diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0955c19..306fa22 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ List:
 12. tables: generates mathematical tables
 13. generateAllPossibleWords.txt: A step by step tutorial of generating all possible strings from an imput string, this is a session stored from the IDLE
 14. builtinFunctions.py: demo of major builtin functions that are used all the time
+15. video.py: takes a path of the folder where there are videos and stores the path in a file and will play a random video when you execute the file, it uses subprocess module to call vlc so you need to have vlc installed
diff --git a/video.py b/video.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6808fb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/video.py
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+import os
+import subprocess
+import random
+
+path=""
+video_list=[]
+
+def set_path():
+	if not os.path.exists("./path.txt"):
+		path = raw_input("Enter the path where videos are stored")
+		path=path.lstrip().rstrip()
+		if os.path.exists(path):
+			if path !="":
+				try:
+					f=open("./path.txt","w")
+				except(IOError):
+					print "Something is wrong with the file"
+					exit()
+				finally:
+					print "file created on this path: "+path
+				f.write(path)
+				f.write("\n")
+				f.close()
+		else:
+			print "That path is invalid"
+	else:
+		return
+
+def listing():	
+#this function invokes the vlc media player to actually play a video
+	try:
+		f = open("./path.txt")
+	except(IOError):
+		print "Path invalid, please try again"
+		exit()
+	
+	path = f.readline()
+	f.close()
+	
+	path=path.lstrip().rstrip()
+	video_list = os.listdir(path)
+	total_videos = len(video_list)
+	
+	if not os.path.exists("./list.txt"):
+		f=open("./list.txt","w")
+		num=random.randint(0,len(video_list)-1)
+		f.write("%s,"%(num))
+		f.close()
+	else:
+		f = open("./list.txt","r")
+		line = f.readline()
+		line = line.split(",")
+		num=0
+		if len(line)==total_videos: #when all the videos have been watched, truncate the file
+			print "all videos finished"
+			f=open("./list.txt","w")
+			f.close()
+		while True:
+			num=random.randint(0,len(video_list)-1)
+			if str(num) not in line:
+				break
+		f=open("./list.txt","a")
+		f.write("%s,"%(num))
+		print "written to file"
+		f.close()					
+
+	play(path, video_list, num)
+
+def play(path, video_list, num):
+	os.chdir(path)
+	subprocess.Popen(["vlc", video_list[num]])
+
+
+if __name__=="__main__":
+	set_path()
+	listing()