6 Pack Band has managed to breathe new life into a song that saturated U.S. airwaves throughout 2015 by offering up a message of solidarity and hope to India’s “hijra” community.
In addition to being impossibly catchy, the song “celebrates togetherness by depicting a more welcoming world” by raising awareness for India’s transgender community, Y-Films, which released the video, states.
Y-Films deems 6 Pack Band India’s “first transgender band” and says the singers hail “from India’s ‘Hijra’ community.” As famous Indian actress Anushka Sharma says in a voiceover at the beginning of the video, the centuries-old hijras are “the third gender, ignored by most, tolerated by some, misunderstood by all.”
Y-Films, the youth wing of Yash Raj Films, also writes on YouTube that the band was created “to help further the cause of gender equality in India.”
The band released their second video on 25th January.' Inspired by a beautiful Guru Granth Sahib couplet, ‘Sab Rab De Bande’ gives the heartwarming message that in the eyes of the Almighty, we are all equal; that there is no barrier of caste, creed, community or gender; and humanity is the one religion all his children should practice.
And, just so you know, the global response to these videos has been pretty huge and overwhelmingly positive — and it’s really easy to see why.