Video Showing Street Food Vendor Preparing Food in Unhygienic Manner Is Scripted

The original post on Facebook carried a disclaimer saying that the video was a scripted one.

A video showing a street food vendor eating pani puri out of his own stall, unhygienically is being shared on social media platforms.

• Those sharing have written to be careful of street food.

(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here.)

Is this true?: This video is scripted and not a real incident.

• It is shot by a Facebook page that makes scripted dramas and parodies.

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How did we find out?: We divided the video into multiple screenshots and ran a Google reverse image search on some of them.

• We came across the same video on Facebook by a user name ‘Sanjjanaa Galrani’

• It was uploaded on 25 June with the caption “Health is Wealth."

• However, we noticed a disclaimer under the video which stated that the video was a scripted drama. It also read that the profile does such style of videos including, parodies. Further, they wrote that the characters in the video were for educational and entertainment purposes.

• We went through the profile of this user and looked at the about section. It was listed under the ‘Actor’ category.

Same man in a different video: Upon looking further, we found that the same man in the viral video was present in another video of the user’s profile.

• We matched the two and found similarities.

• Additionally, Team WebQoof has previously debunked another video by the same user in 2021. You can read that story here.

• We have reached out to the Facebook user for their input and the story will be updated once the response comes.

Conclusion: A scripted video showing a vendor eating panipuri from his own stall unhygienically is being falsely shared as a real incident.

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