The Indian High Commission in Tanzania honored internet sensation Kili Paul, the content creator from Tanzania in East Africa, who is famous on Instagram and other social platforms for lip-syncing and grooving to popular Indian hits. The Indian High Commission posted about the “special visitor” on Twitter who has “won millions of hearts in India”.

Kili Paul has over 2 million subscribers on Instagram. Many actors in India are said to follow him on social media. 

Along with lip-syncing to popular Hindi film songs, the tall and lanky Kili Paul also presents his dancing skills in the videos in his tribal dress. One of Kili Paul's videos - ‘Raatan Lambiyan' from the film Shershaah - in which his sister Neema also made an appearance, was particularly liked by the netizens.

Social media users have appreciated Kili Paul for maintaining his tradition and posting videos in his traditional Masai dress.

 Kili Paul's Instagram profile describes him as a “dancer and content creator”. He also has a YouTube channel where all of his popular videos have been posted.

One of his recent posts was about the wildly popular ‘Kacha Badam', the grassroots marketing song of a rural peanut seller, Bhuban Badyakar from West Bengal, whose remix has become an internet hit.  

Kili Paul's sister Neema is seen performing alongside him.

“Since everyone wanted to see @neemapaul155 dance to this, here it is the best she can do,” Kili Paul said in his caption for the video.

Indian High Commissioner to Tanzania, Binaya Srikanta Pradhan, took to Twitter to share photographs from Paul's recent visit to the Indian mission where he was applauded for winning "millions of hearts" in India with his videos.

According to some media reports, Kili Paul belongs to Mindu Tulieni, a small village about 300 km from Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam, where he dances in front of a mobile phone set on a tripod a few meters away from their home. The nearest town, Lugoba, Pwani region, is an hour’s walk away. Since there is no electricity in the village, Kili walks to the town every day to charge his phone.

(SAM)