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Featured era: 2000
Tunak Tunak Tun
“Tunak tunak tun.”
- Featured era
- 2000
- Peak era
- 2005-2008
- Company
- Daler Mehndi
- Category
- Viral Videos
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Daler Mehndi's "Tunak Tunak Tun"
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About This Video
- From:
- Daler Mehndi Music
- Added:
- April 11, 2023
- Length:
- 4:16
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What Was It?
Tunak Tunak Tun is a 1998 bhangra and Indi-pop song by the Punjabi singer Daler Mehndi. Critics had claimed his music was popular only because of the beautiful women dancing in his videos, so he made one that featured nobody but himself. It was the first Indian music video made with bluescreen technology.
Four Mehndis, each representing one of the classical elements, arrive as comets, then sing and dance in front of computer-generated deserts, mountains and St. Basil's Cathedral before merging into one figure dressed in gold and emerald.
The song was the biggest Indi-pop hit of its time. Online, the first parody appeared in 2000, and once YouTube launched in 2005 the parodies took off again and the video became a global meme. Blizzard even added the dance to World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.
Things You Probably Forgot
- Four Daler Mehndis in four colours
- Comets turning into Daler Mehndi
- Its Chinese nickname, "I'm playing with mud in Northeastern China"
- The Tunak dance in World of Warcraft
The Story
- 1998 Daler Mehndi released "Tunak Tunak Tun" and its bluescreen video.
- 2000 The first online parody of the video appeared.
- 2014 Mehndi and Deadmau5 made a remix of the song.
Its Legacy
The video lives on through official uploads like this one on Daler Mehndi's channel. It is Mehndi's most-watched music video and one of the most enduring music memes on the internet.
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