Political brinkmanship recently has taken the form of jingoistic propaganda on social media. Supposedly nationalistic content – made so largely by virtue of its antagonism towards the ‘enemy’ – proliferates on either side of the border/LOC. So if in India we have videos where we make fun of the Pakistanis and wish for the erasure of its very identity, we have our hostile neighbours doing something similar. But when they created this absurd video with Virat Kohli, the tweeple saw red.
Pakistani journalist Naila Inayat (who’s Titter handle features her name in English and Devnagri) shared this video. She called it just “some regular delusions, nothing else”, dismissing the silly video for what it was – hyperbolic chest-thumping with poor production values.
The video features some fantasy England-Pakistan match in Srinagar were Kohli plays for Pakistan and people watching the match speaking about a nonexistent India. It is so bad that it is almost funny, felt a lot of the tweeple.
The video ends in a supposedly menacing song that threatens to bury those who challenge India and a matching graphic. Like I said, it is a pretty awful video.
The video is laughable for several reasons; one of them being the existential crisis that faces England right now. It is more likely that England will no longer exist in its current form by 2025 than the scenario featured in the video.
I want some of it, said this Twitter-user.
This Twitter user thought that the most annoying part of the video was calling Babar Azam a legendary batsman. All else maybe OK, but this!
Of course there were those who responded with a similar fantasy of Akhand Bharat that visualises the subsuming of Pakistan and several other nations into a contiguous India.
This commentator sarcastically told the delusional person who made the video to hurry up. Kohli may not play for too long, after all.
Of course there were many who used quite unparliamentary language to express their reactions to the video; such as this Jinnah meme.
Some of the tweeple bothered to point out the discrepancies in the video. Clearly there are those who watch and react to such idiotic videos.
This Twitter user requested that such funny videos not be posted at night since laughing too much can spoil one's sleep.
Some just felt that the video was just too silly for anyone to take any kind of offence. I agree.
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