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

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)"

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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