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

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- Paromita Vohra
- Occupation
- Filmmaker and writer
- Known for
- Making documentaries
- Nationality
- India
- Education
- University of Delhi
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Paromita Vohra is an Indian filmmaker and writer. She is known for her documentaries on subjects such as urban life, desire, pop culture and gender. She has also written the screenplay of the award-winning feature film Khamosh Pani.
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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.
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• Name — Paromita Vohra • Occupation — Filmmaker and writer • Known for — Making documentaries • Notable Works — Khamosh Pani, Unlimited Girls, Q2P • Relatives — Anil Biswas (grandfather) Parul Ghosh (great-aunt)
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Vohra lives in Mumbai. 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 at the University of Delhi (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 and Hindi and helps readers access comprehensive sexuality education, focusing on the three aspects of sex education, sexual experience 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.
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List of films directed by Paromita Vohra • Year — Title — Language(s) — Director — Producer — Screenplay — Other • 1995 — Annapurna: Goddess of Food — English • 1999 — A Woman's Place — English • 2000 — A Short Film about Time — English • 2002 — Unlimited Girls — English — Actor • 2004 — Work In Progress — English • 2004 — Cosmopolis: Two Tales of a City — English • 2005 — Where's Sandra? — English • 2006 — Q2P — English • 2008 — Morality TV and the Loving Jehad - Ek Manohar Kahani — Hindi, English • 2012 — Partners in Crime — English • 2013 — Connected Hum Tum, Season 1 — Hindi, English — Series Director List of films contributed to by Paromita Vohra • Year — Title — Language(s) — Producer — Screenplay — Dialogues — Other • 1998 — Skin Deep — Multilingual • 2002 — A Few Things I Know About Her — English, Hindi, Rajasthani • 2003 — Khamosh Pani/Silent Waters — Punjabi • 2004 — If You Pause - in a Museum of Craft — English, Hindi, Rajasthani • 2005 — The House on Gulmohar avenue — English, Hindi — Script Consultant
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- 1.Aitken, Ian. The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. Routledge. 405. 31 October 2011. 978-0-415-59642-8.
- 2.Kamath, Sudhish. Khamosh Pani. The Hindu. 11 February 2005.
- 3.Parodevi Pictures About. www.parodevipictures.com.
- 4.The 'Women In Labour' Podcast: Filmmaker Paromita Vohra on adopting narratives free of patriarchy. Firstpost. 2020-04-28.
- 5.Articles by Paromita Vohra. August 2025.
- 6.Filmmaker-artist Paromita Vohra's new installation urges to not shy away from pleasures aural and oral. The Indian Express. 2019-12-03.
- 7.Ashalata Biswas. Cinemaazi.
- 8.Pandya, Sonal. Down memory lane: Ashalata Biswas. Cinestan. October 17, 2016.
- 9.Nathan, Archana. And I make documentaries. The Hindu. 2 April 2015.
- 10.Almeida, Rhea. How 'Agents of Ishq' is Helping India Talk About Sex. Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan. December 2018.
- 11.Agents of Ishq. The Team - Agents of Ishq.
- 12.Mantri, Geetika. Singing condoms, podcasts and memes: 'Agents of Ishq' is on a mission to make sex ed fun. The News Minute. September 30, 2016.
- 13.Cook, Ian M. Online Gods Ep 4: Rumours and the Agents of Ishq. Economic and Political Weekly. September 6, 2019.
- 14.Magic Lantern Movies. Partners in Crime - Magic Lanterns Movies.
- 15.WorldCat. The House on Gulmohar Avenue (DVD Video, 2005). 85785293.
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