Sorti en juillet en Corée mais devenu réellement populaire à l'étranger début août, le clip du rappeur de 34 ans, dans lequel il mime une danse du cheval invisible, a fait le tour de la planète. Mis en ligne le 15 juillet dernier, Gangnam Style totalisait vendredi matin 1 000 382 639 connexions, selon le décompte de YouTube, confortant ainsi son avance sur le clip de Baby, du jeune Canadien Justin Bieber (813 378 917 connexions), qu'il avait devancé fin novembre. Le tube, au style volontairement outrancier et mettant en scène la désormais populaire danse du cheval, parodie la vie des riches oisifs d'un quartier chic de Séoul et se veut l'antithèse de la K-pop, la pop sud-coréenne connue pour ses boys bands lisses et ses ritournelles sentimentales. Il a été vu par de hauts dirigeants comme le président américain, Barack Obama, le secrétaire général des Nations unies et compatriote du rappeur, Ban Ki-moon, l'artiste dissident chinois Ai Weiwei ou encore le maire de Londres, Boris Johnson. Quant à Psy, de son vrai nom Park Jae-Sang, il a été décoré en novembre de l'une des plus prestigieuses récompenses sud-coréennes, l'ordre du mérite culturel Okgwan.

Plot : This is the story of two friends, Jerry alias Jignesh Patel (Akshay Kumar) and Nick Mathur (John Abraham), who live in London and who are hit hard by recession. Jerry does odd jobs for a living as he is an undergraduate but Nick has a white-collar job. However, both find themselves jobless due to the economic downturn. Jerry has a little, school-going nephew Veer (Master Virej Desai) to look after as the child has lost both his parents. Nick is to marry his girlfriend, Radhika Awasthi (Deepika Padukone), who dreams of a lovely wedding, a great honeymoon and a wonderful house to live in after marriage. Out of job, Jerry finds it difficult to even pay the school fees of his nephew because of which the government is on the verge of giving the custody of his nephew to a foster family. Nick fears, he won’t be able to fulfil the dreams of his to-be wife. It is to tide over the difficult times that Jerry and Nick turn to the oldest profession in the world. They become male escorts, fulfilling the costume fantasies of girls and ladies. Ironically, Jerry can’t ultimately prevent his nephew from being sent to a foster home; and Nick loses Radhika when she learns of what he has been up to while she is away in India. Frustrated, Nick blames Jerry for forcing him into the profession and asks him to move out of his house and life. Nick now tries hard to win Radhika back and help comes from the most unlikely source – Radhika’s father Suresh (Anupam Kher) who has come to London with her. Meanwhile, Jerry registers in college again to complete his graduation so that he can earn enough money to get his nephew back home. In college, Jerry meets Tanya Sharma (Chitrangada Singh) who used to be his over-sized classmate and is now a hot and a sexy professor in the same college. Sparks fly between Jerry and Tanya. To make Nick jealous, Radhika dates a man named Ajay (Omi Vaidya). Nick starts to pick on Ajay, often calling him Vijay. After some reconsideration, Radhika forgives Nick, but Nick rejects her. Meanwhile, Jerry graduates college and also wins Tanya's heart. Nick comes and apologizes to Jerry. All is forgiven when Nick and Jerry reconcile. Jerry then helps Radhika win back Nick. Nick then helps Jerry get a decent high paying job, Jerry decides to go to court and get back the custody of his nephew. Ajay turns out to be the lawyer against Jerry's case. He decides to get revenge on Nick for taking Radhika away from him by not letting Jerry win his case. Ajay tells the court about Jerry being a male escort and what a bad role model he would be towards his nephew. He then brings in 3 witnesses to testify against Jerry. He asks each of them if they had paid Jerry for sex; all but one say no. Ajay is on the verge of winning. But Jerry makes an inspiring speech to the judge. The case is in his favour and he ends up winning and gaining full custody of Veer. The recession ends and everyone is happily living their lives. Cast : Akshay Kumar as Jerry alias Jignesh Patel ( Rocco ) John Abraham as Nick Mathur ( Hunter ) Deepika Padukone as Radhika Awasthi Chitrangda Singh as Tanya Sharma Omi Vaidya as Ajay Sartaj Garewal as Menon Ashwin Mushran as Defence Lawyer Anupam Kher as Suresh Shraman Jain Satish Kaushik as Dillon Seth Sanjay Dutt as Boss of Jerry and Nick also gives them names as Rocco and Hunter respectively (owner of Desi Boyz)[7] Bruna Abdullah in a Special Appearance in song "Subha Hone Na De" Bharati Achrekar as Jignesh's Mom (uncredited)