Nahid Afrin to Debut in Bollywood But She’s Not The Only One From Assam

Sonakshi Sinha, who is enjoying her stint as the judge of the music reality show Indian Idol Junior, was recently extremely impressed with 13 year old Nahid Afrin, who managed to leave the actress awestruck with her performance, has bagged an opportunity to make her playback debut with Sonakshi Sinha’s upcoming film Akira.

Nahid Afrin recently performed on the song ‘Zara Si Dil Mein’ from the film Jannat which managed to impress all the judges including Sonakshi Sinha. The actress, who showered praises on Nahid, requested her to sing for Akira and was more than happy when the little girl immediately agreed. Interestingly, Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani are the composers of Akira and Vishal is also the judge of Indian Idol Junior.

Akira is an upcoming Indian action-drama film directed by AR Murugadoss and produced by AR Murugadoss and Fox Star Studios. The film is a remake of the 2011 Tamil film Mouna Guru and stars Sonakshi Sinha and Konkona Sen Sharma in lead roles. Assamese actress Urmila Mahanta is also playing an important role in this film. Urmila has recently seen on Nawazuddin starrer film Manjhi The Mountain Man.

Update: Listen to the song Rajj Rajj Ke Here

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