The Department of Visual Arts invites you to the film screening of 

WORKING GIRLS 

A genre-defying documentary that traverses india to uncover the invisible yet essential work performed by women

A film by PAROMITA VOHRA

Date: November 28th, 2025. 5.30 pm

Venue: MULTI PURPOSE HALL, AC 01 (4th floor)

Synopsis: WORKING GIRLS is a vivid, genre-defying documentary that traverses india to uncover the invisible yet essential work performed by women — from care work 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.

With biting humour, powerful music, and a deep dive into the histories of law and gender, Working Girls challenges dominant ideas about labour, value, and visibility.

Directed by Paromita Vohra and created in collaboration with the Laws of Social Reproduction project, the film invites us to rethink what it means to work — and who gets to be seen as a worker.

Bio: Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker, writer and committed antakshari player whose extraordinary body of truth-telling, kinetic and intensely sensuous films, online videos, art installations and television programming, explore feminism, gender, desire, urban life and popular culture. She is the director of several documentaries including Unlimited Girls, Q2P, Where’s Sandra?, Morality TV and the Loving Jehad, Partners in Crime and most recently Working Girls. She has written the film Khamosh Pani/Silent Waters, the comic Priya’s Mirror and the play Ishqiya Dharavi Ishtyle. In 2015 she founded Agents of Ishq, a pioneering digital platform which has transformed conversations on sex, love and desire in India. Her weekly column in Sunday Midday is currently in its 15th year.

See you there!

warm regards,

Visual Arts Department