This story is from September 4, 2018

Fasak! It’s trending and only actor Mohan Babu can say what the word means

A new word ‘fasak’ has taken the internet by storm. And only 68-year-old Telugu actor Mohan Babu can tell what it means. And what could be the language.
Fasak! It’s trending and only actor Mohan Babu can say what the word means
A new word ‘fasak’ has taken the internet by storm. And only 68-year-old Telugu actor Mohan Babu can tell what it means. And what could be the language.
While the exact meaning is not known, because it does not have a meaning as such, it is trending on social media. Everyone is coming up with their own meaning and using it in a context.
On Monday, Mohan Babu who has been in the film field for the last 43 years, exclaimed how happy he was at knowing the word ‘fasak’ was trending.
The actor had used the word in an interview to a television channel.
He describes how in his role in a film he asks someone to kill his (Mohan Babu’s) wife. As he leaves to carry out his order, he explains the sequence during the interview in English saying that the killing is not to be carried out by stabbing repeatedly. “Don’t kill so many like this. Only once. Fasak,” Mohan Babu says in the interview describing the scene in the film and the dialogue. The word ‘Fasak’ is not used in the movie but Mohan Babu with a hand gesture shows how the neck should be sliced. “Only once. Fasak,” he says.
The word has gone viral on all social media platforms. And everyone is showing in videos and memes posted giving their own meaning to it. Or just using it to mean whatever.
With ‘fasak’ trending, Mohan Babu tweeted on Monday saying: Fasak. Good to know it is trending. Manchu Vishnu tells me there are minimum 200 spoof videos. Saw some really innovative and funny.”
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Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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