Ranjeet

Origin
"Ranjeet" is a Jitushmann AU which was born of a slightly pathetically desperate, content-starved fandom, that came to be quite popular as a secondary ship amongst the fans. It refers to the pairing of Ayan Ranjan, Ayushmann Khurrana's character in Article 15, and Jeetu Bhaiya, Jitendra Kumar's character in Kota Factory.

Origins of this particular pairing date all the way back to february 27th, 2020, when twitter user @debalina_11 posted this tweet. The idea for this ship can be attributed to her (god bless your mind, Debs). She then went on to make this twitter thread about a hypothetical situation between the two characters.

However, the ship did not seem to catch attention until months later.

Name
The ship name began with the term "Ayanjeetu," and was simultaneously referred to (for a short while) as "Sweater husbands," a term coined by @legendarilymessedup.

The final name, which we all know and recognise this ship by today, was brainstormed by @nocontextsmzs. The former part of the name, "Ranj," comes from "Ayan RANJan" and the latter comes from "JEETu"

yes, that's the same woman who's often seen yelling RANJEET SUPREMACY.

The Take Off
SS ranjeet left the harbour only on september 8th 2020, when this ranjeet meme was posted by @smzsmemes. Subsequent posts were made by @nocontextsmzs and @samosaoncrack. The last one simply never stopped posting

Ranjeet also gained traction with this twitter thread by @ayanjeetu on twitter, which then went on to become a full fledged fanfic.

Notable Occurrences
This post, and this sketch by @meri_jaan_ayushmann were acknowledged by Jitendra Kumar on november 19th 2020 and december 19th 2020 respectively.

This post was acknowledged by Maanvi Gagroo, Pankhuri Awasthy, Sunita Rajwar and Hitesh Kewalya.

"Ranjeet" was added to the urban dictionary, on november 23rd 2020, and soon after became top definition under the name. This was seen by Hitesh.

Edits:

 * Old Town Road edit
 * Intezari edit
 * Can't help Falling in Love edit
 * Ranjeet Fanart
 * More Ranjeet edit (by @nocontextsmzs)
 * Ranjeet edit again (by @shubhmangalzyadasavdhan)
 * + more edits have been made.

Fanfiction:

 * You Show Me The Stars -Selenophile Forever (this was also the first ranjeet fanfiction to be written)
 * Guns and Roses -Enigma3000
 * Blood and Tears -Selenophile Forever
 * Ayanjeetu -(first drafts of "Guns and Roses" on twitter)

Instagram user @ayushmann_simp_club has drawn many sketches of the pair. Instagram page @ranjeet.memes posts, you guessed it, Ranjeet memes.