MS Dhoni Bole Jo Koyal Bago Mein

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MS Dhoni Bole Jo Koyal Bago Mein refers to a meme featuring the ex-captain of the Indian cricket team MS Dhoni and the song "Chudi" (Bole Jo Koyal) by Falguni Pathak. After a video of Telugu internet personality Uppal Balu dancing to the song went viral in 2019, people began drawing connections between Balu and Dhoni's appearance, eventually making edited videos of Dhoni dancing to the song in September 2022.

Origin

On May 13th, 2013, YouTube^[3] channel FalguniPathakVEVO posted a music video for the song "Chudi" sung by Falguni Pathak. The video has gathered over 190 million plays in ten years (seen below).

On November 26th, 2019, TikToker^[1] @ranadheeradla posted a video tagging Telugu dancer and internet and TV personality Uppal Balu.^[2] The video showed Balu walking in a river towards a waterfall while lip-syncing and dancing to a part of the song Chudi by Falguni Pathak with the lyrics "Bole jo koyal baago mein." The video gathered over 3.5 million views and 60,000 likes in three years (seen below).

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On October 11th, 2020, Twitter^[4] user @atheisttindian posted a video of MS Dhoni dancing, gathering over 100 likes in a year and a half. On September 11th, 2022, Twitter^[5] user @byomkesbakshy posted the earliest known video of Dhoni edited to play the Bole Jo Koyal song. The post gathered over 2,000 likes in seven months (seen below).

On September 14th, 2022, Redditor^[6] /r/LmaoMincraft posted a Dhoni Bole Jo Koyal Meme to /r/IndianDankMemes, gathering over 100 upvotes in seven months (seen below).

On September 16th, 2022, MS Dhoni Bole Jo Koyal memes were uploaded in carousel posts by Instagram^[7]^[8] pages @wtfpratyush and @literallyy.us (seen below), where they gathered over 7,000 and 1,000 likes, respectively.

On September 22nd 2022, Instagram^[9] page @aarcaid posted a MS Dhoni Bole Jo Koyal Meme, gathering over 8,000 likes in seven months (seen below).