Amid the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections, a video of a huge public gathering is going viral on social media, allegedly claiming to show visuals of a recent Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) rally held at BKC in Mumbai during the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections (here, here, and here). The video shows drone footage of a large crowd, with people also seen standing on towers. Through this article, let’s fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video showing a recent Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) rally held at BKC in Mumbai during the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections.
Fact: This viral video shows visuals from the ‘Pushpa 2’ movie trailer launch event held at Gandhi Maidan, Patna, Bihar, on 17 November 2024. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
Upon carefully reviewing the viral posts featuring this video, we observed that in response to one of the posts on X (formerly Twitter), several social media users claimed that the video was related to the trailer launch event of the movie ‘Pushpa 2: The Rule’, held in Gandhi Maidan, Patna, Bihar (here, here).
Taking this as a cue, we conducted a relevant keyword search and found a post on the official Twitter account of All India Radio Patna Unit featuring the same viral video. This post also mentioned that the visuals were related to the trailer launch event of the movie Pushpa 2, held in Gandhi Maidan, Patna, Bihar. Furthermore, we found multiple posts on X (formerly Twitter) featuring the same viral video. These posts also mentioned that the video was related to the trailer launch event of Allu Arjun’s ‘Pushpa 2’ movie.
A subsequent search led us to the trailer launch event video, which was live streamed on the YouTube channel of ‘Mythri Movie Makers,’ the producers of “Pushpa 2: The Rule”. Upon comparing the viral video with visuals from this trailer launch event, it is clear that the viral video depicts scenes from the trailer launch event of Allu Arjun’s Pushpa 2 movie held in Patna, Bihar. A comparison between the viral video and the video posted on Mythri Movie Makers’ YouTube channel can be seen below.
According to news reports (here, here, and here), a massive crowd gathered at Gandhi Maidan in Patna, Bihar, on 17 November 2024 for the trailer launch event of ‘Pushpa 2: The Rule.’ The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) held multiple election meetings at BKC in Mumbai during the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections. Visuals related to these meetings can be seen here, here, and here. The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance was formed by non-NDA political parties in Maharashtra, including the Indian National Congress, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), and the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar).
To sum up, visuals from the ‘Pushpa 2’ movie trailer launch event held in Bihar are being falsely circulated as a Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) rally in Maharashtra.
