The 72nd edition of the Miss World 2025 beauty contest is currently underway in Telangana, with Nandini Gupta representing India in the competition (here, here, and here). Amidst this, a video featuring Nandini Gupta is circulating on social media with the claim that she has been announced as the winner of Miss World 2025. We have also received the same video on our WhatsApp Tipline (+91 92470 52470), with users enquiring about its authenticity. Let’s verify the claim made in the post through this article.
Claim: The video shows that Nandini Gupta has been declared the winner of Miss World 2025.
Fact: The viral video is from April 2023, showing Nandini Gupta being crowned Femina Miss India World 2023. Nandini Gupta has not been declared the winner of Miss World 2025 yet. The Miss World 2025 contest is still ongoing, with the grand finale scheduled for 31 May 2025. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
To verify the claim, we conducted a Google keyword search and found (here, here) that the 72nd edition of the Miss World beauty contest is currently underway in Telangana and has not yet concluded. The grand finale is scheduled to take place on 31 May 2025. This raised suspicion that the viral video might be old and related to a different event.
We then performed a reverse image search of keyframes from the viral video led us to an extended version of the same video, uploaded on the YouTube channel Beauty Pageants on 29 May 2023. This confirms that the video predates the Miss World 2025 contest. The video, titled Watch the Grand Finale of Femina Miss India 2023, features a grand celebration marking the conclusion of a prestigious beauty contest. During this event, Nandini Gupta was announced as the winner of Femina Miss India 2023.
We also found an Instagram post featuring the same visuals, uploaded on Nandini Gupta’s official Instagram handle on 17 April 2023, after winning the Femina Miss India 2023 title. Several other related posts from the same event can also be found here, here.
Nandini Gupta from Rajasthan was crowned Femina Miss India World 2023 in a grand ceremony held on 15 April 2023. The 19-year-old hails from Kota, Rajasthan. Along with her, Shreya Poonja from Delhi was declared the first runner-up, while Thounaojam Strela Luwang from Manipur secured the second runner-up position (here, here).
To sum up, Nandini Gupta has not been declared the winner of Miss World 2025, as the grand finale is scheduled for 31 May 2025, the viral video shows her being crowned Femina Miss India 2023.
