{"id":5593,"date":"2016-07-04T20:26:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T14:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5593"},"modified":"2016-07-04T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T14:56:08","slug":"shut-up-sona-mohaptra-review-woman-in-a-music-industry-made-by-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5593","title":{"rendered":"Shut Up Sona Review: What It Takes to Be a Woman In a Music Industry Made By Men, for Men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\u00a0\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p>\n\n<span class=\"dropcap\">L<\/span>\n\n<\/div>\nate into Deepti Gupta\u2019s <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shut Up Sona,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sona Mohapatra, the mercurial subject of the documentary, distills down the distance that female <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/ranu-mondal-singing-sensation-singer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">singers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> still have to cover to be given equal opportunities as men with a piece of undeniable evidence.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sitting in a hotel bed, she looks at the camera and goes on a rant about the 2017 edition of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/nh7-weekender-music-festival-sex-drugs-rock-n-roll\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NH7 Weekender<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the multi-city music festival, that accomodated five female acts out of the 50 spread over three days. The singer points out that it was the year music composers Vishal Bhardwaj and Ram Sampath performed at the festival for the first time. Both of them were allotted 90 minutes for their respective performances. In comparison, another set of debutantes, the Nooran Sisters, were allotted only 30 minutes. \u201cThey are qawwals, they take 30 minutes to warm up,\u201d Mohapatra points out with a hint of outrage. Even worse, the singer says that the Nooran Sisters, who she believes can \u201cblow all these boys out of the park,\u201d weren\u2019t allowed to perform on the festival\u2019s main stage unlike Bhardwaj and Sampath. Instead, their performance was relegated to a smaller podium. Mohapatra animatedly describes this incident as it should be remembered: an act of tokenism.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 84-minute-long <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shut Up Sona <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is built on a stack of such slights, interrogating how <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/arre-checklist-humans-of-housing-society\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">society<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 essentially a giant boys club comprising several small gatherings of boys clubs \u2013 routinely reduces the contribution of women as an afterthought. The multi-hyphenate Mohapatra, widely perceived as a \u201cdifficult woman\u201d makes for the perfect canvas to realise these observations, given that the outspoken singer has routinely been a victim of similar discrimination.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The documentary begins in 2016 when Mohapatra is told that she can\u2019t give a solo performance at Mood Indigo, IIT Bombay\u2019s annual fest. An excuse about sponsors backing out is heard in a phone conversation. The singer is livid, convinced that she is being singled out because of her <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/ho-ja-regender\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gender<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We learn that this is the third successive year where they\u2019ve suggested that she reduce her fees while expecting her to take the stage with Sampath, her husband and long-time collaborator. In the next scene, Mohapatra is shown opening the Facebook page of the fest to confirm that she isn\u2019t making the whole thing up. The camera observes as she scrolls down the page and is proved right: The line-up is made up entirely of male performers.\u00a0<\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">In India, where the odds are stacked so starkly against women, female performers don\u2019t have the luxury of just being entertainers.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adamant about not letting IIT Bombay get away with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/notallmen-sodonechilling-sexual-assault-high-spirits-khodu-irani-sexual-harassment-harvey-weinstein-sexism\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sexism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> this time around, Mohapatra decides to write an open letter. Sampath advises her to not put it out. \u201cThink about how you\u2019re already perceived. They want you to fall into that cliche.. of activist mode,\u201d he warns her. But the singer goes ahead and publishes the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/entertainment\/sona-mohapatra-slams-iit-bombays-mood-indigo-fest-for-being-sexist-in-an-open-letter-3159272.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">open letter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> anyway, blasting IIT Bombay for being a training ground for the worst kind of boys club (\u201cAll the mathematical equations in the world will not be able to teach you the equation of fairness\u201d goes one line of her letter). On their part, IIT Bombay deny her claim, implying in a way that it might just be all in her head.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a way, this forms the crux of the message that Gupta tries to capture in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shut Up Sona. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That, in India, where the odds are stacked so starkly against women, female performers don\u2019t have the luxury of just being <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/bollywood-struggler-lokhandwala-extras-actors\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">entertainers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It\u2019s impossible to be someone who refuses to dilute her voice, compromise on her freedom of expression, or consent to be taken for granted, without a degree of activism. The documentary argues that Sona Mohapatra is all of these things: She stands up against sexism and refuses to be second-guessed about her worth. But its significance lies in how it acts as a witness to the never-ending punishment that the singer has to endure for not being submissive; for being demanding instead of accepting; for using her voice instead of hushing it.