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The Social media Sensation: Vishesh Khanna

Vishesh Khanna is a sportsman who loves to play cricket and ping pong. It has been years that he has been playing corporate cricket. After a while, Vishesh Khanna started posting short clips of his corporate matches, tricks and tips to play ping pong better, some training videos and much more.

More about Vishesh Khanna

Vishesh Khanna is a family man who received the Media Star of the Week award on October 25. The 40-year old Delhiite works as assistant vice-president of Genpact in Bengaluru, plays corporate cricket often, and shares tricks that can help you play ping-pong better. Recently, he posted the candle flame trick using a table tennis bat and ball, which was one of the most viewed and loved videos of his channel.

His candle flame trick’s video registered a significant increase in viewership. The total number of views on his channel shot up from 50K to several lakhs to millions in no time. The video got so viral that his followers count increased from 600 to 20.2k as well.

The bottle cap challenge

All of this started with an idea. Vishesh Khanna saw the viral bottle cap challenge where people removed the closed cap with their foot. Vishesh took things a bit further. He decided to not use his foot, rather do the same challenge using a cricket ball and bat.

How all of this started ?

But even after doing this trick successfully he wasn’t satisfied. Vishesh wanted to take it one step ahead of what people were doing. As a result, he decided to switch the bottle with a candle and cricket ball and a ball with a table tennis bat and ball. The hunger to achieve something better and show people his talent was something that Vishesh always had in his mind. He started playing cricket when he was 8 years old. He was initially a gully cricket player, then played various games at Raja Park in Delhi. His love for cricket was strong which is why he did some training under Mr. Sanjay Bhardawaj and Mr. AN Sharma who is also the cricket coach of Virender Sehwag. He also represented Ram Lal Anand College during his college days.

The next step

Vishesh Khanna had an interview with various newspapers where he confirmed that he was happy to see that people liked his work. He is still figuring out a way to monetize his Instagram and other channels. After getting recognition as a social media star of the week; many recognized social media influencers approached him for collaboration. As of now Vishesh is only a solo creator but looking for a way to make things big after getting the boost. He also mentions it everywhere that his supportive family makes a lot of difference in his life. They have constantly supported him whenever he tried something new.

You can follow Vishesh Khanna on Instagram and YouTube. There are several tutorial videos, tricks, and tips of various games that can make you better. His candle flame trick got a lot of traction and made him a social media sensation.