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కాశ్మీర్ ఫైల్స్ సినిమా పూర్తిగా ఫేక్ అని, హిందూ మహిళ ఒక థియేటర్లో విలపిస్తున్న దృశ్యాలు
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Claim: javed beigh interview not telecasted in a pakistan tv channel
Publisher’s rating: PARTLY FALSE
The review investigated a social-media video of Javed Beigh discussing violence against Kashmiri Pandits. The accompanying post presented the footage as an interview on Pakistani television and included remarks in which Beigh apologized for the violence. The review identifies Beigh as the general secretary of the People’s Democratic Front (Secular) in Jammu and Kashmir, and says the footage came from an interview with ANN News Kashmir, a media outlet based in Kashmir—not a Pakistani channel. The review also reports that Beigh shared information about the interview on his Twitter account, describing his discussion of harm suffered by Kashmiri Pandits Girija and Bradari and the Sangrampora Beerwah massacre. Its conclusion is that the video was misrepresented as an appearance on Pakistani TV. Thus, the review supports the narrower assertion that the interview was not on a Pakistani channel, while disputing the broader social-media framing that it was a Pakistani-TV interview.
UNESCO declared Honnavar town sub-registrar officer’s signature as the most spectacular signature in the world
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a signature attributed to Honnavar sub-registrar Shanthayya in Karnataka: a social-media post said UNESCO had recognized it as the most spectacular signature in the world. FACTLY’s review distinguishes the signature itself from the alleged UNESCO recognition. It reports that the image showed Shanthayya’s signature, but says the recognition claim was unsupported: “The photo shared in the post shows the signature of Honnavar sub-registrar Shanthayya. But UNESCO did not recognise his signature as spectacular.” The review describes two checks for the alleged award. It says a search found that UNESCO had not given a recognition or award for the best signature, and that keyword searches on UNESCO’s website found no results relating to this signature. The article’s conclusion rests on the absence of such an award and of a UNESCO record connecting the signature to one: “as of now, UNESCO did not give any such recognition or award for best signature” and “We could not find any search results related to the Honnavar sub-registrar signature when we checked with keywords on the UNESCO website.” The review also traces the image’s earlier circulation and the signature’s reported purpose. Reverse-image searching found the same signature in social-media posts dating back to at least July 2018. The article says One India Kannada described it as an artistic signature Shanthayya created to make it distinctive and harder to forge, and had video showing him signing paper. That history supports the existence and authorship of the signature, not the claimed UNESCO award; the review concludes it “has nothing to do with UNESCO.”
ಕುತುಬ್ ಮಿನಾರ್ನ ಮೇಲೆ ರಷ್ಯಾದ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಧ್ವಜದ ಲೇಸರ್ ಬೆಳಕಿನ ದೀಪವನ್ನು ಬಣ್ಣಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಅಲಂಕರಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
ದಿ ಕಾಶ್ಮೀರ್ ಫೈಲ್ಸ್ ಸಿನಿಮಾ ಯುಪಿ ಸಿಎಂ ಯೋಗಿ ಆದಿತ್ಯನಾಥ್ ಕಣ್ಣೀರು ಹಾಕಿದ ಇತ್ತೀಚಿನ ವಿಡಿಯೋ.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Deleted scene from the movie ‘The Kashmir Files’
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a social-media video presented as a deleted scene from The Kashmir Files. FACTLY says the footage shows a man using a megaphone to make allegations against the Indian Army in Kashmir. Its investigation compared screenshots from the circulating video with online footage and found a similar, longer YouTube video uploaded on 3 September 2019. FACTLY also reports that the same video had been circulating on social media since at least 2019. The timing is central to the review’s conclusion. Vivek Agnihotri announced The Kashmir Files with a poster on 14 August 2019, but the film’s first shooting schedule was planned for the third week of March 2020 and was called off because of the COVID-19 pandemic. FACTLY says these details indicate that the circulating video was available before filming began. Thus, the footage’s documented earlier existence contradicts its presentation as a scene deleted from the film. The review establishes that the video was online before the reported start of filming; the excerpt does not provide independent production records or further details about how the video was made.
द कश्मीर फाइल्स देखकर रोते योगी आदित्यनाथ का वीडियो वायरल
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
हा व्हिडिओ व्हायरल करताना दावा केला जात आहे की, द काश्मीर फाइल्स चित्रपट पाहून योगी आदित्यनाथ रडले.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
आलिया भट्ट आणि रणबीर कपूर चे नुकतेच लग्न झाले आहे. अश्यातच सोशल मीडिया वर आलिया भट्ट चे एक चित्र व्हायरल होत आहे. चित्रात आलिया भट च्या हातावर मेहेंदी लागलेली दिसते. दावा करण्यात येत आहे कि हे चित्र त्यांच्या मेहेंदी च्या कार्यक्रमाचे आहे.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
La femme sur ces photos est une actrice et la maternité n'était plus en fonction.
Publisher’s rating: Ces affirmations sont fausses. Sur ces images, on distingue en fait deux femmes: une blogueuse ukrainienne et une autre personne. Elles étaient toutes les deux enceintes et se trouvaient bien sous les bombardements russes de la maternité de Marioupol. La seconde d'entre elles, portée sur un brancard, est décédée, ainsi que le bébé qu'elle portait.