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the three-year-period that<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Shut Up Sona<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> follows Mohapatra, there\u2019s an FIR and innumerable rape threats against her, a case of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/indias-engineering-colleges-a-four-year-career-camp-for-undecided-youth\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">colleges<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> not inviting her to perform at fests, and prime-time TV debates that hyperfixate on the \u201clack of modesty\u201d in her wardrobe. All Mohapatra wants is to not feel ashamed for wanting to be treated as an equal but no one is bothered to take her seriously, even.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shut Up Sona <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">charts out this dichotomy convincingly. Mohapatra isn\u2019t the kind of woman who is easily intimidated (she took on Salman Khan for his \u201craped woman\u201d comment). But even then, her career ultimately rests at the mercy of men and how they choose to perceive her, which for a large part, is based on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/feminism-gurgaon-mall-aunty-apologised-patriarchy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how she dresses<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. For instance, the Sufi Foundation lodges an FIR against her, accusing her of \u201ctrying to insult Islamic Sufi practices by wearing objectionable, body revealing, obscene apparel\u201d in a music video. A portion of this video is played in the next scene to drive home the glaring inaccuracy of that claim. This lends itself as a captivating thread of the narrative as well: Through Mohapatra, Gupta posits how one of the more insidious ways of curbing a woman\u2019s freedom of expression is to attack how much skin she chooses to bare. In that sense, Mohapatra is both an easy target and a threat, given how unaffected she is by letting society dictate how much cleavage she should reveal or how flamboyantly she might dress onstage.<\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><i>Shut Up Sona<\/i> works even better as a record of a female artiste, whose very existence is rebellion against the habitual erasure of women\u2019s contributions.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Naturally, it\u2019s a lot of ground to cover and Gupta skims through most of the details \u2013 a decision that partly hurts the narrative. For instance, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/why-has-metoo-scared-every-man\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#MeToo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is alluded to in a couple of lines in the closing slate and Gupta strays away from delving on the consequences that accusing Kailash Kher and Anu Malik of harassment might have had on the singer\u2019s career. Its effect is further weakened by Gupta\u2019s insistence to unnecessarily crowd <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shut Up Sona <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with evidence of historical oppression of women to explain present-day power imbalances. It&#8217;s an ambitious detour, but which can come across as confusing, relying far too much on easy equivalences.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shut Up Sona<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is at its strongest when it concerns itself with being a character study that argues that Mohapatra\u2019s bravery is also self-sabotage. It benefits from the filmmaker\u2019s perceptive eye for detail, as she tenderly ekes out the varying, at times contrasting shades to Mohapatra\u2019s personality. Gupta paints Mohapatra as an invested performer (montages of the singer on stage are a thing of joy; she almost lights up the stage with her presence) and a generous <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/grub\/maharashtras-biggest-celebrity\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">celebrity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (her interactions with women bring out the talkative side in her), one who is perennially cracking jokes or flashing a smile (She openly scoffs at Sampath when he claims that a man and a woman are equal according to Hinduism). Yet, this isn\u2019t the side of her that the world chooses to see \u2013 for them, she is always the angry woman, one who is shouting all the time. Mohapatra, the performer, is gamed to always come second.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At a time when pop-culture readily bends itself to accommodate innumerable makings of the male genius, hyping it up as invaluable \u201cbehind-the-scenes\u201d extension of art itself, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shut Up Sona<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> feels like a counter. It works even better as an acknowledgement of a female artiste; as a cinematic record of the sheer &#8220;pluck&#8221; it takes to co-exist in a world that is biased towards male geniuses. The very existence of <em>Shut Up Sona <\/em>then,\u00a0is rebellion against the habitual erasure of women&#8217;s contributions to industries made by men for men (It&#8217;s not a coincidence that Mohapatra is also credited as the producer). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s a scene in the documentary where the singer animatedly recounts the time Vishal Dadlani patronised her when she pointed out the lack of female performers at NH7 Weekender. \u201cWho are the women artists after all?,\u201d he had asked Mohapatra. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shut Up Sona<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a seething answer to that question.<\/span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shut Up Sona is playing at the 2019 edition of MAMI Film Festival.<\/span><\/i>\n\n\u00a0\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deepti Gupta&#8217;s Shut Up Sona is a captivative record of the never-ending punishment, in the form of FIRs and rape threats, that singer Sona Mohaptra has to endure for not being submissive; 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