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India Today Fact Check found that this video has been online since as early as June 2023 and predates Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant's pre-wedding celebrations.
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India Today Fact Check
This video has been online since as early as June 2023 and predates Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding festivities.
In Short
- Video of cake claimed to be from Anant Ambani, Radhika Merchant's pre-wedding event
- Video predates event, dates back on internet to June 2023
- Cake reportedly from wedding in Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan
Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s three-day pre-wedding celebrations in Jamnagar, Gujarat, ended on March 3. The event’s extensive menu was crafted by top chefs and featured more than 2,500 dishes including Thai, Japanese, Mexican, Parsi, and pan Asian cuisines.
As videos and photos from the mega event flooded social media, one particular clip of a gigantic multi-tiered cake caught the attention of more than eight lakh people. Allegedly, this cake too was part of the extravaganza.
India Today Fact Check found that this has been on the internet since as early as June 2023 and therefore predates Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding celebrations.
OUR PROBE
We performed a reverse search on screengrabs of the viral video. This led us to the same video uploaded on October 30, 2023, to the official Instagram account of UNILAD, a British Internet media company. The post read: “Looks like something from Hogwarts.” The video was credited to TikTok user @fill220812â .
We found that this video was uploaded to the same TikTok account on October 21, 2023, and had been viewed over ten million times at the time of writing this.
We searched for media reports that covered this occasion and found many reports published in October 2023 about the castle-themed cake. As per News18, “The multi-tiered cake was designed to replicate the iconic castle from JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series.”
We also found a similar video of a gigantic cake, whose design matched the viral clip’s cake, uploaded to Reddit on June 4, 2023.
Additionally, in a 2023 Facebook post containing the viral clip, we found that many people in the comments pointed out that this wedding was from Uzbekistan. However, some also claimed it was from Turkmenistan. In fact, we found several Turkmen Instagram accounts that also shared similar videos of the same cake and wedding in 2023.
Finally, India Today’s entertainment journalist Tushar Joshi confirmed that no such giant cake was served at the Ambani pre-wedding event.
So, while India Today could not independently verify the actual location of the viral video, it’s more than clear that it predates Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding celebrations.
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