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 also writes the column Paro-normal Activity for the Sunday Mid-day and Mumbai Mirror.[4]

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

Biography

Vohra lives in Mumbai. She is the daughter of Shikha Vohra, 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.[5] Vohra studied mass communication in Miranda House at the University of Delhi (1986 – 1989).[6]

Vohra co-founded "Agents of Ishq", an online platform for positively representing sex in India through various media forms. [7] She is also its current creative director.[8] "Agents of Ishq' has multimedia content in English and Hindi[7] and helps readers access comprehensive sexuality education, focusing on the three aspects of sex education, sexual experience and sexual etiquette.[9] Vohra has indicated that the platform should talk about "desire, freedom, gender, equality, and choice".[10] and a place where young Indians can access the right information about sex.[9]

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.[11][12]

Vohra created sound installations for Project Cinema City, a 2012 exhibition on cinema, the city, and archiving contemporary culture, So Near Yet So Far,[13] 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. "Articles by Paromita Vohra". Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  5. Pandya, Sonal (17 October 2016). "Down memory lane: Ashalata Biswas". Cinestan. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  6. Nathan, Archana (2 April 2015). "And I make documentaries". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  7. Almeida, Rhea (December 2018). "How 'Agents of Ishq' is Helping India Talk About Sex". Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  8. "The Team - Agents of Ishq". Agents of Ishq. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. "Priya's Mirror - About". Future of StoryTelling. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  12. "Priya's Mirror - Priya's Shakti". Priya's Shakti. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  13. 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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