Did Lal Krishna Advani get emotional after watching ‘The Kashmir Files’? No, old video

Ashwini Mahajan, co-convenor of the RSS-affiliated Swadeshi Jagran Manch, recently shared a video claiming it shows Lal Krishna Advani seated inside a movie theatre to watch ‘The Kashmir Files’. (Archive link)

Sumit Sibhoji, a BJP leader from Aligarh, also shared the video and accompanying claim on Facebook. He wrote that the senior BJP leader began crying after watching the film.

In addition, Manish Grover and Rakesh Goyal of the BJP along with several others shared the video.

TV9 Kannada also aired the video on a broadcast about the movie.

Fact-check

We noticed that some users commented that the video was two years old when Lal Krishna Advani visited a movie theatre to watch the film ‘Shikara’.

We noticed that the Twitter handle of Vidhu Vinod Chopra had also tweeted the viral clip on February 7, 2020 where Advani was attending a special screening of ‘Shikara’. Vidhu Vinod Chopra is the director of the film and he can also be spotted in the video.

 

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On February 9, 2020, The Indian Express reported that Lal Krishna Advani got emotional after watching ‘Shikara’.

In sum, a two-year-old video of Lal Krishna Advani attending a screening of ‘Shikara’ was falsely circulated as his emotional response to Vivek Agnihotri’s ‘The Kashmir Files’.

The post Did Lal Krishna Advani get emotional after watching ‘The Kashmir Files’? No, old video appeared first on Alt News.

This content originally appeared on Alt News and was authored by Priyanka Jha.

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