Paromita Vohra
Biographic Data
| ID | 3921890 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paromita Vohra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paromita |
| FAMILY NAME | Vohra |
| SIGNATURE | VOHRA P |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-3816-0147 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Caramel connections
While the film Pathaan , at the time of its release in 2023, was read in terms of its overt political messaging and against the backdrop of a majoritarian political culture, this article sees Pathaan ’s political work as more subterranean. Pathaan functions as a kind of memory box connecting viewers through a web of sensed memories, which I call caramel connections , of cinema and their unspoken connections and implications of heterogeneity. The …
Andolan Imaginaries
The authors offer andolan/protest imaginaries, meditations that move between the heady inspirations of current protests and the stultifying violence of state practices in South Asia. Each contributor speaks of sight lines of possibility and peril, even as they struggle to inhabit a divided and ravaged landscape. For Paromita Vohra and Anjali Arondekar, andolan gardens grow into supply chains that may or may not create food for thought and struggl…
Dotting the I
This essay by cutting edge film-maker, Paromita Vohra, examines the politics of documentary practice in the South Asian, and particularly Indian, context. Critiquing the historically left-liberal, ‘voice-of-God’ approach to film-making that foregrounded the political activism of the film-maker, the author places her own work in a new genre of documentary practice that has taken hold over the last decade in South Asia. This form of film-making com…
Separation Anxiety
About the Contributors
Dotting the I
This essay by cutting edge film-maker, Paromita Vohra, examines the politics of documentary practice in the South Asian, and particularly Indian, context. Critiquing the historically left-liberal, ‘voice-of-God’ approach to film-making that foregrounded the political activism of the film-maker, the author places her own work in a new genre of documentary practice that has taken hold over the last decade in South Asia. This form of film-making com…
Separation Anxiety
About the Contributors
Dotting the I
This essay by cutting edge film-maker, Paromita Vohra, examines the politics of documentary practice in the South Asian, and particularly Indian, context. Critiquing the historically left-liberal, ‘voice-of-God’ approach to film-making that foregrounded the political activism of the film-maker, the author places her own work in a new genre of documentary practice that has taken hold over the last decade in South Asia. This form of film-making com…
Andolan Imaginaries
The authors offer andolan/protest imaginaries, meditations that move between the heady inspirations of current protests and the stultifying violence of state practices in South Asia. Each contributor speaks of sight lines of possibility and peril, even as they struggle to inhabit a divided and ravaged landscape. For Paromita Vohra and Anjali Arondekar, andolan gardens grow into supply chains that may or may not create food for thought and struggl…
Caramel connections
While the film Pathaan , at the time of its release in 2023, was read in terms of its overt political messaging and against the backdrop of a majoritarian political culture, this article sees Pathaan ’s political work as more subterranean. Pathaan functions as a kind of memory box connecting viewers through a web of sensed memories, which I call caramel connections , of cinema and their unspoken connections and implications of heterogeneity. The …
South Asian Cinema and Culture (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Documentary film (2 works) · Film director (2 works) · History (2 works)