Jun 27, 2016
VIDEO: 'Call Me Maybe' Parody Pokes Fun At India's Marriage Ads
The music on the video sounds familiar, but the words definitely aren't.
It's the megahit "Call Me Maybe," by Carly Rae Jepsen, but with different lyrics:
"Once you come into my house you will have no life. Cause you'll be a wife. You'll have no, no life."
Asmita Ghosh and Anukripa Elango, musically inclined seniors at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Chennai, came up with "Be Our Pondati" — that's Tamil for "be our wife" — for a college parody contest this spring. They wrote the lyrics overnight, and for the fun of it, spent four hours shooting and editing a video featuring their friend, Krupa Varghese, dressed up like a matriarch who's bride-hunting for her son.
