There is no telling what may strike the Internet’s fancy. Of late, it is videos of an American dad dancing to Indian music. Ricky L Pond is a Washington-primarily based Instagram user who has taken the Internet by storm with his dance videos.
Mr Pond describes himself as a “dancing dad” with children – and his dance videos generally function his family members members shaking a leg with him. The dancer – who initially identified fame on TikTok – has an Instagram following of more than 57,000.
In December, he went viral with an Instagram video that shows him dancing to Ghungroo from the film War. The video shows him and his daughter acing Hrithik Roshan’s signature moves and received a lot of like from netizens.
More lately, it was his video dancing to the song O Betaji which was employed in the Netflix film Ludo that caught social media’s eye.
The video garnered more than 54,000 ‘likes’ in two days and was swiftly followed by yet another 1 today which shows Mr Pond dancing to Ghoomar. “This song was requested by a lot of you!” he wrote although sharing the video and adding a birthday want for Deepika Padukone, on whom the original was picturised.
It’s not just Bollywood music that Mr Pond dances to. His Instagram feed is complete of videos that show him grooving to every little thing from Tamil hits to Punjabi beats.