Old Video Of Ganpati Festivities Shared As Ram Navami Procession In Mumbai

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The video has been shared also shared on Facebook and Instagram reel claiming it to be a recent video from Mumbai.

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Fact Check

BOOM ran a reverse image search using key-frames of the video and found posts on Facebook and Twitter dated 5, August, 2020.

See the Tweet and Facebook post here.

We also ran a reverse image search on Yandex which lead us to a YouTube video, uploaded on January 2021. The caption of the video reads, "chinchpokhalicha chintamani | full crowded ram ji ki nikli sawari | lalbaughcharaja | Mumbai utsv"

Using the above text we searched for the video on Facebook and found the video was uploaded on April 2, 2020 on the official page of Chinchpoklicha Chintamani, a well known Ganesh Chaturthi pandal in Mumbai.

The caption of the post reads, "रामजीकी निकली सवारी Chinchpokli Sarvjanik Utsav Mandal, Mumbai (Estd. : 1920) Ramajiki Nikali Savari Chinchpoklicha Chintamani Visarjan Sohala Miravanuk"

The same video was also posted on verified Instagram account of Chinchpoklicha Chintamani.

BOOM also found a white piece of cloth is seen on the viral video and found the same Marathi text, 'Chintamani' in the logo of Chinchpoklicha Chintamani.

However, the video is likely to be from before 2020 as the Indian government announced country wide lockdown from March 25, 2020 to curb the spread of the SARS-COV2 virus. Mass gatherings were restricted in the city at the time.

BOOM reached out to Chinchpokli Sarvjanik Utsav Mandal, which has been organising the century old Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations there. An individual who did not want to be identified said the video was from before 2020 but was unable to tell us which year it was recorded in.

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