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 writes a column Paro-normal Activity for the Sunday Mid-day[4] and also wrote a weekly column for Mumbai Mirror.[5]
Paromita Vohra | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Filmmaker and writer |
| Known for | Making documentaries |
| Notable work | Khamosh Pani, Unlimited Girls, Q2P |
| Relatives | Anil Biswas (grandfather) Parul Ghosh (great-aunt) |
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]
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 attacks and violence against women.[14][15]
Vohra created sound installations for Project Cinema City, a 2012 exhibition on cinema, the city, and archiving contemporary culture, So Near Yet So Far,[16] 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.
| 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 [citation needed] | ||
| 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 |
| 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 |