Adhuna Akhtar, Monica Dogra in a haunting video on loneliness of the ‘other’

Musician, artist, and versatile actor, Monica Dogra ventures into production with her latest music video, Shiver from her latest album SPIT which was released earlier this year by Universal Music.

Not content with her flourishing career in music and acting, Monica Dogra is on to bigger things. She is now trying her hands at production as well with her latest music video, Shiver from SPIT, her album that was released earlier this year by Universal Music.

Adhuna Akkhtar features in Monica Dogra’s latest music video Shiver.

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The video, featuring Adhuna Akhtar, is about a girl who goes to audition at an old theatre full of symbolism and archetypal characters depicting an array of feminine expressions.

Monica shared the video on Sunday on her Instagram and Twittter accounts.

The names featured in the video include the likes of Adhuna Akhtar, Rabanne Jamsandekar, Deepti Datt, Navya Singh, Chandni Sareen, Elton Fernandez, Justine Mellocrasto, Rufy Ghazi, Saket Sharma, Tania Aggarwal and Lara Saluja.

Monica’s latest video talks about all the communities and groups that are victims of being cornered and treated as the ‘other’. (Photo: Tanya Agarwal)

The five-minute-long video scrutinises survival, admonishment, and whether or not these protected characters truly want to be segregated because they are different. The central character has been essayed by Reshma Gajjar, a renowned dancer of Indian origin who has worked with Madonna and Ricky Martin.

The lyrics will haunt you
“Loneliness that you dream to be free of”
“A heart that bleeds too much”
“People need to be held while they are shivering”

The team behind the video boasts of several talented individuals including the director - Navzar Eranee who’s been an assistant director on films like Guru, the choreographer - Jasmine Albuquerque Croissant who happens to be a profound international dancer having been a part of Ryan Heffington’s (Sia/ FKA Twigs choreographer) dance troupe Fingered and has choreographed videos for the likes of Devendra Banhart & Bob Wayne, Shanker Raman, the director of photography for the video is a National Award winning Cinematographer.

Monica, who has donned the roles of creative director and executive producer for the video, said, “Shiver is my largest collaborative effort to date and I have to say I truly understand the value of community and artistic camaraderie as a result of finally making this work....I roped in artists from all over the world from choreographers and dancers from California and a cast that exemplifies true influencers in the realm of making space for a multitude of feminine expressions. My hope is that this art will quietly enter people hearts and minds, starting very necessary conversation. But for me, the gift was just creating it. That was just pure magic”.

SHIVER encourages a healthy conversation around various social justice compartments like homosexuality, feminism, equality, survival, and embodiment.

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