Sona Mohapatra talks about her song 'Nit Khair Manga' & female perspective in Sufi songs

Singer Sona Mohapatra is quite vocal about current affairs and her opinion on social issues. Recently, in an interview with a leing daily, she revealed details about recreation of famous Sufi song, Nit Khair Manga. She also spoke about how much originality matters in India and also dressed how women are perceived in film and music industry.

Sona Mohapatra on Hindi music film industry

Sona Mohapatra recently released her own version of song Nit Khair Manga, which was originally sung by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. In interview, singer pointed out how Sufi songs are generally from perspective of a woman but songs are in male voices. She also shed some light on reason why such a concept exists and said that such level of unconditional love is only felt by a woman and hence thinking and expressing from her perspective, makes song more meaningful. She always wondered why a woman wouldn’t sing such beautiful numbers and hence decided to go forward with recreation.

In her latest music video, Sona Mohapatra could be seen opting for an artsy concept to match with soulful music. concept has been inspired by artworks of Asit Kumar Patnaik. She can be seen with red hair and a soothing yellow background throughout entire video.

In interview, she spoke about having videos with deeper meaning and how it has worked for her in past. She said that her unique, folk-ish style has also inspired or musicals to go same way. Sona said that she was told, her look in one of songs was inspiration that was taken for Bshah number, Genda Phool.

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Sona Mohapatra was also of opinion that originality is t much of a deciding factor in Hindi film industry. Whatever works commercially, is taken up. She said she has been asked by various famous artists about why she doesn’t go commercial way. She said she is t going for such content heavy videos and music just for sake of it. She believes in every ounce of it and hence does what she does.

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