Yashraj Mukhate

Yashraj Mukhate (born 28 November 1995^[3]), is an Indian music producer, composer, YouTuber and social media personality. He is best known for his viral parodical video where he set rap beats to a scene featured in the television soap opera Saath Nibhaana Saathiya in August 2020.^[4]

Yashraj Mukhate
Born	(1995-11-28) 28 November 1995 (age 27)^[1] Aurangabad, India
Genres	Electronic music Spoof Songs
Occupation(s)	Music producer YouTuber
Years active	2010–present
YouTube information
Channel	Yashraj Mukhate
Subscribers	5 million^[2]
Total views	798 million^[2]
Creator Awards 100,000 subscribers 1,000,000 subscribers
Last updated: 23 July 2023

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.^[5] In August 2020, he uploaded an edited video which added a rap song to a dialogue delivery by Rupal Patel who played the role of Kokila in the television soap opera Saath Nibhaana Saathiya.^[6] The video quickly garnered 3 million views on Instagram and created a spate of related memes.^[7] 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.^[8]

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.^[9] That song has garnered over 70 million views now. Deepika Padukone now danced on Yashraj's version of Sadda kutta tommy rap on her husband birthday.^[10] 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 and India.

References

1. Bhagat, Mallika (28 August 2020). "#Rasodemeinkontha rapper Yashraj Mukhate says: Rupal ma'am aka Kokilaben loved the video!". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
2. "About Yashraj Mukhate". YouTube.
3. Bhagat, Mallika (28 August 2020). "#Rasodemeinkontha rapper Yashraj Mukhate says: Rupal ma'am aka Kokilaben loved the video!". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
4. "Man turns TV show dialogue into a rap song. Hilarious video goes viral - Trending. News". indiatoday.in. 20 August 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
5. "Music producer turns Kokilaben's dialogues into a rap song, video is breaking the internet". The Indian Express. 22 August 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
6. "Yashraj Mukhate on his Kokilaben video: Never expected it to go viral this way". The Indian Express. 24 August 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
7. "As Kokilaben rap goes viral, Rashi memes and jokes take over Twitter". The Indian Express. 23 August 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
8. Kulkarni, Yukta (23 August 2020). "Meet Yashraj Mukhate- The Music Producer Behind The Viral Meme Song 'Rashi'". Binge Watcher. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
9. "Tuada Kutta Tommy - Meme Meaning And Origin Explained". HumorNama. 14 December 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
10. "Deepika Padukone's birthday wish for husband Ranveer Singh is the cutest". Bollywood Bubble. 6 July 2021. Retrieved 6 July 2021.

External links

• Yashraj Mukhate at IMDb