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. She has also written the screenplay of the award-winning feature film Khamosh Pani. Her film production company Parodevi Pictures is based in Mumbai. She writes a column Paro-normal Activity for the Sunday Mid-day and also wrote a weekly column for Mumbai Mirror.
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. Vohra studied mass communication in Miranda House at the University of Delhi (1986 – 1989).
Vohra co-founded Agents of Ishq, an online platform for positively representing sex in India through various media forms. She is also its current creative director. Agents of Ishq has multimedia content in English and Hindi and helps readers access comprehensive sexuality education, focusing on the three aspects of sex education, sexual experience and sexual etiquette. Vohra has indicated that the platform should talk about "desire, freedom, gender, equality, and choice". and a place where young Indians can access the right information about sex.
Filmography + List of films directed by Paromita Vohra Paromita Vohra filmography-director Year Title Language(s) Director Producer Screenplay Other 1995 Annapurna: Goddess of Food English 1999 A Woman's Place English 2000 A Short Film about Time English 2002 Unlimited Girls English Actor 2004 Work In Progress English 2004 Cosmopolis: Two Tales of a City English 2005 Where's Sandra? English 2006Q2PEnglish 2008 Morality TV and the Loving Jehad - Ek Manohar Kahani Hindi, English 2012 Partners in Crime English 2013Connected Hum Tum, Season 1Hindi, EnglishSeries Director + List of films contributed to by Paromita Vohra Paromita Vohra filmography-contributor Year Title Language(s) Producer Screenplay Dialogues Other 1998 Skin Deep Multilingual 2002 A Few Things I Know About Her English, Hindi, Rajasthani 2003 Khamosh Pani/Silent Waters Punjabi 2004 If You Pause - in a Museum of Craft English, Hindi, Rajasthani 2005 The House on Gulmohar avenue English, Hindi Script Consultant
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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) (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) (Review-Unlimited Girls, 2020) Films, Feminism, Paromita (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)