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Cool Ladies Club Mast Mahila Mandali

Directed by Anjum Shaikh, Darshana Mayekar, Gauri Rane, Kavita Ghuge, Kavita Khomne, Nazneen Siddiqui, Rehana Shaikh, Rohini Kadam, Sheetal Navle, Shilpi Gulati and Vaishali Mane

Screening at DIFF 2026

Sat31 to Saturday 31 Oct · PictureTime 1
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Runtime
72 min
Year
2026
Country
India
Language
Hindi, Marathi
Subtitles
English

Synopsis

Ten women from the eastern suburbs of Mumbai sign up for a filmmaking workshop. Not even knowing where the record button is, they plunge into a messy, immersive process of making a film together. Stealing time away from family and daily chores, they turn the camera on themselves and each other, capturing life of the city’s working-class, while talking about husbands, murders, toilets, and everything in between. Evolved from an 18-month process in co-creation, Mast Mahila Mandali is a riotous, plotless, genre-bending documentary about how women labour, love, and claim joy in everyday life.

Director

Anjum Shaikh, Darshana Mayekar, Gauri Rane, Kavita Ghuge, Kavita Khomne, Nazneen Siddiqui, Rehana Shaikh, Rohini Kadam, Sheetal Navle, Shilpi Gulati and Vaishali Mane Anjum Shaikh, Darshana Mayekar, Gauri Rane, Kavita Ghuge, Kavita Khomne, Nazneen Siddiqui, Rehana Shaikh, Rohini Kadam, Sheetal Navle, Shilpi Gulati and Vaishali ManeAnjum Shaikh, Darshana Mayekar, Gauri Rane, Kavita Khomne, Rehana Shaikh, Kavita Ghuge, Nazneen Siddiqui, Rohini Kadam, Sheetal Nawle and Vaishali Mane are community leaders, sanitation workers, toilet operators and daily wage earners from Mumbai’s M East Ward. They are all associated with the Right to Pee Campaign, a…

Cast and crew

Producer
CORO India
Cinematographer
Anjum Shaikh, Darshana Mayekar, Gauri Rane, Kavita Ghuge, Kavita Khomne, Nazneen Siddiqui, Rehana Shaikh, Rohini Kadam, Sheetal Navle, Vaishali Mane
Editor
Shilpi Gulati
Sound
Anjum Shaikh, Darshana Mayekar, Gauri Rane, Kavita Ghuge, Kavita Khomne, Nazneen Siddiqui, Rehana Shaikh, Rohini Kadam, Sheetal Navle, Vaishali Mane

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