Paromita Vohra

Paromita Vohra
Nationality Indian
Occupation Filmmaker and writer
Known for Making documentaries

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 also writes the column Paro-normal Activity for the Sunday Mid-day.

Biography

Vohra lives in Mumbai. She studied mass communication in Miranda House at the University of Delhi (1986 – 1989).[4]

Films

  • 2011: Partners in Crime[5]
  • 2007 : Morality TV and the Loving Jehad[6]
  • 2006: Q2P
  • 2006: Where's Sandra?
  • 2004: Cosmopolis: Two Tales of a City
  • 2002: Unlimited Girls[7]
  • 2004: Work in Progress
  • 1998: A Woman's Place
  • 1995: Annapurna: Goddess of Food
  • 2000: A Short Film about Time

Other works

Vohra created sound installations for Project Cinema City, a 2012 exhibition on cinema, the city, and archiving contemporary culture, So Near Yet So Far,[8] 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.

She has developed Agents of Ishq,[9] a multi-media project about sex, love and desire.

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. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
  4. ↑ Nathan, Archana (2 April 2015). "And I make documentaries". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  5. ↑ Vasudev, Shefalee (23 March 2012). "I am the Item Girl of Documentary Films". The Indian Express. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  6. ↑ Ghosh, Labonita (3 July 2008). "What ails breaking news?". Daily News & Analysis. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  7. ↑ Nair, Preetha (17 February 2010). "Making sense of the F-word". India Today. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  8. ↑ Nagree, Zeenat (11 May 2012). "Escape routes". TimeOut Mumbai. Archived from the original on 1 November 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  9. ↑ "Agents of Ishq". Retrieved 2016-07-07.



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