IISER MOHALI

Synopsis: WORKING GIRLS (2025) is a 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 and writer whose extraordinary body of truth-telling, kinetic, and intensely sensuous films, online videos, art installations, and television programming explores 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 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 that has transformed conversations on sex, love and desire in India. Her weekly column in Sunday Midday is currently in its 15th year.