Q2P or Bombay Belly-2

In case any of you are in Bombay tomorrow...


Q2P
(Documentary, 55 minutes, DV, English, Hindi)

LOOK AT THE
TOILET ...
... SEE THE CITY


Director: PAROMITA VOHRA
Producer: PUKAR
Camera: AJAY NORONHA
Editing: JABEEN MERCHANT
Sound: ANITA KUSHWAHA and SAMINA MISHRA
Animation: SHILPA RANADE
Music: TARUN SHAHANI and NIRAV GANDHI

When:
FRIDAY 18 AUGUST 2006 at 6.30 p.m.

Where:
Little Theatre
National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA)
Nariman Point, Mumbai 400021

About the Film:

Q2P peers through the dream of a futuristic Bombay and and finds...
public toilets... not enough of them....

Q2P is a film about toilets and the city. It sifts through the dream of
Mumbai as a future Shanghai and searches for public toilets, watching
who has to queue to pee. As the film observes who has access to toilets
and who doesn’t, we begin to also see the imagination of gender that
underlies the city’s shape, the constantly shifting boundaries between
public and private space; we learn of small acts of survival that people
in the city’s bottom half cobble together and quixotic ideas of social
change that thrive with mixed results; we hear the silence that
surrounds toilets and sense how similar it is to the silence that
surrounds inequality. The toilet becomes a riddle with many answers and
some of those answers are questions – about gender, about class, about
caste and most of all about space, urban development and the twisted
myth of the global metropolis.


About the Director:

PAROMITA VOHRA is a filmmaker and writer. Her films as director include
Where’s Sandra, Work In Progress, Cosmopolis: Two Tales of A City,
Unlimited Girls, A Short Film About Time, A Woman’s Place and Annapurna:
Goddess of Food. Her films as writer include the feature Khamosh Pani,
and the documentaries A Few Things I Know About Her, and If You Pause:
In A Museum of Craft and Skin Deep. She teaches scriptwriting as
visiting faculty at the Sophia Polytechnic and is a PUKAR Associate.