IIT Roorkee students’ video tribute to singer Ed Sheeran goes viral

engineering students of the IIT Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, have become a rage on the internet, with their music video on singer and songwriter Ed Sheeran’s chartbuster — Shape of You.

The random video has created a history of sorts with over 2.8 million views in just six days after it was posted on YouTube on February 13.

The engineers have broken their stereotype ‘bookworm’ image by their creativity. The video shows four boys trying to impress a girl on Valentine’s Day. The students are associated with the institute’s cinematic section.

Sambhav Jain, one of the quartet in the video, is happy at the success but is not sure whether he and his friends are looking at making music a career option.

“Well, we’ve not really given this a deep thought yet as it has been only a few days now and the response we’ve received has been kind of unexpected for us” Sambhav told HT on Saturday.

The team dedicated the success of the video to their beloved singer Ed Sheeran, whose birthday was on February 17. Meanwhile, social media users praised the students for their creativity. “Everyone here is falling for your creativity in Dy Patil Medical College Pune ..... (sic)” posted Chaitanya Shende for director Ankush Raut from Nagpur.