With a quip about the market's tumble here and a pun about the exit poll results there, social media memesters went into overdrive on the day of counting for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on Tuesday. Many netizens gave a comic tinge to the dramatic election results through memes based on popular TV show "Panchayat", and films like "Gangs of Wasseypur", "Hera Pheri", and "Chup Chup Ke" on X. As the initial trends belied the exit poll results, the Indian stock market tumbled, with both Sensex and Nifty taking a massive hit.
People found solace in sharing memes apt for the situation. While one X user RJDixita shared two chubby panda cubs tumbling down a grassy slope with a caption that read "Nifty-Sensex today!", another posted a screengrab from Shahid Kapoor-starrer "Chup Chup Ke", with a caption "Investors seeing their portfolio today be like". The meme by whoisut showed Om Puri, a businessman in that film, asking his accountant Shakti Kapoor - "35 lakh ka hamara investment hai, toh 36 lakh ka ghata kaise ho gaya?" (Our investment is of Rs 35 lakh, then how did we lose Rs 36 lakh?).
Some X users also took on TV news channels, which had telecast exit polls that largely fell far from their predictions. Qid_Memez wrote in a post, "Me on my way to find exit pollsters" with a screengrab from the popular gangster drama "Gangs of Wasseypur" in which Manoj Bajpayee's gun-totting Sardar Khan is going to attack a rival. In another meme, be_mewadi shared a clip from "Panchayat" in which t.