Appdiye Kolaveri!
India's current population is about 1.7 Billion.
Number of hits on the YouTube video of 'Why This Kolaveri Di?' is about 1.4 Million right now.
Statistically speaking, 1 in 1000 Indians have heard 'this-u soup song-u'. And that's just a rough guesstimate!
Oh and it's just about been a week since it was released on YouTube [16th November, 2011]
Kolaveri in Tamil means something like furious enough to kill. Well, the song does seem to have the fury to kill records!
There's some magic about this song that makes it-u stuck-u in your-u head-u. And also, evidently, makes-u you start writing-u/talking-u like-u that-u.
Tonight, it's become the first Tamil song-u to make it to radio stations across-u the country. \m/
I am addicted majorly to this song penned by Dhanush [the actor who has sung this song which is from his upcoming movie '3' and is directed by his wife Aishwarya who is Rajni Saar's daat-er. TrustMeToTryFittingInRhombaTooMuchInformationInASentence] and the music composer is a 21 year old from Madras. My cousin tells me that he is part of this band called ZINX and that they performed at her college last year. +1 to Anirudh Ravichandar who probably thinks I am a stalker-ish character because I found his profile and messaged him only to see that, about two hours after that, it had become a 'like' page! Way to go, though! And bad timing y'all - we have exams going on.
There are these two itching thoughts in my mind though. Every time I listen to it or see it on my feed-u, these thoughts make their way back-u :
1) This viral song is catchy not just because of the tune or the lyrics but may be in part of how funny the lyrics are because of the so-called Tamil/South-Indian accent when we speak in English. I won't disagree with the fact that Indians from different parts of the country have a certain accent when they speak in English. I probably speak with a Tamil-Punjabi mixed accent. And Tamilians (or even Malayalis, Kannadigas or Telugu folk) have the tendency to speak with a -u and that can get a lot of laughs. But I just don't want this accent deal to be generalized and if some of us don't speak with the -u - it doesn't make it a huge miracle. It's the same way when, back in Chandigarh, my mother met our Punjabi neighbors (this is ... 5 houses/flats ago) for the first time and they went, "Hain? Aap Madrasan kaise ho sakte ho? Woh toh kaale hote hai!"
2) This song isn't technically Tamil. But what the hell! Kolaveri is a Tamil word, so it's all super, mama.
Can't wait-u for-u more-u records!
Number of hits on the YouTube video of 'Why This Kolaveri Di?' is about 1.4 Million right now.
Statistically speaking, 1 in 1000 Indians have heard 'this-u soup song-u'. And that's just a rough guesstimate!
Oh and it's just about been a week since it was released on YouTube [16th November, 2011]
Kolaveri in Tamil means something like furious enough to kill. Well, the song does seem to have the fury to kill records!
There's some magic about this song that makes it-u stuck-u in your-u head-u. And also, evidently, makes-u you start writing-u/talking-u like-u that-u.
Tonight, it's become the first Tamil song-u to make it to radio stations across-u the country. \m/
I am addicted majorly to this song penned by Dhanush [the actor who has sung this song which is from his upcoming movie '3' and is directed by his wife Aishwarya who is Rajni Saar's daat-er. TrustMeToTryFittingInRhombaTooMuchInformationInASentence] and the music composer is a 21 year old from Madras. My cousin tells me that he is part of this band called ZINX and that they performed at her college last year. +1 to Anirudh Ravichandar who probably thinks I am a stalker-ish character because I found his profile and messaged him only to see that, about two hours after that, it had become a 'like' page! Way to go, though! And bad timing y'all - we have exams going on.
There are these two itching thoughts in my mind though. Every time I listen to it or see it on my feed-u, these thoughts make their way back-u :
1) This viral song is catchy not just because of the tune or the lyrics but may be in part of how funny the lyrics are because of the so-called Tamil/South-Indian accent when we speak in English. I won't disagree with the fact that Indians from different parts of the country have a certain accent when they speak in English. I probably speak with a Tamil-Punjabi mixed accent. And Tamilians (or even Malayalis, Kannadigas or Telugu folk) have the tendency to speak with a -u and that can get a lot of laughs. But I just don't want this accent deal to be generalized and if some of us don't speak with the -u - it doesn't make it a huge miracle. It's the same way when, back in Chandigarh, my mother met our Punjabi neighbors (this is ... 5 houses/flats ago) for the first time and they went, "Hain? Aap Madrasan kaise ho sakte ho? Woh toh kaale hote hai!"
2) This song isn't technically Tamil. But what the hell! Kolaveri is a Tamil word, so it's all super, mama.
Can't wait-u for-u more-u records!
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