On September 14, Congress leader and former actress Nagma tweeted a video and wrote, “A BJP top leader’s son auditioning for Dance India Dance (Noida edition) created a disgusting & shameless scene along with his father & other goons. Welcome to the real India. Jai Ho. BJP’s dominance is the norm in UP.” She has since deleted this tweet but and archived link can be accessed here.
Many users shared this clip with the same claim on Facebook.
A BJP top leader’s son auditioning for Dance India Dance (Noida edition) created a disgusting & shameless scene along with his father & other goons. Welcome to “REAL” India ! Jai Ho. 😱😆👎🏼
Posted by Casper Tariang on Wednesday, 9 September 2020
Twitter user @MODIJI_helpus tweeted the clip, writing, “Look at this powerful Noida builder’s son openly bullying the judges on Zee TV’s Dance India Dance show.”
Fact-check
The video in question was part of a prank on an episode of ‘Dance India Dance’ reality show. We found fact-check reports on the video by BOOM and The Quint from September 10–11. The clip has been taken from a Season 5 episode of the show. Recently, some Facebook pages posted the viral clip writing that it was a prank. The post below is from August 22, 2020. Another page had shared this video on August 20. It is about 7 minutes long while the clip that has gone viral currently is about 5 minutes.
Contestant Fight With Master Punit
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The first episode of Season 5 of ‘Dance India Dance’ premiered on June 27, 2015. The original episode is over an hour long. We have inserted some screenshots below of what happens right after the 46-minute mark. Here, Master Punit Pathak explains to the audience that this was all a prank. The screenshots were taken from ZEE5, a subscription-based streaming site and app.
Thus a staged video was shared as BJP leader’s son threatening judges on ‘Dance India Dance’.
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