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

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, who taught them filmmaking basics. Gulati, wearing red, stands at the far right in the second row. Mangesh Gudekar/School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS.

Mangesh Gudekar/School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS.

It’s the first scene in a new documentary. A group of women