{"id":4161,"date":"2009-07-07T02:06:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T20:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2009-07-07T02:06:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T20:36:01","slug":"peeto-peeto-thok-ke-peeto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/peeto-peeto-thok-ke-peeto\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Peeto, Peeto, Thok Ke Peeto\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The video below is surely the most inspired Michael Jackson tribute ever. Goodness me.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IrVEa356SQM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" ><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Mr Chaudhry has also performed an English version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=peipSJVzRP4\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-0\" title=\"'Beat It' by K Chaudhry\">&#8220;Beat It&#8221;<\/a>, as well as many, <i>many<\/i> other songs. The first I heard of him was when a reader named Catfish forwarded me his rendition of Avril Lavigne&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D94Q3ldPbaA\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-1\" title=\"'Skater Boy' by K Chaudhry\">&#8220;Skater Boy&#8221;<\/a> a few months ago. The nonchalant matter-of-factness at the start is superb, isn&#8217;t it? <\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>The reason I didn&#8217;t blog about his marvellous videos when I first discovered them was that it seemed cruel. Here&#8217;s a man, in perfect good faith, uploading videos of himself singing karaoke, something that most of us would never have the guts to do; and here we all are, watching and laughing. I&#8217;ve always found those early episodes of <i>Indian Idol<\/i> and <i>American Idol<\/i> rather cruel for how they make fun of those horrendously bad singers in the early auditions. Sure, we can joke about how it&#8217;s their choice to put themselves out there, and tut-tut their self-delusions. But I would contend that we&#8217;re all self-deluded in different ways&#8212;most of our delusions stay private, so lucky us.<\/p>\n<p>I finally decided to embed this video because I find Mr Chaudhry immensely endearing, and I&#8217;m sure most of you would agree. And besides being a likable old man, he&#8217;s also putting himself out there, ineptly and awkwardly trying to make the best of what he&#8217;s got. Isn&#8217;t that true of most of us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video below is surely the most inspired Michael Jackson tribute ever. Goodness me.<\/p>\n<p>[embedded video]<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chaudhry has also performed an English version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=peipSJVzRP4\" title=\"'Beat It' by K Chaudhry\">&#8220;Beat It&#8221;<\/a>, as well as many, <i>many<\/i> other songs. The first I heard of him was when a reader named Catfish forwarded me his rendition of Avril Lavigne&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D94Q3ldPbaA\" title=\"'Skater Boy' by K Chaudhry\">&#8220;Skater Boy&#8221;<\/a> a few months ago. The nonchalant matter-of-factness at the start is superb, isn&#8217;t it? <\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>The reason I didn&#8217;t blog about his marvellous videos when I first discovered them was that it seemed cruel. Here&#8217;s a man, in perfect good faith, uploading videos of himself singing karaoke, something that most of us would never have the guts to do; and here we all are, watching and laughing. I&#8217;ve always found those early episodes of <i>Indian Idol<\/i> and <i>American Idol<\/i> rather cruel for how they make fun of those horrendously bad singers in the early auditions. Sure, we can joke about how it&#8217;s their choice to put themselves out there, and tut-tut their self-delusions. But I would contend that we&#8217;re all self-deluded in different ways&#8212;most of our delusions stay private, so lucky us.<\/p>\n<p>I finally decided to embed this video because I find Mr Chaudhry immensely endearing, and I&#8217;m sure most of you would agree. And besides being a likable old man, he&#8217;s also putting himself out there, ineptly and awkwardly trying to make the best of what he&#8217;s got. Isn&#8217;t that true of most of us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Peeto, Peeto, Thok Ke Peeto\u2019 - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/peeto-peeto-thok-ke-peeto\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Peeto, Peeto, Thok Ke Peeto\u2019 - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The video below is surely the most inspired Michael Jackson tribute ever. Goodness me. 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