Melbourne, Aug 23 (TIWN) Popular singer Sona Mohapatra took a packed auditorium by surprise when she was called upon the stage at the ongoing Indian Film Festival of Melbourne to give away an award and judge the long-standing and popular dance competition of the festival.

The singer treated the auditorium packed with the Indian diaspora, government functionaries, including ministers and members of parliament, and the city's mayor with an impromptu act.  She crooned, a-cappella, the 'Kuhu Kuhu Bole Koyaliya', a duet sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammad Rafi for the pan-India 1957 film, 'Suvarna Sundari', starring the legendary Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Anjali Devi. That was her tribute the late Nightingale of India, Lata Mangeshkar.