![]() Suniel Shetty had words of appreciation for the talented cast of the musical. Hats off to the entire team.” Other celebrities present at the show included the director of the film Babbar Subhash, Tanuja, Suniel Shetty, Salim - Sulaiman, Nitin Mukesh, Sunny Leone, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Rema Lahiri with son Rego Lahiri, Sunidhi Chauhan, Anu Malik, Tanishaa Mukerji, Mini Mathur, Maria Goretti, Arshad Warsi, Nikita Dutta, Prakriti and Sukriti Kakar, Namashi Chakraborty, Ahan Shetty, Sanaya Irani, Uorfi Javed, Orry Awatramani, Delnaz Irani and many others. I want to thank Anna (Suniel Shetty) for making this happen. I can't explain what I am feeling right now. And now to relive those memories with this musical has been just incredible. ![]() The Reuters report added that in an apparent show of support, residents in the vicinity left bottled water and provisions next to major roads with signs such saying, “For Foxconn workers returning home”, according to social media posts.Dance legend and the original star of the film Disco Dancer, Mithun Chakraborty was also present at the premiere and said, "Disco Dancer was declared a flop in the very first week itself but then it took off in the second week and kept running for over two years! But a cult film like this comes only once in a lifetime. “Photographs and videos circulating widely on Chinese social media since Saturday showed Foxconn workers trekking across fields in the day and along roads at night,” the Reuters report said. Reuters reported that cities in central China have drawn up plans to isolate workers fleeing to their hometowns from an assembly facility of iPhone-maker Foxconn in outbreak-hit Zhengzhou city. According to Nomura estimates, around 207 million individuals were affected by the lockdown measures. “We expect Beijing to maintain its zero-Covid strategy (ZCS) at least until March 2023, the lockdown situation to worsen due to the winter season and more infectious variants, export growth to slide further on a global slowdown and the property sector to deteriorate further on the lack of a comprehensive solution,” the brokerage Nomura said in a report on Monday.Īt least 28 cities across China had implemented various levels of lockdown measures as of last week. This has led to growing frustration among citizens across the country.īut despite people’s frustrations, it’s unlikely that the government will change its strategy any time soon against the backdrop of the rising Covid cases being reported from across the country.Īt least 2,898 new Covid-19 cases were reported on mainland China on Sunday, topping 2,000 for a second consecutive day, the national health commission (NHC) said on Monday. The song, however, seems to have evaded the censors until now given its comedic nature.Įven as the rest of the world has moved on to existing with the virus, China has refused to do so, doubling down on its “zero-Covid” strategy with snap lockdowns, mass testing and strict restrictions on movement. Social media is closely monitored in China with most criticism against the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) leadership or its policies being swiftly censored. In the videos, netizens are shown dancing to the song with empty vessels in their hands, with many of them wearing improvised saris as they sway to the rhythm. ![]() Various versions of the song have been viewed millions of times on social media, especially on Douyin, China’s version of TikTok. It can be interpreted as a plea from the people to the government to lift its harsh restrictions that are put in to place even when only a handful of Covid-19 cases are reported from a locality. No need to give much rice, my family has only a few members.” ![]() In Mandarin, the song is being transliterated to mean, “Give me some rice? Who can give me? I ran out of it. The chorus of the original song – which has music by Bappi Lahiri and is sung by Parvati Khan - when transliterated into Mandarin sounds something like “give me rice”. The classic Jimmy Jimmy Aaja Aaja from the movie Disco Dancer has become the unusual choice for citizens exasperated with lockdowns and Covid-related restrictions to voice their discontent with a song and dance. Netizens are grooving to 1982 classic Jimmy Jimmy Aaja Aaja with empty vessels in their hands, and many of them wearing improvised saris, in protest against the country’s strict Covid-19 restrictions. A screengrab of a video doing rounds on Chinese social media. A superhit song from a Mithun Chakraborty movie released in 1982 is being widely viewed and shared on short video platforms in China as a song of protest against the government’s strict Covid-19 restrictions. ![]()
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