Working Girls

Photo credit: Still from the film ‘Working Girls’

Join us for the screening of Working Girls, 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, building on their research, the film invites us to rethink what it means to work—and who gets to be seen as a worker.

This screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.

Credits

Writer-Director- Paromita Vohra
Concept- Prabha Kotiswaran
Camera- Avijit Mukul Kishore
Editing- Nishant Radhakrishnan, Sankalp Meshram
Sound- Achuth Sahadevan, Namshad Hameed, Rajesh Saseendran, Sneha Sundar, and others
Music- Bonnie Chakraborty
Sound mix- Gissy Michael