Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker, writer, and avid antakshari player whose work delves into feminism, desire, urban life, and popular culture. Her extraordinary body of work spans films, online videos, art installations, television programs, and writing, fluidly navigating between the mainstream and the alternative. Her pieces have garnered numerous awards and have been exhibited at prestigious venues like the Tate Modern, the Wellcome Trust, and the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), and they feature in syllabi across the globe.
Vohra is renowned for pioneering new forms of documentary storytelling, blending fiction and non-fiction into playful-essay forms. Some of her most notable films include Unlimited Girls, Q2P (focused on toilets and gender), Where’s Sandra?, Morality TV and the Loving Jehad, and Partners in Crime, as well as the popular TV series Connected Hum Tum.
She has also written the feature film Khamosh Pani, the comic Priya’s Mirror, and the play Ishqiya Dharavi Ishtyle. Her fiction and non-fiction writing have been widely published, and her weekly column Paro-normal Activity is now in its 15th year.
Additionally, she is the founder of Agents of Ishq, a dynamic community project on sex, love, and desire for Indians.
