Zila Khan, one of the top women Sufi singers in the country, launched the album 'Zila, the girl child' on the Saregama label on March 8, 2008.

The album talks about various emotions of a woman, including her sensuality.

Khan is the seventh generation of an unbroken line in what is the oldest school (or Gharana) of Sitar and Surbahar in India, the daughter of the incomparable sitar maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan.

Zila is the one and only singer in the Imdad Khani Gharana and she is the first woman from the family to have been empowered to sing in public.

We had invited so many eminent guests. We tried to communicate the cancellation to each one of them. However, by the time we could reach Zila Khan she had reached the venue. The festival will run according to the schedule from December 16-22.
Chandan Rai Choudhary of Women's International Film Festival