Fact Check: Know the reality of the viral video that turned into mourning for a birthday

A video is becoming massively viral on social media. which is associated with a birthday celebration. Some friends celebrate their friend’s birthday on a deserted road in the middle of the night. During this, he puts a cake on her face and fights in a joking manner. But suddenly the young man dies.

This video is being shared on social media with the claim that this absurd way is how birthdays are celebrated today.

Fact Check

On checking the above video, we found that this video was made for educational purpose. We found the video on the official Facebook account of Hamsa Nandini. Hansa Nandini is a South Indian actress, who keeps sharing videos related to educational purposes on her Facebook account.

While sharing this video, she wrote, “Don’t celebrate like this ️❤️?…… Thanks for watching! Please note that this page also contains scripted dramas and parodies. These short films are for educational purposes only!”

Therefore, this video is false and misleading.

DFRAC Editor

Digital Forensics, Research and Analytics Centre (DFRAC) is a non-partisan and independent media organisation which focuses on fact-checking and identifying hate speech. With the popularisation of the internet came the challenge of information overload and often times, our feeds are overpopulated with conflicting, incendiary and false information which is increasingly becoming difficult to ignore and not believe in

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