The video, called "It's Your Fault', by comedy group All India Backods, features Bollywood actress Kalki Koechlin and television host Juhi Pandey explaining why women must take the blame for the rising number of rapes in India.

It starts with Kalki Koechlin saying "Ladies, do you think rape is something men do out of a desire for control empowered by years of patriarchy? You've clearly been misled by the notion that women are people too, because let's face it ladies. Rape, It's your Fault."

And it continues: "Scientific studies suggest that women who wear skirts are the leading cause of rape. Do you know why? Because men have eyes."

The video targets other stereotypes and statements made by India’s political and community leaders over the past year, linking rape to everything from eating chowmein to using mobile phones.

Kalki Koechlin explains how a rape can be avoided - by calling your molestor "bhaiya" (brother) - referring to a comment made by a religious leader last year, who said that the Delhi gang rape victim should have called her attackers “brothers” to avoid being raped.

The video then takes a swipe at police with Koechlin saying: "If you are tired of being humiliated by rape, you can always go to the cops and be humiliated by them instead."

Mumbai's top policeman Satyapal Singh drew anger after an attack on a 22-year-old photographer last month, by suggesting that a "promiscuous culture" that allows kissing in public made the city less safe for women.

By Tuesday morning, the four-minute video had been viewed 950,500 times and received 4,500 comments, and one of the video’s creators told Al Jazeera that he’s getting requests to make a Hindi language version to reach a wider audience.

“The notion behind this video was pretty simple,” Gursimran Khamba, one of the co-founders of All India Backhod, explained in an interview with Al Jazeera.

“We wanted to attack patriarchy as it exists in India. It sort of comes out every time there is a sexual assault case or a rape case. The first thing that happens, instead of focusing on the crime and looking at the perpetrator, the default for some reason is that the burden is always put on the woman.”

The response was positive on Twitter as well.

Amazing video on #Rape and Victim Blaming. Brilliantly presented and acted and epically sarcastic. | It's Your Fault http://t.co/DSDcnt7VJB — 7ala Abdullah (@7allo) September 23, 2013

Someone was moved by it.