Watch: Pakistan responds to Indian satire group with own version of 'Mere saamne wali sarhad pe'

Remember the soulful and hard-hitting ‘Meri saamne wali sarhad pe’ video by  Aisi Taisi Democracy, an Indian political satire YouTube show on Independence Day?

The song, a rendition of the popular Hindi song ‘Mere saamne wali khidki pe’ from the film Padosan, touched upon the similarities between the people of India and Pakistan and the issues they faced. The Being Indian page had even requested people to share the video so that it reaches Pakistan, where YouTube is banned.

Now it seems that Pakistan has not only watched the video, but has actually responded to it with its own rendition of the song. The song goes: ‘Mere saamne wali sarhad par, sunte hain ki dushman rehta hai. Sattar baras hone ko hai kuch ukhda ukhda rehta hai. ‘. (We have heard that there are enemies at the border but it has been almost 70 years yet they seem aloof.) The lyrics of the song are just as hard-hitting but the sentiment is expressed so well, you cannot help but see their point of view.

Titled Aisi Taisi Hypocricy, a direct play on Aisi Taisi Democracy, it is also satire on the political ties between the two nations, written by Hassan Miraj, a Major in the Pakistani Army and performed by Mujtaba Ali, according to The Indian Express . The report also quotes Miraj as saying, “I heard the song created by Aisi Taisi Democracy and was impressed. I thought we must respond. It’s not just you, even the people of Pakistan want peace."

Sample the following lyrics, a direct comment on the way both countries are run - ‘Tum Dubai mein bande jama karo, hum Cheen se pyaar badhaate hain, tum BJP ko ballot do, hum Mulla se jaan chhudaate hain, Wahan RSS ki sena hai, yahan Zaid ka manjan bikta hai.’  (You’ll gather men in Dubai, we develop deep bonds with China, you vote for BJP, we try to escape from Mullas, they have the RSS army and we have Zaid.)

But the most poignant part of the song is probably this - ‘Gaali dena ab chhod bhi do, baitho kuch kaam ki baat kare Kab tak bandook banayenge, bachho ko ab kuch dhyaan bhi dein Na Bhutto ka na Gandhi ka, ye tera mera funda hai’ (Let’s stop abusing each other and lets sit and talk it out. We have made enough guns, let’s give our children some wisdom now. This isn’t the way of Gandhis or Bhuttos but that of us common citizens.) This is a play on the original songs lyrics, ‘Bas do family ko chaandi hain, wahaan Bhutto hain, yahaan Gandhi hain’ (Only two families rule, Bhutto there, Gandhi here) asking people to take action rather than relying on the political families, in a touching conclusion to the 4-minute song.

Indeed, Indians and Pakistanis are not so different after all, even if our governments are.

Watch the full video here