A video (here and here) of a woman applying shampoo on her head covered with a Hijab is doing its rounds on social media. It is claimed that this video is a Hair Shampoo ad made under the Islamic ‘Sharia Law.’ We fact-check this claim through this article.
Claim: Viral video is a shampoo ad film made under the rules of Sharia Law.
Fact: This clip is part of a parody video made by a media production company named ‘MTAS Production’ in Malaysia in 2017. It is a spoof of an old Sunsilk hair shampoo advertisement. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.
To check the veracity of the viral claim, we performed a keyword search online, which led us to the original full-length version of the same video clip uploaded on Facebook and YouTube by ‘MTAS Production’ in April 2017. The video’s title in Malay, the official language of Malaysia, translated into English, reads ‘Only 90s Kids Know These Kinds of Ads.’
After going through the Facebook and YouTube profiles of ‘MTAS Production,’ we learned that it is a ‘Broadcasting and Media production company’ that produces scripted videos and posts on its social media platforms.
A further search led us to a few news articles about this video from 2017. Back then, controversy surrounded this video due to people mistaking it for a real video, which in reality was a parody sketch.
According to a Malaysian news website, CIlisos, this video was made by ‘MTAS Production’ as a spoof/parody of an old Sunsilk Shampoo advertisement.
Reportedly, this video was made by the ‘MTAS-Mr The All Shared Production’ to promote a local Hijab brand named Escarves.
To sum up, this video of a girl applying shampoo on her hijab is a parody/skit, not a real advertisement made under the rules of the Sharia Law.
