The NLS Law and Society Archives, in collaboration with the NLS Feminist Alliance (NLSFA), is organising screenings of two films by Paromita Vohra as per the details below:

Screening of Working Girls

• Day & date: Friday, April 17, 2026
• Time: 5:00 PM
• Venue: Allen & Overy Hall, NLSIU
  

(Open to the public with mandatory registration here.) 

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, offering an opportunity to reflect on the film’s themes and its wider feminist and political stakes.

About Working Girls

Working Girls is a vivid, genre-defying film that travels across India to uncover the invisible, yet essential labour performed by women. Moving through Kolkata, Mumbai, Shillong, Latur, Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad and Madurai, the film brings us into the lives of domestic workers, farmers, ASHA workers, dancers, mothers, sex workers, and organisers whose work sustains society but is rarely recognised.

Blending sharp humour, rich music, and a deep engagement with law, gender, and history, the film challenges dominant ideas of labour, value, and visibility. Created in collaboration with the Laws of Social Reproduction Project based at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, the film invites us to rethink what it means to work and who gets to be seen as a worker.

In the run-up to the public screening, there will be a showcase of another of Paromita’s films:

Screening of Unlimited Girls 

• Day & date: Wednesday, April 15, 2026
• Time: 7:30 PM
• Venue: NAB 102, NLSIU

(Open only to the NLS Community) 

About Unlimited Girls (2002):

The landmark documentary by Paromita Vohra, Unlimited Girls is a sharp, playful, and incisive exploration of feminism, media, and popular culture in urban India. Blending documentary with satire, it captures the contradictions, aspirations, and negotiations that shape young women’s lives, making it as relevant today as when it was first released. Watch the trailer here.

The second screening will take place as per the details below:

About the Filmmaker

Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker and writer whose work spans documentaries, television, digital media, and art installations. Her films, including Unlimited Girls, Q2P, Where’s Sandra?, Morality TV and the Loving Jehad, and Partners in Crime, are known for their sharp feminist insight, wit, and formal experimentation. She has also written for cinema, including Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters), and created the comic Priya’s Mirror and the play Ishqiya Dharavi Ishtyle.

In 2015, she founded Agents of Ishq, a pioneering digital platform that has transformed conversations on sex, love, and desire in India. Across her work, Vohra brings together humour, critique, and a deeply sensuous engagement with questions of gender, labour, and everyday life. She has edited Love, Sex And India: The Agents Of Ishq Anthology (Context, 2026) Her weekly column Paronormal Activity ran for 15 years in the Sunday Midday.