India’s Got Latent Season 2 premiered on June 20, streaming simultaneously on Netflix and YouTube, with Samay Raina joined on the judging panel by Alpha stars Alia Bhatt and Sharvari. During the premiere, contestant Balram Vishwakarma, better known as Rocking Goli, performed the now-viral track Chai Ki Tapri. Young AJ and Rocking Goli performed it on the show.
Alia Bhatt and Sharvari Chai Ki Tapri dance
Clips of Alia Bhatt and Sharvari dancing to Chai Ki Tapri during the episode went viral across Instagram and YouTube Shorts, helping the song reach a huge audience. It has since crossed a whopping 500 million cumulative streams and has been used in more than a million Instagram Reels. Rocking Goli’s popularity has also soared, with the performer
joining DJ Chetas’ 14-city Chandni Bar Tour 2.0.
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AI behind the viral song from Samay Raina’s Latent 2
Chai Ki Tapri was created using Soundverse, an AI music creation platform co-founded by Sourabh Pateriya, Riley Williams and Ash Pournouri, who worked closely with the late Avicii early in his career. According to Pateriya, the track was created by Utkarsh, a Nagpur-based user of the platform, who wanted to make a fun, Bollywood-style song inspired by a roadside tea stall.
The runaway success came as a surprise not only to listeners but also to the company whose AI technology helped create it. Speaking to Hindustan Times, Soundverse AI co-founder Sourabh Pateriya revealed, “I had no idea that Kush used Soundverse to generate it.”
He added, “I got a text from a friend of mine saying, ‘Hey, I feel this song could be AI, and it’s worth checking if it’s made in Soundverse.’ I saw the episode, heard the song—it’s a really fun track. It definitely caught me off guard.”
The Soundverse team then checked its internal records and confirmed that the song had been created on the platform in mid-May. For Pateriya, the bigger surprise wasn’t just the song’s massive reach, but the fact that most listeners never realised it had been generated using AI. Many even believed it had been sung by a human artiste named AJ.
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Samay Raina vibes to Chai Ki Tapri
The song’s popularity boosted after Sharvari shared herself vibing to it on social media and tagged Samay Raina with the caption, “iykyk”. Netflix India also joined the trend by posting a clip featuring the track on Instagram. Even Samay Raina was seen vibing to the song in a video that went viral online.
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