Songstress Sona Mohapatra is a defiant outlier. Hindi film music may have helped her gain fame but she does not sway to Bollywood’s tunes. The singer has forged her own unique identity. “I feel blessed for the opportunities I’ve had to sing film songs, but there is so much more that I do,” she says.
The “so much more that she does” forms the basis of a new documentary film, Shut Up Sona, which puts Mohapatra’s approach to music, and to her role as an entertainer seeking to. . .