This movie was a moderate success, owing to the popularity of the song, Why This Kolaveri Di. This is a down tempo dance song, which went viral soon after it was released. However, here we mention you things you didn’t know about the song Why this kolaveri di.
1.Why this kolaveri di means why this Murderous Rage, girl in English.
2.The song is sung and written by Dhanush, movie is directed by his wife Aishwarya and music is directed by Aishwarya’s cousin.
3. Within few weeks of release, YouTube honored the video with “Recently most popular” Gold medal award and trending silver medal for largest hits in short time.
4. Due to popularity of song, X Prime minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh invited Dhanush for dinner party along with Japanese prime minister as a Guest of honor.
5. Ravichander composed the tune of this song in 10 minutes and Dhanush completed working on lyrics in less than 20 minutes.
6. The song was recorded at A.R Rahman’s AM studio in Chennai, which was known as famous song before it got released.
7. Upon the release, #kolaveri topped the Indian trends in twitter on the evening of 21st November 2011.
8. The song trending on twitter for whole time, with 1 million shares on face book, 3.5 million views on YouTube in just one week on release.
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9. The song became the most downloaded song with 4,100,000 downloads in just 18 days after the release.
10. The words of song came out with new concept ‘Tanglish’ which is a mixture of Tamil and English.
11. Police officers in India used versions of the song and its title to combat road rage and encourage bike riders to wear helmets. There were various memes too.
12. This song rapidly spread to parts of Tokyo, which further saw a Japanese women dancing to it, also spread soon.
13. It was only Javed Aktar from Bollywood to slam the song for its insult to sensibility.
14. After the song, Why this Hera pheri Ji become the most viewed video on YouTube as it featured politician like Man Mohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi and many others from India.
So, did you know about them?
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