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| - Fact Check: No, Anant Ambani didn't refuse to get clicked with Aamir after Laal Singh Chadhha failed at box office
The film was produced by Mukesh Ambani-owned Viacom18 Studios. Some social media users linked Anant Ambanis' dodging paparazzi to Laal Singh Chadhha's terrible performance.
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India Today Fact Check
The viral video has nothing to do with the poor performance of Laal Singh Chaddha and has been on the internet since 2019.
In contrast to multiple Academy Award-winner Forrest Gump, its Indian adaption Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha failed terribly at the box office and received mixed responses, mostly ranging from negative to average. The movie was supposed to be released on OTT platforms six months after its theatrical release but was quietly dropped on Netflix four months before its expected release. Many attributed the film's grim performance to the backlash and trolling it was subjected to by the right-wing and Hindu nationalist groups.
The film was produced by Paramount Pictures, Aamir Khan Productions and Viacom18 Studios, a subsidiary of Viacom18 Media Private Limited owned by Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Limited.
Meanwhile, a video is making rounds on social media where Anant Ambani is supposedly seen avoiding getting clicked with Aamir Khan, Mukesh Ambani and Uddhav Thackeray.
Sharing the video, many social media users alleged that Ambani refused to get clicked with Khan owing to Laal Singh Chadda’s box office failure.
A Twitter user wrote, “Anant Ambani is very angry with Aamir Khan for looting them with super flop film Laal Singh Chaddha! Therefore he refused to click a photo with Aamir”. The archived version of this post can be seen here.
India Today found that the viral video was shot in 2019, almost four years before Laal Singh Chaddha was released.
Our Probe
We ran a reverse search of the viral video and found a longer version of this video on YouTube. The video uploaded on September 3, 2019, has been watched over 11 thousand times. The viral clip of the video can be seen at 37 seconds mark, the moment when Anant Ambani avoided having photos taken by paparazzi.
In the later part of the video, Anant can be seen greeting Aamir rather gleefully.
Taking a clue from this, we further for the video on the internet using keywords. The search resulted in a few media reports on Ambani’s Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in 2019. Many Bollywood stars, including Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif, Karisma Kapoor, and Madhuri Dixit marked their attendance at the event.
According to reports, on September 2, 2019, Nita and Mukesh Ambani hosted a get-together at their Mumbai home, Antilia, to celebrate the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi.
Khan can be seen wearing the same outfit in the photos contained in these news reports.
To conclude, the viral video was shot almost four years even before Laal Singh Chaddha saw its theatrical release.
(Written by Ashish Kumar)
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