmaker/writer Paromita Vohra (Lecture - Brandeis University, 2010)
- Dancing to His Own Bollywood Tune By Paromita Vohra for WSJ opinion, 2011)
- On the Aesthetics and Ideology of the Indian Documentary Film: A Conversation (By Arvind Rajagopalan & Paromita Vohra, for BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2012)
- 'Queue to Pee' raises a stink about toilets (Article for DNA India on Q2P, 2013)
- [1] (Vogue India, August 2014)
- And I make Documentaries (April 2, 2015 Interview)
- Remaking the “Political” in Social Documentary (Interview Paromita Vohra - Camera Obscura 1 May 2017)
- Films work by form (March 19, 2017 Interview)
- Each Journey Is Different And Valid, As Long As There Is Consent: Paromita Vohra (July 12, 2018 Interview)
- Interview: Paromita Vohra - TARSHI (August 1, 2018 Interview)
- [2] (Review-Unlimited Girls, 2020)
- Films, Feminism, Paromita Archived 20 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine (Podcast Interview - Paromita Vohra, Jan 2020)
- The Stories We Tell (Podcast by Women in Labour, Apr 2020)
- Public Displays of Affection with Paromita Vohra (Podcast Interview - Marine Lines with Raghu Karnad, 2021)
- Without-pleasure-politics-there-can-be-no-meaningful (Interview for Indian Express, October 2021)
- Is distance learning an equaliser in an unequal education system? (Article for Goethe-Institut, October 2021)
- How Dare You? (Article by Paromita Vohra for socialtextjournal.org, April 2023)
- Interview Paromita Vohra - The Third Eye (May 4, 2023)
- Vasantasena’s Lychpin, Memory Games and Re-Membering in Pathaan: A Reading in Three Scenes – Paromita Vohra (July 3, 2023)