 "Who is winning the Feku vs Pappu YouTube troll war?")
There are these things that humanity shouldn’t have been subjected to. Ever. Like Ram Gopal Verma’s Sholay remake. The sweet and sour Maggi. Kamal R Khan’s Twitter handle. Miley Cyrus… okay, a Miley Cyrus craving lollypop and spotting a hammer in the vicinity. [caption id=“attachment_1436683” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]
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- for whom, break-ups/single-hood/gamer boyfriends become tolerable phenomena with Jazon Mraz songs. Called ‘An Ode to Pappu’, these very romance-savvy bunch of people decided to turn Mraz’s popular number ‘I’m Yours’ into a coffee-date version of Rahul Gandhi slamming. Like we know, Pappu/Feku is to mush what curry patta is to a good mutton biryani. So yeah, well done boys! *makes Sushma Swaraj-talking to-Kamal Nath eyes* However, a quick YouTube search actually shows the new heights that troll-dom has been scaling, with the elections drawing close. By those standards, ‘sickular libtard’ or ‘Moditard’ or ‘AAPtard’ would all sound only a little less appealing than say ‘ice-cream’, ‘Candy Crush Saga’ or ‘Ranveer Singh without shirt’. Take for example this video:
Called ‘Feku Dance’, this one does more disservice to ‘Lungi Dance’, political satire and Modi haters than Yo Yo Honey Singh has done the feminist movement in the country. Not only are the vocals only a shade better than what you can imagine Lalu Prasad would sound like if he were to sing ‘Ishq Wala Love’, the video is plain un-funny. In fact, the heavy raspy breathing with which the song is sung sounds a bit like devout Congress-worshipper gone breathless over a ‘sickular’ tweet he has failed to retort to within three seconds of it being posted by a Modi fan. The same channel ‘Feku Express’ on YouTube, launched by one Fakendra Modi, has this too , a spin on the Ghagra song in Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani. If you have wondered if an atrocity greater than Hum Tumhare Hai Sanam has been inflicted on Madhuri Dixit, this has to be it. However, Rahul Gandhi, his saner fans, probably have Narendra Modi and his sane fans for company in this epic face-palm moment. Because the Gujarat CM’s fans decided to pay back in kind, Rahul’s fans. And hence floated this on YouTube:
The great minds this one is imaginatively named - no prizes for guessing - Force NaMo. (Yes F1, you have permission to now weep a little for yourself.) So, F NaMo has come up with this and this . If satire knew that these videos existed, it would probably wish that it never existed in the English dictionary. But then there’s this: Let’s just call this the NaMo cheerleading anthem.
“Common Man, Cogent Man, Moment Man, Exponent Man, Proponent Man, Employment Man, Improvement Man, Involvement Man” - Dear Dhanush, time you handed over your sceptre to this gentleman rapper here. The rest, if you have managed to like this song, you just lost your right to criticise the ‘Pinky Hai Paisewaalon Ki’ song.