Video: A street performer in Israel sings the song Recently, martial arts expert and megastar Jackie Chan shook a leg to Mehndi’s tunes at the 17th Shanghai Film Festival (the video went viral in no time). Mehndi’s iconic Bhangra steps in the video were also practised and replicated by these ardent fans. Daler Mehndi’s 1998 song ‘Tunak Tunak Tun’ is one of these.įrom Germany to Korea, the song became a rage among youngsters across the world after its release in the late 1990s. Then there are those iconic ones that go on to build a cult following for themselves.
Most songs fade from public memory in no time, while few manage to stay a little longer on their minds. Tunak Tunak Tunĭr S Somnath: A Hindi Teacher’s Son, New ISRO Chairman Was Crucial In PSLV’s Success It is believed that Gorbachev’s reply was that his wife only knew Raj Kapoor and his daughter only knew Mithun Chakraborty! 4. Here’s an interesting anecdote from those days: When Mikhail Gorbachev visited India, Rajiv Gandhi introduced him to Amitabh Bachchan as India’s greatest superstar. Throughout the 80s, the dance halls at Russian summer resorts resounded with the beats of ‘I Am a Disco Dancer’, instantly transforming Mithun into one of the most loved next-gen Indian actors in the country.
Released in 1982, the movie ‘ Disco Dancer’ rocked the popularity charts at home and across the Soviet Union. Video: A Russian fan performing to the song The record also reached the number one spot in Italy and Belgium, and number two spot in Germany (where it sold over 100,000 units in two days!). Sung in Punjabi, the fusion hip-hop groove went on to sell an estimated 10 million copies worldwide.
In 2002, Panjabi MC jammed cross-cultural airwaves with their song “ Mundian To Bach Ke“ that went on to become a breakout international smash hit the top 20 in at least 15 countries. The massive crowd of fans simply picked the car up (with the actor in it) and carried it off! 2. In fact when Raj Kapoor went to Moscow for a special screening of the movie, his car (that was parked outside the theatre) never left the curb. The first Hindi film to be successful in the country, Awaara’s title song became a huge rage, even being played at official banquets. His film Awaara – dubbed in Russian and released as Brodiaga – left the Russians besotted. It is fairly well known that Raj Kapoor enjoyed wild adulation in the Soviet Union in the 1960s. Here are 7 Indian songs that went viral across the globe before ‘going viral’ was a thing! 1.
But this didn’t stop these records from taking the world by storm. People didn’t know who the composer or the lyricist was, or in some cases, even which film or album these songs were from. Several Indians songs have crossed the barriers of language, region and country to stamped their musical influence in foreign nations. However, this isn’t the first song from India to have become a global hit. Video: Russians fan perform to Jimikki Kammal Estonians are singing along to it and Russians are dancing to its beats, though they have no idea what the words mean. Today, the incredibly catchy tune has clocked millions of views on YouTube, making it the most watched Malayalam song ever. A Twitter user tweeted the a viral video of the song to Kimmel, asking if he had heard it. To the Twitterati’s surprise, Kimmel soon responded, saying that “he loves the song”, following which the already-popular song went viral on social media. Recently, Jimikki Kammal, a peppy song from Malayalam movie ‘ Velipadinte Pusthakam‘, became an Internet sensation after it found a fan in American chat show host, Jimmy Kimmel.