New Delhi – The power of social media is immense, and the immediate attention garnered by the owner of a small kiosk named Kanta Prasad for his Baba Ka Dhaba is solid proof of that. After the moving video of the elderly coupe running a food kiosk in Delhi’s Malviya Nagar went viral, several celebrities and politicians came to his aid.
The old man broke into the video saying that due to the closing of the pandemic, his business is affected and he cannot make ends meet.
Now the good news is that after ‘Baba Ka Dhaba’ was trending all day on social media, food delivery giant Zomato listed it on its website for ordering. Yes! people can order Baba Ka Dhaba online now through Zomato.
UPDATE: baba ka dhaba now shows up on zomato and our team is working with the elderly couple there to enable food deliveries
thanks to the good internet folks for bringing this to our attention
– zomato india (@ZomatoIN) October 8, 2020
Additionally, Tinder is also asking couples to consider Baba Ka Dhaba as a likely date spot. Woohoo!
We recommend #BabaKaDhabha for your next appointment
– Tinder India (@Tinder_India) October 8, 2020
For the uninitiated, the video of the elderly couple was shared by Vasundhara Tankha Sharma on Twitter, after which many Bollywood celebrities, cricketers, and netizens flooded support for ‘Baba Ka Dhaba’.
Fortunately, after it became a huge trend on social media, a log queue was spotted outside ‘Baba Ka Dhaba’ and the elderly couple looked visibly happier.
Soon, Malviya Nagar’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Somnath Bharti visited Baba Ka Dhaba and secured help for the couple.
From Raveena Tandon, Randeep Hooda, Swara Bhasker to Nimrat Kaur, Gaurav Wasan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Sonam Kapoor, Suniel Shetty, and Athiya Shetty, they all stepped forward to provide help to the elderly couple.
In fact, Sonam Kapoor even asked for the couple’s details to offer help.
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