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Where's Sandra? (18 min)
Paromita Vohra
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At the most literal level, this film is about the Christian women of Bombay who created a certain space for women...
But they also embodied a certain spirit - of fun, of pleasure and a certain chutzpah. This generation of women doesn't know that we owe something to them, for being out there first where we so easily are today.
I searched for a way to explore the stereotype of Christians more gently - through the aspects of fantasy that exist in the idea of the sexy, supposedly available but actually unattainable Christian woman. I've tried to stay away from dismantling stereotypes in the film, tending instead to create my own notion of this figure by taking my own and others' ideas of Sandra, and weaving in Bollywood imagery and interviews with women actually named Sandra living in Bandra.
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