Mumbai: The young girl Priya Prakash Varrier who’s winking eye video that went viral on social media and became sensational on world of internet during the Valentine’s Day week is now again grabbing media attention with her package of cost giving by product companies.
Basically, this budding Malayalam actress who acquired massive fan following in very much shot time has now become the hot favorite star of the top branding companies as they are read to pay heavy cost to actress for promotion of their products.
The companies are eager willing to pay this sweet looking young girl a sum of amount Rs 8 to 10 lakhs for promoting their products on her Instagram account as she is having more followers in comparison to any other big celebrity in Bollywood industry.
Now let us tell you all that in 30 seconds, Priya Varrier has achieved a thousand milestones. The short clip of a schoolgirl and a schoolboy exchanging flirtatious glances has not only become 2018’s biggest meme, it’s made a debutant actress a social media sensation overnight.
The video winked its way into the headlines for an audience which was thirsting for some relief from terror and ‘dirty’ politics. It made us feel-for a brief 30 seconds-that we weren’t our cynical, grey-haired (well, some of us), insecure selves but passionate, confident, joyous and above all, young.
Ah, to be sixteen and to have the whole world before you in a mad sweep of potential. And to be totally and confidently unaware of it too. That’s the real secret of the eyebrows that launched a thousand memes.
Companies ready to pay Priya Prakash heavy amount for brand promotion:
Not the mash-ups with Arvind Kejriwal and Donald Trump (and to be honest, once you’ve seen one politician raising his eyebrows, you’ve seen them all) but the way it presses rewind on our collective consciousness.
But in country like India. Politics is like mother’s milk for all Indians and if you can’t raise eyebrows with a video of raising eyebrows, well, you may as well go to Pakistan. So within 24 hours of Priya Varrier’s TV interviews, the slugfests were in full swing.
Islamic groups demanded a ban on the song featuring Priya Varrier’s dancing eyebrows, not really because of the eyebrows, but because of the lyrics of the song. It’s a rendition of an old Mappila song, performed by a student at a school fest-as other students are shown discovering love.
The song itself talks about how Prophet Mohammed’s wife fell in love with him at first sight and took the initiative to propose marriage. Wow! Who knew that the Prophet’s wife may have been the first feminist? And would such a spirited lady have approved of these fatwas? I think not.
Particularly appropriate then, that the character played by Priya Varrier appears to be taking the initiative too. As the young actress told English news channel in an interview well before the fatwas, and the frothing at the mouth began- ‘Why should boys have all the fun?’ Or, to put it another way, why should the patriarchs get to issue all the fatwas?
Now we owe it, not just to Priya Varrier, but to our young, optimistic pasts and to our older but wiser futures, to take the song in the spirit it’s meant. Those eyebrows didn’t mean any disrespect, let’s keep them dancing.
