Kolkata Police issue advisory over Kiki dance challenge

Using the parody of a dialogue of Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui from the movie Gangs of Wasseypur, Kolkata Traffic Police wrote on its Facebook and Twitter accounts, "Not worth risking your life. Say NO to #KikiChallenge."

"As the risky Kiki dance challenge has become a worrying social media trend, we have chosen our social media platforms to promote awareness against the dangerous and unsafe on-road game," a city police official told IBNS.

Recently, police departments of Gujrat, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi released warnings against Kiki Challenge and asked people not to perform the Kiki dance on the roads.

Earlier on Sunday (July 29), Bengali actress Darshana Banik uploaded her Kiki Challenge video, which was performed on a Kolkata road, on her social account and it went viral very soon.

"If popular faces promote such risky games, general people and their fans start copying that. So, we are requesting celebrities as well as general people not to promote or perform Kiki Challenge," a police official said.

A quick scroll through social media feeds will show some videos with #KikiChallenge hashtag where people step out of their cars and dance to the tunes of Canadian rapper Aubrey Drake Graham's track, called ‘In My Feelings’ from his latest album ‘Scorpion’ when the word 'Kiki' comes from the lyrics of the song: “Kiki, do you love me?”

Kiki dance challenge became a trend on social media after Instagram comedian Shiggy, who mainly generated the challenge, posted a video of him dancing in the middle of a street to the Kiki song on June 30.

"Performing Kiki dance challenge in the middle of roads may cause deadly mishaps as well as traffic disruption," a city traffic police officer said.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)