We invite you for an evening that celebrates women’s voices and unseen work through Working Girls, a documentary that blends wit, rhythm, and reflection. With wit, music, and heart, it challenges what we call ​“work” — and who gets to be seen as a ​“worker.”

Working Girls is a vivid, genre-defying documentary that traverses India to uncover the invisible yet essential work performed by women — from care and domestic work to surrogacy and sex work. Filmed in Kolkata, Mumbai, Shillong, Latur, Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad and Madurai, the film meets domestic workers, farmers, mothers, ASHA workers, dancers, and organisers whose labour sustains society but is rarely acknowledged.

The documentary uncovers the invisible labour of women across India — from domestic workers to dancers, sex workers to mothers, farmers to surrogates.

We will have Paromita Vohra with us for the screening. 

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About the filmmaker

Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker and writer who works with a range of forms, including film, comics, digital media, installation art and writing to explore themes of feminism, desire, sexuality and popular culture. In 2013 Time Out Mumbai listed her as one of 10 artists who changed the way Indians watch films. Her work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern, England; the Wellcome Gallery and the National Gallery of Modern Art, broadcast internationally and is taught in universities worldwide.

In 2015 she founded Agents of Ishq, an award-winning digital platform which transformed conversations on sex, love and desire for young Indians. She is currently its Creative Director. 

Her films as director include the documentaries Unlimited Girls, Q2P, Where’s Sandra? and Morality TV and the Loving Jehad: Ek Manohar Kahani, among others and a series of short musical films including The Amorous Adventures of Megha and Shakku in the Valley of Consent. She is the writer of the fiction feature Khamosh Pani/​Silent Waters, the documentaries Skin Deep, Stuntmen of Bollywood, and If You Pause; the play Ishqiya: Dharavi Ishtyle; and the comic Priya’s Mirror. Her fiction and non-fiction writings are widely published and she writes a weekly newspaper column, Paro-normal Activity in Sunday Mid-day.