Overworked & underpaid?

Then find resonance in 4 tune kookies' music video -- Bade Kompani -- that has become a viral hit. Will a white-collared office manager wrecking his office prove to be cathartic?

Overworked & underpaid?

Then find resonance in 4 tune kookies' music videou00a0-- Bade Kompaniu00a0-- that has become a viral hit. Will a white-collared office manager wrecking his office prove to be cathartic?

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If you log on to the web to look up 4 tune kookies, expecting spectacular vocals and mind-blowing music, you will be disappointed. However, like us, if you look them up expecting nothing, chances are they will elicit a giggle even on a headache-inducing Monday. Sure, their lyrics might look like they've been tweaked too hard to rhyme, but it is only obvious that the guys behind the music band are genuinely trying to tickle your funny bone.

A still from Bade Kompani in which the frustrated employee wrecks his office

4 tune kookies, which was called The People two decades ago before it was disbanded, came together some months back and has now come out with its second music video. Bade Kompani, as it is called, has gone on to become quite a viral hit, with over 3,500 views in three months.

Starting off in what looks like the cabin of a manager tapping away on his keyboard, it progresses to delve into the professional angst of the white-collared chap. He goes from pasting a note with "I Quit" written all over, to breaking his pencils, making a caricature of the framed photo of the company's Managing Director (MD -- also made into a Hindi cuss word) to more or less wrecking his entire office cabin -- all the while singing in English about how his salary that is 'peanuts every month' is 'not enough for an educated guy like me'.

"I wrote the song years ago and though the frustration is exaggerated in the video, we all have felt it at some point in our lives and felt like wrecking our offices," says Ronnie Desai, singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist with the band. "We are not really instigating people to put in their papers but may be it's just a co-incidence that my friend Atul Churamani,u00a0 former vice president of Saregama, left his job shortly after launching the song." The song is being marketed by music company Saregama India Ltd.

This is the second video of 4 tune kookies that comprises Babu Chowdhary (lead guitarist), Ranjit Barot (drummer) and Hodi Nanji (bassist) apart from Ronnie, who appears as the MD in the framed picture. The video has been directed by ad filmmaker Naren Multani, who has garnered praise for his short films at international festivals.u00a0

"We told our actor, Manoj Shetty, who also happens to hail from an advertising background, to go around and have fun wrecking things as the day of the shoot happened to be his birthday," laughs Naren. "Who knew that a lot of people would be able to identify with it." Naren has also got in cinematic references from American History X and Pulp Fiction.

Coming up next from the wacky bunch: A song called Pakistani Spy. Will a guy manage to enlist a rock musician in his terrorist outfit? Stay tuned to find out.
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