Tamil Internet Sensation

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A Tamil film song in broken English has gone viral on the Internet, gaining more than 16 million hits on YouTube.

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with the BBC’s Rahul Tandon is in Calcutta about the song in the Tamil language that’s become wildly popular in India and on the Internet.

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