A video of a giant cake, shaped in the form of a castle was seen being shared on social media platforms. It was claimed along with the post that the biggest wedding cake was a part of the pre-wedding celebrations of Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani in Jamnagar. However, the claim was found to be false. This cake was not cut during the pre-wedding festivities held for Mukesh Ambani’s youngest son.
Claim:
X user Abhishek Ranjan shared the video on his profile.
Check the archive version of the post here.
Other users too are sharing the video with the same claim.
Investigation:
We started the investigation by running a reverse image search on the keyframes from the video.
We found the video uploaded on an Instagram page titled: spotlightalert.
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The video was posted on the page in November 2023, before the pre-wedding festivities in Jamnagar.
We also found a news report on the website of news18.com.
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The Instagram page of unilad had posted the video of the cake along with the details of its architecture on October 30, 2023.
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The video of the same was also uploaded on reddit.com on 4 June, 2023.
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On one of the Facebook reels of the same video, a user pointed out that the wedding cake was from either Turkmenistan or Uzbekistan.
We also checked for reports about a wedding cake at the Ambani pre-wedding celebrations, however we could not find any news reports about the same.
Conclusion: Video of a giant cake shaped like a castle not from the pre-wedding celebration of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant. Viral claim is false.