by Suman Gupta
Award-winning Singer-Performer Kavya Jones, recently featured in The Rolling Stones for her saccharine pop song Oo Oo Mere Dil Mein Tu dedicates her song to the live-action musical, The Archies amid the nepotism constroversy. Says film inspired her to create the song and now the millenials seem to have caught on!
Seconding filmmaker Zoya Akhtar who spoke out for equitable representation of the cast of The Archies, Kavya Jones avers how the film was always meant to be an equitable opportunity film but it is netizens who have lapped up celeb kids, Kavya speaks of how her video juxtaposed small-town teens with the sobo character essayed by her and focused on the transformation of the six girls.
The inspiration, reveals Kavya, was from The Archies trailer, Dot (Aditi), Agastya Nanda, Khushi Kapoor, Mihir Ahuja, Suhana Khan, Vedang Raina, and Yuvraj Menda, who are an amazing cast that represent today’s youth.
My song incidentally has 7 girls, six from.the heart of hinterlands, while I represent the urban chic singer. The teeny bopper fantasy number has earned Kavya, an article in the prestigious Rolling Stones magazine
Says Kavya. “I am.truly inspired by Zoya Akhtar’s musical let us cut the crap and enjoy the musical. Music heals hearts. There is no place for colour green aka jealousy here.”
