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Tunak Tunak Tun: What Happened to Daler Mehndi? – Tales From the Internet

Whang! | November 11, 2025



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Daler Mehndi’s Tunak Tunak Tun was one of the first viral music memes that I remember, and had a surprisingly long shelf life compared to the memes of today. And he actually stayed very busy since then, producing an absurd amount of music. However, he was also involved in an unfortunate human trafficking case!

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  1. @NetherStray

    November 11, 2025 at 8:04 am

    >led to it becoming an emote in World of Warcraft
    I'm sure other people commented this already but yeah, nah. The male Draenei came out of the box with that as their dance emote. There isn't really "adding emotes" to WoW. Game's a bit too old for that kind of swanky tech. Someone just made a WoW machinima using the models to make a parody/WoW version of the music video.

  2. @Galantski

    November 11, 2025 at 8:04 am

    And "Tunak Tunak Tun" is still going remarkably strong in 2024. It was re-uploaded to Daler Mehndi's official YouTube channel last year and already has 11M views!

  3. @mandiiXmonster777

    November 11, 2025 at 8:04 am

    NO. WAY. me and my best friend grew up thinking this song was just some false thing we thought we heard her brother playing when we were kids. never again had anyone ever knew what we were singing and now you have a whole video on this ?! this is wild, memory unlocked 😂

  4. @Not0iletpaper4

    November 11, 2025 at 8:04 am

    I haven’t been able too find the original video did it get taken down? I remember this Music video before YouTube had ads and all the other bs 😂I showed everyone the video 😢😂

  5. @KamiNoBaka1

    November 11, 2025 at 8:04 am

    Dude, I'm surprised you didn't go on a minor tangent about how he did the theme song to Baahubali 2 since he did the theme song for it. That movie's some crazy-ass shit.

  6. @deanmorton8236

    November 11, 2025 at 8:04 am

    I didn't realize this was a big meme song! Back in the early 00's, this video was on the "morale drive" (essentially a public folder) available on a DoD secure network for US troops deployed to the middle east. I thought (at the time) this was just a popular song in the region. We called it the "Camel Spider Song", and this takes me back to a time that really sucked but I'm still weirdly nostalgic for.

  7. @Arthurzeiro

    November 11, 2025 at 8:04 am

    My GOD! I grew up with the portuguese version of "Benny Lava" called "Rivaldo Sai Desse Lago" without ever knowing there was an original english version. My mind is blown to pieces

  8. @73caddydaddy93

    November 11, 2025 at 8:04 am

    I was all about this back in the day, my desktop on my military computer was Daler in a Rolls Royce, me and some other guys were gonna dress up and reenact the music video for a Halloween party

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