Yashraj Mukhate (born 28 November 1995), is an Indian music producer, composer, YouTuber and social media personality. He is best known for his viral parodical video where he set
rap
Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...
beats to a scene featured in the television soap opera ''
Saath Nibhaana Saathiya
''Saath Nibhaana Saathiya'' () is an Indian Hindi-language soap opera produced by Rashmi Sharma under Rashmi Sharma Telefilms. It premiered on 3 May 2010 on Star Plus and became one of the most popular and longest running television series. ...
'' in August 2020.
Career
Born in Chatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad]),Yashraj completed his schooling from Holy Cross English High School Aurangabad. Yashraj pursued his career in engineering and had also shown an interest in music. He began by exploiting his music composition in social media with spoof videos. He also revealed that his childhood longtime crush was the film actress
Genelia D'Souza
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. In August 2020, he uploaded an edited video which added a rap song to a dialogue delivery by
Rupal Patel
Rupal Patel is an Indian actress best known for portraying Kokila Modi in ''Saath Nibhaana Saathiya'' —one of the List of longest-running Indian television series, longest-running Indian TV soaps—and Meenakshi Rajvansh in ''Yeh Rishtey Hai ...
who played the role of Kokila in the television soap opera ''
Saath Nibhaana Saathiya
''Saath Nibhaana Saathiya'' () is an Indian Hindi-language soap opera produced by Rashmi Sharma under Rashmi Sharma Telefilms. It premiered on 3 May 2010 on Star Plus and became one of the most popular and longest running television series. ...
''. The video quickly garnered 3 million views on
Instagram
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and created a spate of related memes. The reason for his sudden popularity is a video and music edit he recently made with a dialogue from the soap opera, ‘Saath Nibhana Saathiya’. This scene was a quintessential television ‘saas-bahu’ themed and featured ‘Kokilaben’ who was scolding her daughter in laws Gopi Bahu and Rashi.
Other popular works
Yashraj made a song out of Shehnaaz Gill's dialogue from Bigg Boss on 8 December 2020 that became an instant
Internet meme
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. That song has garnered over 70 million views now.
Deepika Padukone
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now danced on Yashraj's version o
Sadda kutta tommyrap on her husband birthday.
He also created a song
Pawri Ho Rahi Hai from a viral video of a Pakistani girl, Dananeer Mobeen, in which she said 'party' in an accented manner. The video was released on 12 February 2021. The meme trended in
Pakistan
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and
India
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.
References
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Living people
21st-century Indian composers
1995 births
Indian YouTubers
Music YouTubers