[Reader-list] [DFA NewsLetter] Fwd: Delhi Screenings of Paromita Vohra's films

[Rahul Roy]

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From: Paromita Vohra <parodevi at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Subject: Delhi Screenings of some of my films
To: Paromita Vohra <parodevi at gmail.com>


Hi

Some films of mine will be shown in Delhi on September 10th - in case you'd
like to see or know someone who  might.

Best

Paromita

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YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITE TO A SCREENING OF

ANNAPURNA: GODDESS OF FOOD (25 MIN)
COSMOPOLIS: TWO TALES OF A CITY (13 MIN)
WHERE'S SANDRA? (18 MIN)
UNLIMITED GIRLS (94 MIN)

WHEN
Thursday, September 10, 2009
5:00pm - 8:30pm

WHERE
Hall of Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication
Sri Aurobindo Society, Delhi Branch, Adhchini, Shaheed Jeetsingh Marg, Delhi

FOR ENQUIRES
Phone:
265619867
Email:
shankhajeet at gmail.com




  ABOUT THE FILMS

WHERE¹S SANDRA?
Doc./Short, Digital Video, 17.30 min.
English

Producer: Celebrate Bandra Trust Director: Paromita Vohra Camera: Avijit
Mukul Kishore  Editing: Jabeen Merchant, Sankalp Meshram  Sound: Anita
Kushwaha
Actors: Tuhinaa Vohra, Sonali Verma, Rachel Lopez

FORMATS: DVD, VCD
VERSIONS: English


Who¹s Sandra? If you saw her would you know here? Is she naughty or nice?
And where is she, anyway? The film is a playful look at the figure of
³Sandra from Bandra² ­ part covetous fantasy of the racy Christian girl from
Bombay who works as a secretary, wears a dress and likes to dance; part
condescending stereotype of a dowdy, religious girl from a minority
community. The film searches for Sandra in Bollywood films, in the words of
writers and poets and the stones in church graveyards. We encounter various
claimants to the title ­ some who aren¹t called Sandra and some who aren¹t
even from Bandra ­ until finally finding 5 women really called Sandra who
are all as different from each other as can be even if they are a little bit
the same.


COSMOPOLIS: TWO TALES OF A CITY
(Short/ doc: 13 minutes)
English, Hindi, Marathi with English subtitles

PRODUCER :    DEVI PICTURES          DIRECTOR:       PAROMITA VOHRA
FORMATS:       VHS, DVD, VCD         VERSIONS:          ENGLISH

In two discrete but associated shorts, this film looks at divisions of
language, class, memory and food and  queries the myths of Bombay as a great
cosmopolitanism city.


TALE 1: THE FORGOTTEN CITY (1 min.17 sec)

CAMERA:  Mrinal Desai, Arun Varma
SOUND:     Paromita Vohra
EDITING:   Jabeen Merchantnt


A poem called Mumbai, about a city built by workers. A skyline where mill
chimneys are replaced by glinting, cylindrical highrises, that mimic their
shape, but do not hold their memory. A singer who recites the names of train
stations, a map in song. In the eye of change,a forgotten city.
 the eye of change, a forgotten city.


TALE 2: DEFEAT OF A MINOR GODDESS (12 min)
CAMERA: Setu
SOUND:    Gissy Michael, Hari M, Vipin Bhati
EDITING: Kavita Pai
This is a film about food and faith. Anapurna, the goddess of food, a
gorgeous meal of fish. Pleased, she blesses the city with gastronomic
abundance and even reigns as its (very popular) patron deity. However, very
soon she faces competition with the arrival her sister, Laxmi, the goddess
of wealth. The rivalry between the goddesses manages to divide the city with
all the classical intrigue, insecurity and jealousy that make up a good old
fashioned battle. The city spirals into an escalating war over food and
property, livelihood and living. Vegetarians don¹t want to live with
non-vegetarians, Saraswat Brahmins don¹t want Jain neighbours and
fishmongers don¹t want people of other communities to sell fish.
Interweaving the fictional war between the goddesses with a documentary
exploration of Bombay¹s food politics, the film interrogates the divisive
politics that characterizes contemporary Bombay under its cosmopolitan
costume.


UNLIMITED GIRLS

Digital Video,94 min
English, Hindi, Marathi


Producer:   Sakshi Director:    Paromita Vohra, Camera:     Mrinal Desai
Editing:     Jabeen Merchant  Sound:       Subir Das

 UnLimited Girls is an exploration of engagements with feminism in
contemporary urban India. It is told through the conversations of a narrator
called Fearless who starts accidentally in a chatroom and embarks on a
journey where she encounters diverse characters - feminists who remember the
songs and actions of the Indian women¹s movement, yuppies who discuss their
modern marriage, a policeman writing films for ³women¹s upliftment²,  women
shopping at a bra sale,  college kids practicing a dance, teachers who feel
girls must not take injustice ­ or break a home;  a woman cab driver,  a
priest,  academics, activists, and unseen but much-heard women like
Atilla_the_Nun, ChamkiGirl and Devi_is_a_Diva, in a feminist chatroom ­ all
talking of their engagements with feminism and its place in their lives
today.


The film uses a personally reflective tone and playfully eclectic form,
mixes non-fiction and fiction, to ask questions about feminism in our lives:
why must women lead double lives, being feminist but not saying they are.
How do we remain politically engaged as individuals who will not join
groups? If feminism changes the way we live, then do we change the meaning
of feminism as we live it? And then how do we separate true feminists from
false ones? Will X-ray vision work better, or female intuition - or is there
a common set of principles in this multiply interpreted philosophy? How do
we make sense of love and anger, doubt and confusion, the personal and the
political  in this enterprise of pushing the boundaries, of being un-limited
- the enterprise we call feminism.

 UnLimited Girls is set in urban India, but its themes resonate in the lives
of people all over the world who have sampled the fruits of feminism, along
with its dilemmas; who have asked the questions which have reshaped their
lives and changed the world.


ANNAPURNA\GODDESS OF FOOD
Betacam, Documentary, 25 minutes,
Hindi, Marathi, with English Subtitles

Producer: T.Jayashree
Director :   Paromita Vohra  Camera:     Manoj Nair/Arun Varma  Sound:
Resul Pokutty/Mohan  Dass  Editing:      Pankaj Rishi Kumar

Set in the lanes and by lanes of central Bombay¹s mill area, the film is a
portrait of a women¹s co-operative named Annapurna.

Started in 1975 by 14 khanawalwalis ­ women who prepared meals for migrant
workers, thus earning the name food-lady ­ the organization has today
swelled to a membership of 150,000 and has it¹s own credit co-operative
bank, short-stay home and catering centre.

The film observes the everyday life of these women and intertwines it with
the story of how the organization grew. An exploration of the politics and
economics of women¹s work, the film is a tribute to the fearless women who
started Annapurna, and the feisty women who carry it on.

The film is part of an international series on women¹s initiatives entitled
Half the Sky : Women of the World,  made for the Beijing conference, in
1995. It has been telecast in 11 countries.




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Paromita Vohra
DEVI PICTURES
D404, Trans Apartments
Mahakali Caves Road
Andheri (E)
Bombay 400093
Tel: 91.22.28377960
Cell: 91.9819377960
Email:parodevi at gmail.com <Email%3Aparodevi at gmail.com>

"The Emperor has no clothes"






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