Media se kehdoon kya main khule aam re/ Ke balma bandh kamre mein raajneeti karey. No prizes for guessing that this is an item song. But few Calcuttans will be aware that this song to which Mugdha Godse gyrates in Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns has been sung by a city girl.

Paroma Dasgupta, who has crooned the qawwali-like song that threatens corrupt politicians with media exposure, is a Loreto College and Jadavpur University alumnus. This is Mugdha’s debut as an item girl (in picture above), wearing a cleavage-baring blouse and a dangerously low-waist ghagra, and she is seen teasing Raj Babbar with men showering currency notes on her. But Paroma has sung another item number before — Dan dan cheeni for Ram Gopal Varma’s Department picturised on Brazilian-Indian starlet Nathalia Kaur.

“My first Bollywood break was a song in the Irrfan-Konkona-Soha starrer Dil Kabaddi,” says the girl who is a popular voice in ad jingles (Nestle, Kellogg’s, Docomo, Samsung...).

Saheb Biwi... music composer Sandeep Chowta is happy with Paroma’s high-energy oomph-oozing rendition. “You deserved to sing the song. Superr singing. Thank you for being a part of the project,” he has posted on her Facebook page.

Paroma’s secret wish? To sing for Bengali films.