Photo of Persian princess Qajar; 13 young men killed themselves because she rejected them
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The post attributes a photo to a single Persian princess called Qajar and says that 13 young men killed themselves after she rejected their proposals. FACTLY’s review examined that specific viral photo and claim. It reports that the image actually combines pictures of two different women from the Qajar dynasty, rather than showing one princess in both parts of the image. The review says reverse image searches indicated that the larger picture shows Princess Fatemeh Khanum, known as Ismat al-Dawlah (1855–1905), the second daughter of Nasar al-Din Shah Qajar. The smaller image at the bottom is identified as Princess Zahra Khanum, known as Taj al-Saltanah (1884–1936), his 12th daughter. The shared dynasty explains why both might be generically called “Princess Qajar,” but does not make them the same person. On the story about 13 deaths, FACTLY says it could find no evidence confirming that any of the women’s rejected proposals led 13 young men to kill themselves. Thus, the review challenges both the photo’s presentation as one person and the unsupported causal story attached to it.
Video of a Kashmiri Pandit woman slamming ‘The Kashmir Files’ movie for portraying fake propaganda to incite communal violence
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The post attributed a video of a Kashmiri Pandit woman criticizing a film to a screening of The Kashmir Files, and presented it as her objection to that film portraying false propaganda. The review says the footage instead shows her confronting director and producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra at a screening of Shikara. It reports that she accused him of commercialising the community’s suffering and of failing to depict its actual experiences, including genocide, mass rapes and mass murders attributed in the article to Islamic radical groups. (S1: “The video shared in the post shows a Kashmir Pandit woman lashing out at Bollywood Producer and Director Vidhu Vinod Chopra at the ‘Shikara’ movie screening held in February 2020. The woman accused the director of commercialising the Kashmiri Pandits’ plight and for not portraying the actual suffering of the community including the genocide, mass rapes and mass murders committed by Islamic radical groups.”) To check the video’s provenance, the review describes examining its watermark, which referred to a reaction to Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Shikara, and searching using those words. It says this led to a video with similar visuals posted by the Viral Bollywood YouTube channel on 7 February 2020, identified as showing a woman lashing out at Chopra at a Shikara screening. The review also reports that other entertainment channels posted the footage with similar descriptions that month. (S1: “On observing the post carefully, we could see a watermark on the video with the text, ‘Reaction to Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Shikara movie which secularised massacre of Kashmiri Pandits’. When we searched for this video using these keywords, a video with similar visuals was found published by the ‘Viral Bollywood’ entertainment YouTube channel on 07 February 2020.”) The review further cites reporting about the Shikara screening held on 7 February 2020: the woman broke down after watching the film and criticized Chopra for not depicting the community’s suffering. It says the two other images in the post, unlike the video, were from The Kashmir Files screenings. Thus, the post combined images related to The Kashmir Files with older footage from a different film’s screening, misattributing the woman’s remarks. (S1: “According to the article, at the special screening of ‘Shikara’ movie held on 07 February 2020, a Kashmiri Pandit woman broke down after watching the movie and lashed out at director Vidhu Vinod Chopra for not portraying the actual suffering of the Kashmiri Pandit community including the genocide, mass rapes and mass murders committed by Islamic radical groups.”; “The two other images shared in the post show recent pictures from the ‘The Kashmir Files’ screening.”)
Singing video of late singer S. P. Balasubrahmanyam’s grandson
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The post described in the review presents a live performance of “Malare Maunama” as singing by the grandson of late singer S. P. Balasubrahmanyam. FACTLY identifies the boy in that video as Aditya Suresh, a child singer from Kollam, Kerala, and says he is not Balasubrahmanyam’s grandson. The review also reports that Suresh had participated in musical shows in Kerala and elsewhere in India.
द कश्मीर फाइल्स मूवी देख कर रो पडे प्रधानमंत्री मोदी, मुख्यमंत्री आदित्यनाथ योगी।”
Publisher’s rating: False
Recent video of Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath breaking down into tears while watching ‘The Kashmir Files’ movie
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a video presented as recent footage of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath crying while watching ‘The Kashmir Files’. FACTLY identifies the footage instead as showing him getting emotional at a 2017 event honoring martyrs at Gorakhnath temple in Gorakhpur. Its account says the video “had nothing to do with ‘The Kashmir Files’ movie.” The review describes its checks: searching with keywords led to a video with similar visuals published by ABP News on 17 October 2017, which reported that Adityanath broke down during a martyrs’ event. Further searches found similar photos published by several news websites in October 2017. Those reports, as summarized by FACTLY, said he became emotional while listening to the song ‘Sandese Aate Haine’ at the ‘Ek Diya Shaheed Ke Naam’ event. The review also notes that the Uttar Pradesh government had granted tax-free status to ‘The Kashmir Files’, but says there was no reporting that Adityanath had watched the film and become emotional. The evidence presented therefore identifies the video with an earlier, unrelated event rather than the movie-watching scene asserted in the post.
പ്രധാനമന്ത്രി മോദി The Kashmir Files സിനിമ കാണുന്നു: വീഡിയോ
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
ദി കാശ്മീര് ഫയല്സ് (The Kashmir Files) കാണുന്നത്തിനിടെ യോഗി ആദിത്യനാഥ് കരയുന്നു
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
