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Fact-Check: Viral Video Showing Kajol Changing Clothes Is a Deepfake!

Kajol's face has been superimposed on a video of an English social media influencer.

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A video which purportedly shows Bollywood actor Kajol changing clothes has gone viral on social media platforms.

Kajol's face has been superimposed on a video of an English social media influencer.

An archive of this post can be seen here.

(Source: Instagram/Screenshot)

(Archives of more claims can be seen here, here, and here.)

Is it Kajol's video?: No. The video is a deepfake which uses English social media influencer's video and Kajol's face.

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How did we find out?: We noticed that towards the end of the video, the person's eyes appeared to glitch, indicating that the video was morphed.

Kajol's face has been superimposed on a video of an English social media influencer.

One eye appears to remain open and looking up, while the other looks down.

(Source: Facebook/Altered by The Quint)

  • Next, we divided the video into keyframes using InVID, a video verification tool, and ran reverse image searches on some of them.

  • This led us to an article by The Sun, which carried a similar visual in an article about fashionable mid-sized outfits.

Kajol's face has been superimposed on a video of an English social media influencer.

We came across a similar visual of a woman in a yellow dress in this article.

(Source: The Sun/Screenshot)

  • This article carried a screenshot from the viral video, identifying the woman as TikTok user from the UK.

  • Here, we saw that the in had shared the viral clip as part of a video about affordable summer dresses on 5 June.

Kajol's face has been superimposed on a video of an English social media influencer.

The influencer, Rosie Breen, shared her video on 5 June.

(Source: TikTok/Screenshot)

  • On comparing this clip to the viral video, we noticed similarities.

Conclusion: A video of English social media influencer has been altered to superimpose Bollywood actor Kajol's face on the influencer's body, which has gone viral.

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