No, This Video Doesn’t Show Zakir Hussain Performing With Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

The man sitting next to the late singer is a Pakistani tabla player named Abdul Sattar Khan.

Fact-Check | The man on the left side is being misidentified as Ustad Zakir Hussain.

(Photo: Altered by The Quint)

A video of late Pakistani singer Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan singing next to a tabla player is being circulated on social media platforms with users identifying the latter as late tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain.

What have users said?: Those sharing the clip have put up a caption that said, "NFAK and Zakir Hussain. Just have a look on this insanity. He was the last of legends. (sic)"

An archive of the post can be found here.

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The above post had garnered over 1.8 lakh views on the platform. Archives of similar claims can be found here, here, and here.

Is the claim true?: No, the claim is false. The person sitting next to Khan is actually a Pakistani tabla player named Abdul Sattar Khan, also known as Ustad Tari Khan.

How did we find that out?: We performed a simple reverse image search on the keyframes of the video and found a longer version uploaded on an unverified YouTube handle.

• It was posted on 31 October with a caption that said, "Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Ustad Tari Khan Live In Washington DC and many more ......."

• At the beginning of the video, the late singer introduced the tabla player as Abdul Sattar Tari.

• One can find the portion seen in the viral clip in this YouTube clip at around the 4:42 timestamp.

• Taking this forward, we found another clip on YouTube that showed the performance of the late singer as well as Ustad Tari Khan from the same concert.

• It was uploaded on 23 July 2011 and its title said, "Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Ustad Tari Khan Live."

Conclusion: It is clear that the video doesn't show Ustad Zakir Hussain performing in a concert with the late Pakistani singer Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

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