Who Is Dino James? The CID Rapper Going Viral

India Today

A viral CID meme brought back memories of his side-character days.

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00:00Do you know what this is doing?

00:02I have a lot of clothes on my bed

00:04and I was in CID

00:06and I have a lot of news here

00:08That's a guy who once played a side character in CID

00:16Now he brought back the OG CID team in his music video

00:19I called up Daya sir

00:20I didn't even know that I didn't even know why

00:22I didn't even know why

00:23Kerala office said that the CID cutting is here

00:26Then I had some idea that I was making a song here

00:29and I had mentioned the CID

00:30and they said

00:31We are doing a deal

00:32I have a lot of success

00:33because we have a lot of fun

00:35because we have a lot of fun

00:37Daya sir, Abhijit sir and Shivaji sir

00:40that they made this happen in such a humble way

00:42and politely made this happen

00:49But to understand how he got here

00:51you've got to rewind

00:52to a Malayali Catholic born in Madhya Pradesh

00:57following his guts all the way to Mumbai

00:59I remember one of my friend called me and he said that

01:02you know somebody's looking for a cop in one of the shows

01:09I was very young

01:10I was new to Bombay

01:11and I just wanted some money

01:15So eventually you know they auditioned me

01:17and they said that can you speak in Malayalam

01:20Action!

01:23There was a little Malayalam and Hindi mix

01:25that I knew

01:26and I said something

01:28and they said

01:29let's go

01:30let's go

01:31and they said

01:32Kerala

01:33And in the middle of it all

01:34Hip-hop wasn't the back-up

01:38It was the plan

01:39just waiting to be found

01:40My mentor always used to tell me

01:43that you will become a writer

01:48But one fine morning

01:50you know something happened

01:51I was sitting in the rock beach

01:54Dino first wrote a song just to vent

01:56convinced it would be his last

01:58but one track led to another

02:00each one ripped straight from his own life

02:03We were angry

02:05We were in pain

02:07That unfiltered storytelling

02:08soon put him in the mentor's seat

02:09on a wrapped reality show

02:11We will remember you

02:12and tell the whole story

02:13We will tell you

02:14We will tell you

02:15We will tell you

02:16We will tell you

02:17We will tell you

02:18We will tell you

02:19what comes after the struggle

02:20One of his fans dug up an old clip of him

02:22from CID

02:23and it went viral

02:24It was fun

02:25It was fun

02:26But still here

02:27Dino is reclaiming the stage

02:28that once barely noticed him

02:29I saw a meme from CID

02:33and he was running out

02:34that you know

02:35Velangan, Durga

02:37is my mother

02:38and I was in CID

02:40and it sounded very good

02:42and it sounded very interesting

02:49And with that

02:50you've heard the story

02:51of his full circle moment

02:52Thanks for watching him

02:53See me on more

02:54more of everything

02:59Thank you

03:00Thank you

03:01Thank you

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