'Village Food Factory': Meet Gopinath, who made his father a celebrity

Gopinath has created a YouTube food channel that today has over 1.78 million subscribers from across the world

A  family that eats together, stays together. A YouTuber from Tiruppur, a town near Coimbatore in western Tamil Nadu, has taken this age-old wisdom a step further by getting his family to also cook and film together. In the process, he has created a YouTube food channel that today has over 1.78 million subscribers from across the world and gets some 6,000 new visitors every day.

Village Food Factory — the channel — is the brainchild of A Gopinath, a 27-year-old from Salem who gave up a job at Infosys to chase a dream that was planted in his head