If one is following the days of the week that builds up to Valentine’s day, then as per the schedule, today is ‘Hug Day’, tomorrow is ‘Kiss Day’ and then finally it’ll be Valentine’s Day. V-day is a day when some boys and girls would fuss about ‘not celebrating’ it up to the mark, boys complain of pressures to buy the right gift and girls waiting to make an issue of the day not well spent. It’s that time of the year when in some parts of the country, activists will be seen chasing young couples if seen together and other couples try to decide on the way forward depending on how V-day goes.
V-Day is also making a splash on the internet, and with loads of humour too, especially on Youtube. It’s filled with stuff that make you either smile or laugh, whether you agree and disagree with what young men and women do for Valentine’s day.
BB ki Vine hit it right with his selfie comedy vines on what ‘goes into making a successful’ V-day. Bhuvan Bam is 22-year-old and he says “while a Vine should be short, mine are longer. Valentine’s Week Hutiyapa is around 4 minutes.”
His Vine begins with a cribbing Bhuvan explaining his situation on the Valentine’s week. He explains funnily what happened to the rose, he bought for Rose Day, why he had to buy a box of imported chocolate who’s name he cannot pronounce (while he and friends grew up eating the dairy milk that costs Rs 5). In the Vine, Bhuvan asks why girls who always refuse chocolates all year round, insist on chocolates on Chocolate Day and then wants a life-size teddy bear for Teddy Day. Does that mean he is against V-day? “I better not, I also have a girlfriend but none of our friends do these rituals anymore. This was a part of our growing age,” he laughs. Bhuvan says the failures on gifting and celebrating isn’t strange, “the failures then, makes us look back and laugh,” he adds.
Incidentally , Bhuvan’s name in the comedy videos is Bhancho. “No offence,” he says.
Comedy Vines aside, the web series that is tickling the funny bone to mark Valentine’s day is TVF’s Permanent Roommates . This web series is about more than failures — gifting option headaches and issues on what to eat out on a date. Permanent Roommates deals with real life and what happens on a date of Mikesh and Tanya. Imagine the situation, where the movie, snacks and power backup is ready and then ‘hey I forgot to pee.’ Or a knock at the door while a marriage proposal is just happening? And finally the visitor is knocking at the wrong door? Sometimes, it is about cheesy boyfriends against a more practical girl.
The revised version of Permanent roommates says: ‘Come laugh, cry and fall in love with them again...’
TVF has collaborated with dating and social discovery application, Tinder, to launch the first Qtiyapa show of 2016 - Eat, Pray...Swipe | Tinder Qtiyapa. The sketch takes a humorous view of the experience of meeting someone new by bringing the app experience alive. Quite literally! Here’s what Director , Raghav Subbu had to say about the show, “The idea of ‘Eat, Pray...Swipe | Tinder Qtiyapa’ came from a simple thought of bringing the app to real life. The purpose of this sketch was to bend our rigid cultural taboo against dating apps and make women aware that there are sound and decent men out there at the swipe of a finger.”
So, if you are against looking cheesy on V-Day and doing cheesy things like carrying a huge teddy bear for an overgrown adult, then try this: Have khajoor on V-Day, then you can at least say I had a date on V-Day. Go ahead, just reserve the last laugh for yourself.
