Video from Thallumaala promotional event in Kerala shared as the visuals of the crowd gathered for Laal Singh Chaddha screening at Lulu Mall in Lucknow - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
August 13, 2022
A video is being widely shared on social media claiming it as the visuals of hundreds of people who gathered for the Laal Singh Chaddha screening at the Lulu Mall in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video showing the crowd that gathered for the screening of Laal Singh Chaddha at the Lulu Mall in Lucknow.
Fact: The video shared in the post shows the visuals of the crowd that gathered at the HiLITE mall in Kozhikode for the promotional event of Thallumaala, a Malayalam movie starring Tovino Thomas and Kalyani Priyadarshan. The video is not from Lulu Mall in Lucknow and it has nothing to do with Aamir Khan’s recently released film Laal Singh Chaddha. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.
On reverse image search of the screenshots in the video, a video with similar visuals was found tweeted by a user named AB George on 11 August 2022. AB George tweeted the video describing it as the visuals of the crowd that gathered for the Thallumaala promotional event held at the HiLITE mall in Kozhikode, Kerala.
#Thallumaala promotion event Crowd from #HiLite mall Kozhikode 😳🔥
The event which was scheduled for yesterday cancelled due to the uncontrollable crowd!! #TovinoThomaspic.twitter.com/YdHGD4RS5O
When we searched for further sources, a video with similar visuals was found in an article published by the ‘NDTV’ on 11 August 2022. This article reported it as the crowd gathered at the HiLITE mall in Kozhikode to attend a promotional event of Thallumaala, a Malayalam film starring Tovino Thomas and Kalyani Priyadarshan. Reporting the complete details of this incident, ‘ANI’ published an article on 12 August 2022. Sharing a few pictures of people gathered for the Thallumaala promotional event at the HiLITE mall in Kozhikode, ‘ANI’ said, “The promotional event of an upcoming Malayalam movie titled, “Thallumaala” at HiLITE Mall in Kozhikode was cancelled following a mammoth crowd swamped the venue”.
Reporting the same, several other news websites have also published articles and videos. From all these pieces of evidence, it can be concluded that the video shared in the post shows the crowd gathered for the Thallumaala promotional event held at the HiLITE mall in Kozhikode, not from the Laal Singh Chaddha screening at Lulu Mall in Lucknow.
To sum it up, a video showing the crowd that gathered at the Thallumaala movie promotional event in Kozhikode linked to Aamir Khan’s recently released film Laal Singh Chaddha.