’s music and artistic heritage, but after three years of filming, Deepti Gupta’s film morphed into something more.
Over a decade later, with a slew of hits to her name including “Rupaiya, Satyamev Jayate” and “I Hate You ,” Mohapatra is still trying to get fairer representation for female artists — especially at music festivals, where she is only offered headline spots if she shares billing with her composer husband Ram Sampath.
I am not bothered about being modest. I didn’t grow up with any academic understanding, or education, around this concept of feminism; I just inherently felt things had to be fairer. My mother was a working woman and it was just understood that she would not only take care of her three children and cook, [but also] take care of the in-laws, work and bring in the money. It just seemed overwhelmingly a misbalance.
In the documentary, there’s a certain tone reserved for you by a lot of the men you encounter, one scene in particular with a male journalist.