Paromita Vohra is an Indian filmmaker and writer. She is known for her documentaries on subjects such as urban life, pop culture and gender. She has also written the screenplay of the award-winning feature film ''

Khamosh Pani ''Khamosh Pani'' (Punjabi: (Shahmukhi), ਖ਼ਾਮੋਸ਼ ਪਾਨੀ (Gurmukhi); ''Silent Waters'') is a 2003 Indo-Pakistani film about a widowed mother and her young son living in a Punjabi village as it undergoes radical changes durin ...

''. 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 The ''Mumbai Mirror'' is an Indian English-language newspaper published in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Launched in 2005 as a compact daily newspaper, its coverage focuses on city specific local news and civic issues concerning education, healthcare an ...

Biography

Vohra lives in

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...

. 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 Miranda House is a constituent college for women at the University of Delhi in India. Established in 1948, it is one of the top ranked colleges of the country and ranked as number 1 for consecutively six years (as of 2022). History Miranda ...

at the

University of Delhi Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognized as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) ...

(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 English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

and

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...

and helps readers access comprehensive sexuality education, focusing on the three aspects of

sex education Sex education, also known as sexual education, sexuality education or sex ed, is the instruction of issues relating to human sexuality, including emotional relations and responsibilities, human sexual anatomy, Human sexual activity, sexual acti ...

sexual experience Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually. This involves biological, psychological, physical, erotic, emotional, social, or spiritual feelings and behaviors. Because it is a broad term, which has varied ...

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. With Ram Devineni, Vohra co-wrote ''Priya's Mirror'', the second chapter to ''Priya's Shakti'', a 2016

augmented reality Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience that combines the real world and computer-generated content. The content can span multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory and olfactory. AR can be de ...

infused comic that focuses on

acid attack An acid attack, also called acid throwing, vitriol attack, or vitriolage, is a form of violent assault involving the act of throwing acid or a similarly corrosive substance onto the body of another "with the intention to disfigure, maim, tortu ...

s and

violence against women Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), are violent acts primarily or exclusively committed against women or girls, usually by men or boys. Such violence is often consi ...

. Vohra created sound installations for Project Cinema City, a 2012 exhibition on cinema, the city, and archiving contemporary culture, ''So Near Yet So Far'', which travelled to the

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, Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. She has acted as ‘Aunty 303’ in the

Channel V Channel '' ("V" standing for the letter, not the Roman numeral "5") is a Chinese and former Asian pay television musical network originally launched by Star TV Hong Kong (now Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific). It was part of the unit of Disney ...

promos of the same name. She had a cameo in the film ''

English, August ''English, August: An Indian Story'' is a novel by Indian author Upamanyu Chatterjee written in English, first published in 1988. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1994. The novel portrays the struggle of a civil servant who is po ...

''.

Work

Filmography

References

External links

And I make Documentaries
(April 2, 2015 Interview)
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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Vohra, Paromita Film directors from Mumbai Indian women columnists Indian documentary filmmakers Delhi University alumni Living people Women artists from Maharashtra 21st-century Indian film directors 21st-century Indian women artists Indian women documentary filmmakers Year of birth missing (living people) Indian feminists