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(A The Resource Centre The Telegraph \> Date: 10/02/2016 Page No: 12 Location: 12 Circulation: 400000 Edition: Kolkata MUSIC he can fill arenas. She refuses Bengal can truly lead the way as moved to work in Mumbai that I even to bow to political pressure. SONA MOHAPATRA individuality is still celebrated in entertained the idea of cutting a SShe believes that music is a Bengali culture. vocal demo and approaching music changemaker. She will be taking the HAS A DATE WITH YOU directors. The journey since then has Science City stage on February 11 for AT EMAMI CULTURAL Are you counting down to Tere been magical, but I wouldn't trade the third edition of Emami Cultural Bin Laden 2 (releasing February my education for anything in the Fiesta, in association with t2. She FIESTA, WITH t2 26), the music for which is from world. is... Sona Mohapatra. your home production, OmGrown Let's hear it from the 39-year-old Music... Your sense of style is distinctive. singer with hits like Bedardi Raja, Ram (Sampath) has composed and What fashion trends are you big Jiya laage na, Piya se naina, sung the song Itemwaale for Tere Bin on at the moment? Ambarsariya, Dil aaj kal.... Laden 2. We're proud to be associated My style is another means of with this film which is a really funny expressing myself artistically Calcutta has a special place in satire on the times we live in. We also creatively and culturally I don't your heart and you count Kallol have Raees in the works, as well as really follow trends to be honest. But Datta and Eina Ahluwalia as many other projects. These are yes, some friends whose advice I take friends.... exciting times at OmGrown Music! seriously include Kallol Datta, I am in awe of the sheer breadth of Atikaa Ahluwalia and Meghna Bengali culture, be it in art, music, You have been Bhalla. literature, film, couture or cuisine. married to Ram I don't go often I'm also amazed at the very real, Sampath since 2005. enough to After David Bowie unpretentious connection the people How has the Bhubaneswar but I passed away, you of Calcutta have with this culture. relationship evolved? love the street food posted a Let's Dance Intellect, wisdom and expertise are Being married has only there. Chhena Poda mix on your Facebook still valued highly., and that's rare in freed me and I feel Pitha is absolutely timeline. How did he our increasingly commercial world. fortunate for that. Ram the best sweet ever influence you? and I are extremely invented and I enjoy He's an icon of Singer, songwriter, performer... busy professionals, so the highway individuality and true which of the three challenges you we cherish the time we personality. He also the most? spend together. Our stopovers to eat this made very complex and It would have to be the performer as mutual interests and lots more experimental art but it includes every aspect of my overlap from the yummy food! packaged it very personality and skills, and is easily professional to the — What she misses glamorously It's the most exhausting and rewarding. personal, so we're most about Odisha something very few Be it social media, studio or stage, rarely out of sync with artistes have pulled off. my abilities as a performer are what each other.... I think I've made him He was always re-inventing himself help me express myself. more punctual and he's made me and I admire that about him. This more relaxed. mix you saw on Facebook was What do you look for in a Bolly actually an official reworking of the project before signing on? I'l'Jirni Sona IVI if J11 February 11, M,UU With an academic background in track with me singing the desi Hindi For me, it's always about the melody Mohapatra in concert 6pm onwards Science City engineering and MBA, what made parts mixed with Bowie's vocals. and lyrics. If I connect with those, I you chuck up a marketing Some issue between the music label can really make the song my own. What to expect| You can expect a bunch of fresh new material added to executive job and move into and Bowie's management ensued Bollywood is just one of the many the favourites. You can also expect an exciting, pulsating live band and a music? and it couldn't get a proper release in avenues available to an artiste today treat for the senses My journey to the arts and India. and while it does help raise your entertainment world has been profile, it isn't my only aim. I love re something I try to do on a regular per cent of the population and as serendipitous. I worked as a Finally, what makes Sona inventing folk music and making pop basis. I really believe fame is a per WHO, it will soon overtake marketing manager for five years Mohapatra such a kick-ass records as well, so those are on the privilege and must be put to good use. cancer and heart diseases as the before quitting to become a singer. woman?! anvil for 2016! Women and children's issues along biggest cause of death. My parents always stressed on the In my humble opinion—my with issues of culture are subjects I'm also helping raise importance of a good education, conviction and tenacity You've lent support to Muskaan, a closest to my heart. I am raising funds awareness for the fast including a sound foundation in nationwide initiative about cleft for an NGO, PTRC, working for mental disappearing traditions of Indian Hindustani vocal and for the most deformities. With a million wellness. In a country of one billion weaves via my project part, I agreed with them. I was a good Mathures Paul problems around us, which are we have only 4,000 professionals who UCelebratelndianWeaves. We must student and did my BTech Do you agree with Sona that the causes closest to your heart? can help such patients and thescary make our traditions 'cool' again (Instrumentation & Electronics) and Chhena Poda Pitha is the best Being connected to social issues is part is that this condition afflicts 20 and in this movement, I believe, MBA on merit. It was only when I sweet ever? Tell t2@ abp.in Copyright of the article is with the publication .