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

NPR News Saturday 13 June 2026, 10:56 UTC By Neha Bhatt 1 min read

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They gave smartphones to 10 women from a working-class Indian community to make a documentary about their unseen and unheralded lives. pretty cool.(Image credit: Mangesh Gudekar/School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS.)

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.

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