Karachi:
A 19-year-old Pakistani student who shot to fame immediately after her 5-second video went viral on social media across the subcontinent, hopes quite a few renditions of her monologue will translate into more dialogue involving India and Pakistan.
The quick video shot by Dananeer Mobeen in the Nathaigali mountains of northern Pakistan and uploaded onto Instagram shows a group of youngsters enjoying themselves by a roadside.
Swinging about the device she is filming on, Ms Mobeen gestures behind her and says in Urdu, “This is our car, this is us, and this is our party taking place.”
Seemly innocuous, she deliberately mispronounces the English word “party” as “pawri” to poke enjoyable at South Asians who adopt Western accents. It straight away struck a chord in each India and Pakistan, sparking best trending hashtags on social media, and garnering millions of views and hundreds of spin-offs.
“It was the most random video. I initially had no intention of uploading it,” Ms Mobeen stated, expressing surprise at how viral it had gone and adding the trend showed the energy and attain of social media.
“Pawri” monologue renditions have been employed by police in India and the Delhi Commission for Women in their social media outreach campaigns.
In one video, two Indian soldiers deployed in snowy mountains give it their personal spin with “This is us, this is our gun, and we are patrolling here”, even though preferred Bollywood actors Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone every single did a version that also went viral.
Dairy corporation Amul, recognized for inculcating trendy requires on existing problems in its ads, did a “this is our pav-tea” version.
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Even politicians jumped on the bandwagon, with leaders making use of the catchy hook at public events and tweets.
“I’m honoured and grateful for all the love across the border,” stated Ms Mobeen, expressing her happiness at fostering some uncommon friendly cross-border dialogue.
Last week, India and Pakistan released a uncommon joint statement saying they had agreed to observe a ceasefire along the Line of Control, immediately after exchanging fire hundreds of instances more than previous months.
Since the video went viral, Ms Mobeen stated she has been inundated with acting and modelling delivers, along with requests for item endorsements. Instead, she says she aspires to join Pakistan’s foreign services.