Episode 13 - The Stories We Tell

Women in Labour

“Movies where women's issues are discussed become referendums on the issue: should women work or not? Should women be attacked or not? They're never about women's lives.” In this episode of Women in Labour, filmmaker, Paromita Vohra talks about adopting a narrative that is independent of the patriarchy. And of deciding for ourselves who we are and who we want to be. With special guest Paromita Vohra: Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker, writer, and dedicated antakshari player, whose work explores urban life, popular culture, love, desire, and feminism. She is the founder and creative director of Agents of Ishq, India’s best-loved website about sex and desire. She has directed the path-making films Partners in Crime, Morality TV and the Loving Jehad, Q2P, Where’s Sandra, Cosmopolis: Two Tales of a City, Un-limited Girls, and The Consent Lavani among others, and the television series Connected Hum Tum, written the feature Khamosh Pani, the play Ishqiya Dharavi Ishtyle, and the comic Priya’s Mirror. Her fiction and non-fiction writing has been widely published and she writes a weekly opinion column Paronormal Activity in the Sunday Midday. MORE TO READ. This 2018 TARSHI interview (in two parts) with Paromita: http://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/interview-paromita-vohra/ This ‘The Spool’ interview with Paromita: https://thespool.in/paromita-vohra/ Paromita’s column ‘Paronormal Activity’ in the Mid-day: https://www.mid-day.com/search/paromita-vohra-articles MORE TO LISTEN. Episode 155 of Amit Varma’s The Seen and The Unseen with Paromita: https://seenunseen.in/episodes/2020/1/13/episode-155-films-feminism-paromita/ Episode 133 of The Sandip Roy show podcast by Indian Express: https://indianexpress.com/audio/the-sandip-roy-show/sex-and-other-pleasures-a-chat-with-paromita-vohra/6016935/ MORE TO WATCH. ‘Unlimited Girls’: https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/452/Unlimited-Girls Agents of Ishq’s ‘Aika to the Baika: Police Complaint Lavani’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9doWA12B_U A BIG THANKS Women In Labour is generously supported by a grant from the American Center, New Delhi. All opinions, findings, and conclusions are those of Women In Labour and its hosts only — and do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Department of State.