Sushant Divgikar is working on his make-up for a shoot as his drag avatar ‘Rani Ko-He-Nur’, while speaking to us over the phone. He is good at multi-tasking, if the multiple accomplishments to his name are anything to go by. He is a drag artist, a reality TV star, winner of Mr Gay India 2014, and has a new feather in his cap in the form of the debut single ‘Diamond’, which released last December. 

“I just wanted to create a song which could become like an anthem for people to believe in themselves that we’ve reached here, we have survived the pandemic. I wanted people to believe that everybody somewhere down the line is a diamond,” he says. The song is a mix of pop-rock and R&B. In the video, Divgikar appears as Rani along with more LGBTQIA+ individuals as well as people from different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. Among them are equal rights activist Gulnaar Sheetal Bhan, trans activist Urmi, footballer Winnie Chopra, and Divgikar’s own father. “I wanted to have real people in the video. So I think I didn't have any model. They were real people telling the real story about how people have tagged them and labelled them.” Apart from his single, he will soon make his debut as a playback singer in Kannada films with the upcoming movie ‘3Devi’.