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‘Rs 20 mein baal toh kataye honge’: Yash Bhardwaj on why his ‘saloon’ website went viral
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The Indian Express
So when a website called Saloon.wtf began making the rounds on social media, it did not merely remind people of old barber shops.
The website, created by Mumbai-based designer and internet entrepreneur Yash Bhardwaj, is remarkably simple.
I made a website that plays bangers from indian barbershops before you became fancy and started visiting salons.
For Bhardwaj, however, the website was never meant to become a viral phenomenon.
Reels of people talking about the songs they heard in Indian barber shops during the 1990s and early 2000s were being described as the “peak Indian male experience”.