If you’re an active social media user, there’s no way you would have missed this amazing dance performance, by India’s latest internet star, fondly referred to as the #DancingUncle.
Days after a video of him performing at a relative’s wedding, social media found its new muse, a middle-aged man setting the stage on fire with his classic Bollywood moves and a devil-may-care attitude!
We did some digging and found out that the man in the video, Sanjeev Srivastava, is a professor in the electronics department at the Bhabha Engineering Research Institute, in Bhopal. Professor Sanjeev Srivastava has also been appointed as the brand ambassador by Vidisha Municipal Corporation, further rewarding for his viral performance.
Speaking to The Quint, Sanjay Shukla who is an assistant professor at Bhabha Engineering Research Institute confirmed that the man in the video is a professor at the institute and has been working there for almost eight years.
He said the viral video of him was shot at a relative’s wedding in Gwalior, adding that Srivastava often takes to the stage at college functions.
Srivastava, who has been compared to Bollywood actor and dance legend, Govinda is seen dancing to a song called ‘May se Meena se na Saaaqi se’ from the 1987 movie ‘Khudgarz’, starring actors Govinda and Neelam. The woman dancing alongside him is his wife Anjali.
I have been dancing since 1982. Dance is a god-gifted talent in me. I was inspired by my mother Mohini Devi Srivastava who has been a classical dancer. I have not got any formal training. I won Madhya Pradesh’s best dancer award three times in the eighties in competitions held in Bhopal.Sanjeev Srivastava told Hindustan Times.
As per reports in the Hindustan Times, as a young man Srivastava tried hard to make it big in dancing. Little did he know that he would become a internet sensation overnight, as the video has been shared and circulated by netizens across Facebook, Whatsapp and Twitter.
People have appreciated and praised Srivastava, calling him “dancing uncle” and praising him for his zealous performance.
Twitter user Gautam Trivedi’s post on Srivastava’s Govinda dance got more than 5,000 retweets and it has been ‘liked’ by more than 10,000 people.
Senior journalist Barkha Dutt responded to fellow journalist Tina Sharma’s tweet of the video clip, calling it ‘SUPERB’.
One user also declared Srivastava as the special winner of the #FitnessChallenge thrown by Minister of State Youth Affairs & Sports, Rajyavardhan Rathore.
If you still haven’t watched the video, leave whatever you’re doing and watch it right now!
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