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] Her latest documentary is Partners in Crime.[2] She has also written the screenplay of the award-winning feature film Khamosh Pani.[3] Her film production company Parodevi Pictures[4] is based in Mumbai. She also writes the column Paro-normal Activity for the Sunday Mid-day.

Biography

She lives in Mumbai. She has a BA Hons, English Literature from Miranda House at the University of Delhi (1986 – 1989).

Films

Other work

She created sound installations for Project Cinema City a 2012 exhibition on cinema, the city, and archiving contemporary culture, So Near Yet So Far,[7] 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,[8] a multi-media project about sex, love and desire. Or, to put it another way, we make cool video, beautiful images and great audio about sex, love and desire in India.

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. 1 2 Vasudev, Shefalee (23 March 2012). "I am the Item Girl of Documentary Films". The Indian Express. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  3. Kamath, Sudhish (11 February 2005). "Khamosh Pani". The Hindu. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  4. "Parodevi Pictures | About". www.parodevipictures.com. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
  5. Ghosh, Labonita (3 July 2008). "What ails breaking news?". Daily News & Analysis. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  6. Nair, Preetha (17 February 2010). "Making sense of the F-word". India Today. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  7. Nagree, Zeenat (11 May 2012). "Escape routes". TimeOut Mumbai. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  8. "Agents of Ishq". Retrieved 2016-07-07.


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