Dubsmash: From Berlin to Bollywood, lip-syncing has gone viral like never before

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Dubsmash: From Berlin to Bollywood,
lip-syncing has gone viral like never before
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When was the last thing you heard about Snapchat being the coolest thing to do? Seriously, you couldn’t have been more wrong about this! That either means you don’t know about dubsmash, or you have stopped watching the new apps that are setting the smartphones on complete laughter mode. After all, dubsmash has gone viral in the recent times, and the videos generated using this app are super hilarious!dubsmash? Any average person with some penchant for humour will dig dubsmash. That means, almost every smartphone user who has access to apps can use this.

The universality of dubsmash has not only given vent to scores of talents, famous or not-so-famous, giving them a window to showcase their own talent to themselves, and also to the world. Now, wouldn’t this world be a better place if we stop taking ourselves so seriously, and stop for a moment to share laughter and fun times with friends, even at our own expense?Dubsmash is all about searching for your favourite line from a wide range of films, Hindi or Hollywood or even music videos and lip syncing to create a hilarious effect. Founded by German developers Jonas Druppel and Roland Grenke and Daniel Taschik, dubsmash has been so far downloaded by more than 10 million users worldwide!dubsmash believes in ‘good things come in small packages!’

AIB that took the entire film fraternity come together to laugh and let laugh, dubsmash is about laughing—at self and others too!dubsmash big time. And the result of this newfound love is simply enjoyable to say the least. If you have not watched Priyanka Chopra – Ranveer duo, Sonakshi and Salman’s show, and Alia Bhat shrieking like a child while the beautiful Shruti Hassan impersonate Gabbar Singh with quirky expressions, you are truly missing some genuine fun in life.

Chulbul Pandey, this is your chance to do it. And if you do it extremely well, the world may even get to watch it when you upload it to the net!favourite dialogue like ‘hum to madira nahi peete hai ji…’ of Sridevi from Chaalbaaz, and lip sync it to your heart’s content while recording your expression simultaneously. Once the 10-12 sec video is done, just share this pure joy with anyone you like!dubsmash fever which has been more than addictive. This is somewhat narcissistic too, in keeping with the actors’ professions!

dubsmash is pretty hard to analyze right now. Today, it is just feeding a fever that was more like the ice bucket challenge or the blue and black or gold and white dress challenge that even got the celebrities involved and broke the Internet while the challenge lasted.
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Dubsmash has been around since the last couple of months and those videos are nothing else but pure joy.

Kollywood and Tollywood (Tamil and Telugu) have also given into the new-found addiction. dubsmash has recently found way into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s den too! A youth successfully dubsmashed a bit of Modi’s style of statements on ‘desh’.

dubsmash exists for the next 100 years. But for a country that is plagued with more problems than solutions, dubsmash is easily one of the most entertaining ways of keeping oneself amused. And film actors or politicians are not an exception to this. Who knows, in the coming days, you may even hear someone dubsmashing minister Smriti Irani or Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for a comic relief!

The only hope towards sanity is humour, and none other than Bollywood knows it well. Hope the rest of India also takes a break and has a hearty laughter.

(Image credits: economictimes.com)