Bollywood has never been limited to merely India. There has always been a fan base of Bollywood stars outside India. For many years now, we have seen foreigners being fascinated with the dance and music culture of India that even Coldplay, Major Lazer & DJ Snake, among several others shot their songs in India.
In the last two years, with the covid pandemic restricting travel across the world, social media has been a respite and the biggest platform for people, a blessing in disguise for content creators. Social media had always been a tool to connect people across the globe and now it has even helped explore each other’s culture without even visiting the place.
Here are five international influencers who have risen to popularity by singing or lip-syncing Bollywood songs or dancing to Bollywood and Bhojpuri numbers.
Based in Utah in US, Ricky Pond became popular in his late 40s when his dance video with his son on a Bollywood number went viral. With 577, 000 followers, Pond’s Instagram bio reads, “Dancing Dad with 4 kids”. From Sukhwinder Singh’s Banthan Chali Bolo, Shah Rukh Khan’s Chhaiya Chhaiya and Chhammak Chhallo, to Yashraj Mukhate and Shehnaaz Gill’s Tauda Kutta Tommy, Pankaj Tripathi starrer Ludo’s O Betaji O Babuji and even Lollipop Lagelu, Pond has been stealing the hearts of Indians with his dance and smile since more than a year now. Besides Bollywood, he also dances to Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu songs and from Pakistan, Nepal, and Africa among several others.
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Jennifer from Germany lived in Bangalore, India for a year, loves to celebrate Indian festivals, explore Indian cuisine, dress up in desi salwar or lehengas and make videos in Kannada and Hindi. She has over 43,000 views on dance videos where she is dancing to Dilbaro, Dola Re Dola, Mayi Ni Mayi, other Gujarati songs. She also lip-syncs to Bollywood songs and movie dialogues.
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Vina, a model, YouTuber and content creator, calls herself “Indonesia’s Bollywood Icon” with over 157,000 followers on Instagram. From Bollywood film songs starring Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Juhi Chawla, Kajol, Madhuri Dixit, to Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Siddharth Malhotra, Vina along with the team recreates an entire parody version of it with similar costumes as well.
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Based in Norway, the hip-hop dance group ‘The Quick Style’ comprising nearly 10 men, rose to fame after their dance video from a wedding went viral. They danced to several Bollywood songs like Chura Ke Dil Mera from the film Main Khiladi Tu Anari! and Kaala Chashma from the film Baar Baar Dekho and got 2.8 million views on Instagram. They have over 850 thousand followers on Instagram and over 1.35 million subscribers on YouTube.
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This brother-sister duo, based in Tanzania, became famous on Instagram after their videos of lip-syncing to Bollywood songs dressed in their native Massai attire went viral. The siblings have 4.2 million followers on Instagram on which their bio reads “JAI HIND🇮🇳🇮🇳🇹🇿🇹🇿❤️❤️”. The Indian High Commission in Tanzania also felicitated the siblings earlier this year and were appreciated by prime minister Narendra Modi.
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