Paromita Vohra

Movies

Partners In Crime
Director
This film deals with questions about the nature of the piracy problem and how it breeds among the broader population.
Q2P
Director
Director Paromita Vohra's novel film explores the dearth of public lavatories in Mumbai, India, focusing on the scarcity of women's restrooms throughout the city. In looking at who has to "queue to pee," Vohra delves into other social issues such as gender, class, caste and urban growth in this incisive journey into a usually unmentionable topic. Q2P won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2007 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.
Silent Waters
Writer
Ayesha is a widow with a secret past, living with her beloved son Saleem in a small town in Pakistan close to the Indian border. When the fires of Islamic nationalism invade their tranquil lives, Saleem and a few of the town's other young men are soon gripped by a religious fervour, and they attempt to bring radical Islamic law to their friends and neighbours. After a group of Sikh pilgrims arrive in town, tensions reach boiling point as Ayesha's haunted past comes rushing back.
Unlimited Girls
Director
Mixing non-fiction and fiction, Unlimited Girls follows Fearless explorations and conversations: wondering why women must always lead double lives, being feminist but not saying they are. If feminism changes the way we live, then do we change the meaning of feminism as we live it? Fearless returns to the feminist chat-room peopled by talkative feminist ladies who become her friend, to probe and argue and ask and constantly question what she sees and feels. In the end does she lose or confirm her ambivalence? Does she decide to own the label "Feminist" or does she decide it is irrelevant in these post-modern times?
राम के नाम
Production Assistant
The film explores the campaign waged by the Hindu right-wing organisation Vishva Hindu Parishad to build a Ram temple at the site of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, as well as the communal violence that it triggered. A couple of months after Ram ke Naam was released, VHP activists demolished the Babri Masjid in 1992, provoking further violence.