About
Indian Movie Dance Remixes are series of parody videos which dub pop music, mainly anime theme songs, over the dance scenes taken from Indian films. In the same manner as Tommy Seebach’s "Apache" on YouTube, the sharpness/grooviness of Indian movie dancing has been a popular visual resource for parody videos on the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND) since 2007.
Origin
Along with dawn of the online video-sharing era in mid-2000s, Indian films became to reach a wider audience via YouTube and other video hub sites. In particular, its characteristic dance scenes by a large number of actors have inspired viewers as well as its songs’ funny phonetic translations represented by “Benny Lava”.
Meanwhile on NND, users found a way to utilize those groovy Indian movie dances for audio-dubbing parodies. One of the earliest instances in this series is “Lucky MegaStar” which dubbed ”Motteke! Sailor Fuku”, an opening theme song from Japanese TV anime Lucky Star, over “Kodithe Kottali” from 2003 movie Tagore[1] starring Indian “Megastar” Chiranjeevi.[2] The original video was uploaded to YouTube on June 22nd, 2007[3], and soon reuploaded to NND in the following month.[4]
Left: “Kodithe Kottali” | Right: “Lucky MegaStar”
Spread
Audio-dubbing is one of the popular techniques in video parodies on that Japanese video sharing service. ”A Million Ways” by OK Go, “I Wanna Love You Tender” by Danny Ja Armi and Crazy Frog Brothers are famous visual resources for this kind of parody videos. And, Indian movie dances have much more popularity than all of them because it shows much more hilarious synchronization with Japanese anime/pop vocal songs written in high BPM. As well as “Kodithe Kottali”, “Shankar Dada M.B.B.S.” from Chiranjeevi’s 2004 flim Shankar Dada M.B.B.S.[5] and “Gola Gola” from 2006 Tegulu film Ashok[6] starring N. T. Rama Rao Jr. (Jr. NTR)[7] are also popular Indian dance video clips.
Left: “Shankar Dada M.B.B.S.”[8] | Right: “Gola Gola”[9]
On NND, dubbed videos utilizing these dances are usually tagged under wordplay phrases “Naan[10] to Curry[11] na Odori” (Japanese: ナンとカレーな踊り; lit. “What a wonderful dancing”) or “Naan ni demo Au” (ナンにでも合う; lit. “This goes well with everything”).[12]And not a few of them have been watched over millions times.
In the summer of 2014, a Telugu movie Baadshah[13] starring Jr. NTR was distributed to the Japanese theaters. In its promotion, the distributor highlighted the online popularity of his dance in parody videos, and described him as “Shingeki no Indo-jin” (進撃のインド人). It was inspired by that Attack on Titan / Shingeki no Kyojin Opening parody video which had earned over 1.5 million pageviews on YouTube until that summer.[14]
Japanese Trailer
Notable Examples
Niconico インド人類は繁栄しましたNiconico 【インド】シュタインドゲートOP – Hacking to the Indo -
Left: Humanity Has Declined OP Parody | Right: Steins;Gate OP Parody
Niconico アニメ『進撃のインド人』OPNiconico ジョジョの奇妙ナン冒険 スターダストククレイダース OP
Left: Attack on Titan OP Parody | Right: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure OP Parody
Search Interest
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External References
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[1]Wikipedia – Tagore (film)
[2]Wikipedia – Chiranjeevi
[3]YouTube – Lucky Megastar – らき☆めがすた / Posted on 06-22-2007 (Internet archive, Defunct)
[4]niconico Douga – Lucky Megastar – らき☆めがすた / Posted on 07-12-2007
[5]Wikipedia – Shankar Dada M.B.B.S.
[6]Wikipedia – Ashok (film)
[7]Wikipedia – N. T. Rama Rao Jr.
[8]niconico Douga – 【ゴリマー】【高画質】Begumpeta Bullammo – Shankar Dada MBBS / Posted on 07-01-2009
[9]niconico Douga – 【インド】 Gola Gola – Ashok 【高音質】 / Posted on 08-06-2007
[12]niconico Douga – Search results for the tags ナンとカレーな踊り OR ナンにでも合う
[13]Baadshah (2013 film) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[14]YouTube – Shingeki no Kyojin opening / Posted on 04-13-2013