Lighthouse Journalism came across a video of Kangana Ranaut being widely shared on social media platforms. Recently, on June 6, CISF constable Kulwinder Kaur slapped the actor turned BJP MP Kangana Ranaut at Chandigarh airport, a video has emerged after that, where Kanagana Ranaut is being seen escorted by security amidst media presence and a journalist in the background is heard asking, which was the cheek on which she was slapped. During the investigation we found the viral video to be edited. The video did not have the widely shared audio.
Claim:
X user Anand Yadav (Advocate) shared the viral video on his profile.
Check the archive version of the post.
Other users too are sharing the viral video.
Investigation:
We started the investigation by uploading the video in the InVid tool and obtaining several keyframes from the same. We then ran a reverse image search on the keyframes.
Through reverse image search we found the video uploaded on Instagram handle, ‘bollywoodshaadis‘.
No reporter in the video asked which cheek was slapped.
We also saw a PTI mic in the video, hence we searched the PTI social media handles. We then found a video taken from a different angle. The video was taken at the Delhi airport.
In this video too we could not hear the viral audio of any reporter asking the inappropriate question.
We also found the video uploaded on the ANI’s X handle.
There too we could not find the audio of any reporter asking any inappropriate question. The only question reporters asked was, ‘What happened?’
Conclusion: Viral video where a reporter is heard asking BJP MP Kangana Ranaut, ‘which cheek was slapped?’ is edited. Viral claim is fake.
