Tamil rapper comes in dual role in video.
After the success of her two songs that addressed the plight of people who suffered from environment hazards caused by multinational companies, the Tamil rapper and singer Sofia Ashraf has released a new video.
The new video released by Sofia is on issues women face in the contemporary world, wrapped in satire. In the new 3:15-minute long video titled ‘Any Good News’, Sofia appears in dual role – mother and daughter.
The video begins with the mother Sofia asking her daughter: “Molai (Daughter) is there any good news?” To this, her daughter Sofia answers by sharing the pleasant news that she started having a good hair day, and her periods are over and says that she has unlocked new levels on Candy Crush.
Sofia goes on to say that she has been having a perfect day without any blues but her answer doesn’t satisfy her mother who repeats the same question, “Molai, is there any good news?!”
This time, taunting her mom, Sofia tells she has accomplished many daunting tasks such as saving a baby, Â getting selected for the next NASA mission, solved Syrian crisis and thwarted ISIS singlehandedly. She goes on to says that she also found a permanent solution to end poverty. But yet again her mom seems less impressed and yet again asked her “Molai, is there any good news?”
This time Sofia is exasperated and says, “No.”
The video tries to drive the point that despite the achievements made by women in different fields, all their accomplishments go in vain as her relatives and society think getting married and having children are more important.
”I personally had this experience where my grandmother was happy about my brother’s promotion and when I excitedly revealed that even I got a promotion, she abruptly said that ‘a woman’s promotion is when she gets married and gives birth to a child”, said Sofia Ashraf.
Sofia had earlier attacked multinational cooperation’s negligence of corporations that have caused environment pollution. Her song “Don’t Work for Dow” was against Dow Chemicals that didn’t give compensation to victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy in India.
“Kodaikanal Won’t”, a music video released in 2015, addressed mercury pollution in Kodaikanal from a thermometer factory owned by Unilever.