'Cool Ladies Club' is directed by 10 working-class women. They live up to the title

Published June 13, 2026 · Category: News

Overview

These ten women from a working-class neighborhood in Mumbai were completely new to film-making. They got smart phones and started filming their lives. Here they pose with filmmaker Shilpi Gulati, taught them filmmaking basics. Gulati, wearing red, stands at the far right in the second row.

They gave smartphones to 10 women from a working-class Indian community to make a documentary about their unseen and unheralded lives. The results are .... pretty cool.

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(Image credit: Mangesh Gudekar/School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS.
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