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Sona Mohapatra's Zaalima highlights gender politics in music world
Updated On: 28 April, 2020 12:30 PM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
Sona Mohapatra speaks on gender politics in the music business, in a funny-political music video titled 'Zaalima' amid lockdown

A screenshot from Zaalima Reprise (Picture courtesy/YouTube channel of Sona Mohapatra)
Singer Sona Mohapatra, who is known to speak her mind, has come up with a new song, her own badass version of Raees' Zaalima. The singer's soulful voice is a perfect fit for love ballads, case in point Ambarsariya, Naina, Bolo Na and many of her hits. While, it wouldn't be wrong to say that, very few female solo songs are released nowadays in film soundtracks, it came as a pleasant surprise to see this reprise and refreshing version of the the Shah Rukh Khan's film, Raees' popular love song.
Sona has an unique ability to infuse newness in songs and her version of Zaalima is quite different from the original version, sung by Arijit Singh. As per her post, she had created this in-house video with some interesting 'gender-political' messaging about the state of the music industry some time ago and is all set to release it to spread cheer and even some laughs to drive away the lockdown blues, now!

