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Do you know who is trending in Kashmir?

Some trending personalities of Kashmir these days

Trending on social media is not easy but it is luck

Lots of artist, politicians trends on daily, weekly, monthly bases in Kashmir.

In this topic we discussed three personalities which are

  1. Altaf Bhukhari.
  2. Gaffar Sofi.
  3. Kashur Mashur.

Altaf Bukhari

Altaf Bukhari
Altaf Bukhari

In previous month, there was a politician ‘Altaf Bukhari’ who goes trending when he launched his new political party as ‘Apni Party’ in Kashmir after months of political disturbances in J&K.

Who is Altaf Bukhari?

Altaf Bukhari is a Kashmiri politician who left the People Democratic Party (PDD) after the abrogation of Article 370 and launched his own party as Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party.

Gaffar Sofi

Gaffar Sofi
Gaffar Sofi

A new name is going on trend as ‘Gaffar Sofi’ who is fictional character on social media acts as a comedian.

Who is Gaffar Sofi?

Gaffar Sofi is a comedian and fictional character on social media in Kashmir, who posts memes, videos on criticism, fun, humor.

In a research of CT, the Gaffar Sofi jumps his fan following reach to 500k on social media platform in Kashmir. Based on facebook followership increase rate, the page gains 15K followers per week in February 2020.

Gaffar Sofi, a comedian and a fictional character works for the mission to laughter Kashmiris. While talking in a social media conversation with Chenab Times correspondent, Sofi said, “I am here to make Kashmiris smile, as we people faced the brutality, lockdowns, curfews, encounters due to which majority of Kashmiris never smiles.”

“I along with my team working for the mission to spread the smile to Kashmiris,” he added.

Kashur Mashur

Kashur Mashur
Kashur Mashur

There had been different types of comedians who recently got viral and disappeared. In this topic of discussion, we can’t forget the names of those personalities. One of the artist, famed as ‘Kashur Mashur’ who became popular last year for her videos using snapchat filter. She promised her fans to reveals her face, when her fan following on Instagram touches 10K and she did it.

Who is Kashur Mashur?

A sikh girl Sunaina Choudhary from Jammu popular as Zara (character) fame Kashur Mashur.

She was popular for the Kashmiri accent and also became more popular when she started dogri videos. Because Kashmiri and Dogri are two different types of languages in J&K which are separates from culture inside the state (now UT). People can’t believe a Kashmiri speaking girl can speak pure Dogri. This took her viral on social media platform. After she revealed her real name and address, she was Sunaina Choudhary from Jammu. While talking with Chenab Times, she said, “I made the videos for uniting the Kashmir and Jammu because it is separated on the basis of hate by some politicians.”

So this was the topic on three personalities in Kashmir.

 

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