Sonali gets fit for music video

Attention from hubby

Her reinvention trip has made husband Roopkumar Rathod "fall in love all over again with me" while daughter Surshree "can't help but marvel." She attributes her slimmer look to a bit of controlled eating and working out.

"My personal trainer Nisha guided me. But it's not that I dieted in the true sense of the word. All singers are basically hoggers. The only thing I gave up completely was rice," she says. & nbsp;

Goodbye sarees

Along with the weight loss, is a discernible change in dressing. "People have this image of me in sarees because of the concerts and the ghazal singing," she says. "Otherwise I prefer my 'live-in torn clothes', as my husband puts it," she laughs.

This look is for her new music video, which she recently shot for. The album will be released in February by HMV. "We are still in the process of finalising a title," she says. The video, shot at Karma Lounge, is directed by Kiran and Aban Deohans and music has been composed by Leslie Lewis.

Jazz and more

This album has Rathod make "a musical shift" as she explains. "I have always been a lover of jazz and all the seven tracks are jazz-based. Hopefully this is my first step towards working towards a pure jazz album."

The new venture has her as the solo singer. "Post my marriage to Roopkumar Rathod we have always done music albums and videos together. After a long gap, of almost 15 years, I will be seen singing alone. It's nice to experiment to embark on a new voyage from time to time."