The viral video of the Varanasi Dev Deepavali flight announcement was created by a digital content creator and is not a real incident
A video circulating on social media (here, here, and here) claims to show an aerial view of fireworks in Varanasi during Dev Deepavali, accompanied by an alleged audio clip of a pilot’s in-flight announcement. The post also alleges that this is a real flight announcement made on the occasion of Karthika Purnima. Let’s verify the claim made in the post in this article.
Claim: The video shows a real flight announcement made to highlight the significance of Varanasi’s Dev Deepavali on the occasion of Karthika Purnima.
Fact: The video does not feature a real flight announcement. The aerial visuals of Varanasi’s Dev Deepavali were originally captured by Hyderabad–based digital content creator and photographer Anvesh Patel using a drone and posted on his Instagram handle on 03 November 2025. He frequently shares similar aerial footage paired with pilot audio. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
A reverse image search of the keyframes from the viral video led us to the original video posted on the Instagram handle @anveshgraphy on 03 November 2025. The post description revealed that the aerial shots of Varanasi’s Dev Deepavali were captured by photographer Anvesh Patel himself using a drone. This confirms that the viral video is not a real flight announcement and was created by a digital content creator.
We learned that he is a digital content creator (photographer and videographer) from Hyderabad, Telangana, who frequently posts (here, here, here, here, and here) aerial view videos paired with audio recordings of a flight pilot.
Factly previously debunked a video made by Anvesh Patel when it went viral, with the claim that it showed a real international flight announcement for the 2025 Prayagraj Maha Kumbh.
To sum up, the viral video of the Varanasi Dev Deepavali flight announcement was created by a digital content creator and is not a real incident.