Chennai
Smile Settai, an entertainment group that has a Facebook following of 240,967 people, uploaded a parody video of the scenes right outside the examination hall.
“We run a show on the lines of The Tonight show, where we show political satires. Soon after the NEET exam scrutiny was all over the news, we came up with the script within half an hour,” explains Vignesh, co-founder of Smile Settai.
The video shows a student walking inside the examination hall completely dressed and he is forced to remove his clothes by the examiner. The video becomes funnier when the student walks in his undergarment with a twig. When the examiner asked what the twig was, the student says that since the nib of the pen could be metallic, he’d get back to the good old ways.
Another group called Temple Monkeys, uploaded a video called ‘I don’t NEET you’ feat (sic), Prof Rangabashyam, showing happy students taking selfies before entering the exam and the ordeal they go through, while being checked by a Hindi-speaking examiner. There is also a rowdy with a knife, cutting shirtsleeves of the students in style. The video got over 5,000 views. The meme makers had enough content to work with.
“There are many scenes in Tamil cinema where the comedian walks inside a house or room, confidently dressed and walks out beaten black and blue. Those images are classic when it comes to creating memes about the NEET fiasco,” says Ashok Pandian, a meme maker.
DMK leader Stalin too made a comeback this time. “Remember the iconic photo of Stalin outside the Fort Saint George after the no-confidence motion with his shirt torn? We used that image to depict what students looked like when they came out of the examination hall,” says Karthik S, a college student and a meme maker. This apart, there were some angry status messages and tweets and some even vowed to never let their children write NEET.
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