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  • 2022-08-19 (xsd:date)
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  • Photo does not show low turnout at Indian actor's film premiere amid boycott calls (en)
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  • After right-wing Hindu groups in India called to boycott Bollywood star Aamir Khan's latest movie over comments he made about the treatment of Muslims in the country, a photo was shared thousands of times in Facebook posts claiming it shows a poor turnout at the film's premiere. However, the photo was taken at a press conference for the movie Laal Singh Chaddha, not the premiere. Despite protests in some Indian cities, various Indian celebrities were pictured attending multiple premieres for the movie across the country. At the invitation of Aamir Khan to the premiere of Laal Singh Chaddha, the cinema hall remained empty even as Aamir Khan himself was present there, reads a Hindi-language Facebook post from August 9. We were boycotting the film, the premiere proved to be a flop, it adds. The post, shared more than 11,000 times, shows Khan sitting in a movie theatre with co-stars from the movie, a Hindi-language remake of the 1994 Hollywood hit Forrest Gump. Several seats behind the actor are unoccupied. Screenshot of the false post, taken on August 12, 2022. Right-wing Hindu groups called for a boycott of the movie over comments Khan made in 2015 about the treatment of Muslims in Hindu majority India. The Muslim actor told an awards ceremony that he and his then-wife talked about moving abroad. She fears for her child. She fears about what the atmosphere around us will be. She feels scared to open the newspapers every day, he said. More than 200,000 tweets with the hashtag #BoycottLaalSinghChaddha have been shared since July, many from supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). However, the photo, which circulated on Facebook and Twitter , was not taken at the movie premiere. Press conference A reverse image search on Google found the photo posted on Facebook on August 7, three days before the film's official release. The Facebook post says the picture was taken at a press meeting in Chennai in southern India, which was attended by other stars from the film. The caption reads in Hindi: Akkineni Naga Chaitanya Udhayanidhi Stalin #MonaSingh and #AamirKhan on stage at the #LaalSinghChaddha Chennai press meet. 3 Days To Go. Below is a screenshot comparison of the image in the false post (left) and the image shared by the Team Aamir Khan Facebook page (right): The press conference was covered in various media reports from August 7, including by NT News , ABP Live and Chennai Vision . The reports show Khan and his co-stars attending the press conference wearing the same clothes as in the photo shared in false posts. Despite protests against screenings in some cities, local media reported that premieres for Laal Singh Chaddha in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Jalandhar were attended by various Indian celebrities. Social media posts by reporters from the premiere in Mumbai show celebrities lining up for photos at the red carpet event. Voir cette publication sur Instagram Une publication partagĂ©e par @varindertchawla (en)
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