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Fact CrescendoCulture & entertainment

Claim: safar shooting visual being misunderstood that sunny deol drunken

Publisher’s rating: ஃபேக்ட் கிரஸண்டோ ரேட்டிங்: FALSE

The review investigates a video circulated as showing actor Sunny Deol drunk and wandering on the road. It says the accompanying post also made claims about Deol’s family and Hema Malini. Readers sent the video to Fact Crescendo for verification. The review identifies the disputed footage as a nighttime shoot for the film Safar in Mumbai’s Juhu area, rather than evidence of Deol being drunk in public. To check the footage, the review says it found reporting about the controversy and examined a post on Deol’s official X account. It reports that Deol identified the scene as a shoot for his new film, Safar, and that the film’s producer also issued an explanation. The excerpt links to coverage by DNA India, The Times of India, NDTV and Bollywood Hungama, but does not reproduce those reports or the producer’s full statement. The key omitted context in the viral framing is that the clip came from a film set. The review concludes that a nighttime filming scene in Juhu was presented as Deol wandering around drunk. Its account supports that conclusion through the reported statement from Deol and the producer’s clarification; the supplied excerpt does not provide further details about the filming or independently describe how the video was authenticated.

Boatos.orgCulture & entertainment

A Miss Colômbia armou um escândalo e em lugar de pedir paz para o mundo desancou tudo e todos por causa da presença de “mulheres” com testículos e Maça de Adão no concurso de Miss Universo. Os eunucos que arranjem um concurso para eles… anormais e anti-natura e anti-Deus

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim says that a video shows Miss Colombia protesting the participation of trans women at the 2023 Miss Universe pageant. Boatos.org distinguishes the footage from that event: it says the video does show a Colombian contestant expressing indignation, but that “não se trata de uma mulher que criticava uma transexual.” The review adds that Miss Universe 2023 had already taken place, included two trans contestants, and “não teve a tal confusão.” The review identifies the footage instead with the 2020 Miss Global pageant in Mexico. It reports that Colombian contestant Jesenia Orozco objected to what she described as fraud in the competition’s organization. The quoted remarks concern fairness, corruption, and respect for contestants—not the presence of a trans contestant. The review also says one grievance was that the eventual winner, Miss Czech Republic, had previously been eliminated, and that no winner was officially announced after the problems. Thus, the video’s real context does not support the claim’s explanation of Orozco’s outburst. Boatos.org concludes that the video was recorded in another context and had nothing to do with transphobia; its account attributes Orozco’s indignation to the pageant’s organization and alleged irregularities.