pm modi sporting tattooed muscled arms walks into the wwe ring the crowd breaks into a cheer as he tackles samajwadi party leader akhilesh yadav the tackily edited video ends with a triumphant yadav walking to victory the clip has clearly fired peoples imagination racking up 77 million views in the last couple of monthslast week a video about congress president rahul gandhi styled as gully boy went viral too helped along by congress twitter handles standup comic kunal kamras scathing take on politics got 54 million views this week while political satirist akash banerjee says he has added one lakh subscribers in the last 30 daysaway from election rallies and neighbourhood chai pe charchas online satire has boomed in the last couple of months as rahul ram from aisi taisi democracy sang recently phir aaya hai time to choose who will screw us more from his song chunav ka maheena a takeoff from the popular 70s track saavan ka maheena but unlike the sharp satire interspersed with song that aisi taisi a comedy collective comprising sanjay rajoura rahul ram and varun grover is known for most online comedy lampoons political leaders using bollywood references so with some deft editing the same videos feature modi delhi cm arvind kejriwal and up cm yogi adityanath alternatively as gabbar singh singham and donpolitics mein bhi entertainment hona chahiye people are more keen to see modi and rahul rather than salman khan and srk says lucknowbased faizaan siddiqui whose studio made the rahul gandhi gully boy videosixteenyearold hasnain sheikh started making political spoofs as an escape from boredom the schoolboy from balasinor city near ahmedabad made his first video on his mobile phone which by his own admission was of terrible quality but it got a lakh hits which made him sit up and get serious his channel spoof xerox has since hosted parodies of modi kejriwal and akhilesh yadav antimodi videos get the most hits he says like spoof xerox there are others like politics solitics and hindi mashup that are part of an ever growing spoof factoryakash banerjee a former journalist better known by his online avatar bhakt banerjee boasts of half a million subscribers on his youtube channel rather than merely lampooning or deifying leaders banerjee uses facts laced with dry humour to make his point satire is powerful and i feel that it does influence votes hanste hanste while you are laughing you make a deeper point and if you can make someone see a divergent point of view my job is done he saysbanerjee says that a mainstream tv channel has expressed interest in hosting his videos indicating a growing acceptance of his brand of political critiqueso have indians finally grown a funny bone or maybe comics have developed thicker skin people get abusive and threaten us but i dont get demoralised i have realised that only people who dont understand humour make negative comments says siddiquiram from aisi taisi feels that humour works better than rage rage