Sanskrit scholar sings Yo Yo Honey Singh's Dheere Dheere Se, video goes viral

This man is way too cool even for the old school. When musicians in India barely manage to nail a song in Hindi (unless you want a crowd dancing to an upbeat party song shaming Munni and Sheila), this guy took his PhD in Sanskrit to the next level and it's bahu sundram asti.

Pankaj Jha who is pursuing PhD in Sanskrit grammar at Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, New Delhi, sung the famous Hrithik Roshan and Sonam Kapoor starrer track Dheere Dheere Se and gave a new meaning to the beat.

The song has a legacy of its own. It was originally sung by Kumar Sanu in the 1990 release - Aashiqui, and stirred a heart or many.

And if you're feeling nostalgic, then here's the track.

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Without any need of a revamp, Honey Singh in 2015 covered the song in his own Yo Yo way.

And in no time it was 2016 when this happened. Pankaj Jha covered the song in not only a different style but in a different language altogether. Yes guys, in our very own Sanskrit.

Here 's the video:

But how did Jha actually get the idea? Here's the story.

"A student wanted to know if Sanskrit dealt only with old stories and shlokas. I told him there were songs as well," Jha told Hindustan Times.

The kid challenged Jha to sing a famous song in Sanskrit and the man from Jharkhand readily accepted the challenge. And now, it's going viral for all the legit reasons one could ask for.

Pankaj Jha later recorded the track because we all need cool stuff on internet to keep it alive and entertaining, right?

Yes sir!