{"id":171048,"date":"2023-11-21T17:48:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T12:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=171048"},"modified":"2023-11-21T17:48:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T12:18:12","slug":"edited-video-shared-as-crowd-chants-hanuman-chalisa-during-2023-cricket-world-cup-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/edited-video-shared-as-crowd-chants-hanuman-chalisa-during-2023-cricket-world-cup-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowd chanted Hanuman Chalisa at World Cup final? No, doctored video viral; false report by Zee, ABP, OpIndia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">India on November 19 played Australia in the Final of the ICC men\u2019s cricket World Cup 2023 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Following this, a video in which spectators at the packed stadium are heard chanting the Hanuman Chalisa in unison was shared widely on social media. Several media outlets picked up the clip and claimed that lakhs of spectators were heard chanting the Hanuman Chalisa at the Narendra Modi Stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RSS mouthpiece Panchjanya tweeted the video with the same claim: Hanuman Chalisa being recited at the Narendra Modi Stadium during the finals match of the cricket World Cup. (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/4pOgI\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Archived link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\u092b\u093e\u0907\u0928\u0932 \u092e\u0948\u091a \u0915\u0947 \u092c\u0940\u091a \u0928\u0930\u0947\u0902\u0926\u094d\u0930 \u092e\u094b\u0926\u0940 \u0938\u094d\u091f\u0947\u0921\u093f\u092f\u092e \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0939\u0928\u0941\u092e\u093e\u0928 \u091a\u093e\u0932\u0940\u0938\u093e \u0915\u093e \u092a\u093e\u0920\u0964<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvsAUSfinal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INDvsAUSfinal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IJoMJJbL3z\">pic.twitter.com\/IJoMJJbL3z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Panchjanya (@epanchjanya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/epanchjanya\/status\/1726236101776662811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zee News carried this video in an article and claimed that before the start of the match, Indian cricket fans at the stadium had chanted the Hanuman Chalisa in unison. (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Fxam3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Archived link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-171067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/zee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1526\" height=\"1506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/zee.jpg 1526w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/zee-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/zee-1024x1011.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/zee-768x758.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1526px) 100vw, 1526px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Right Wing propaganda website OpIndia also made a similar claim while amplifying the video. (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/jQmfH\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Archived link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-171067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/zee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1526\" height=\"1506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/zee.jpg 1526w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/zee-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/zee-1024x1011.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/zee-768x758.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1526px) 100vw, 1526px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Similarly, media outlets including <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/eLwZR\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ABP News Gujarati<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/NlBDt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Asianet News<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/TBzHD\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and Latestly,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> among others promoted the clip and accompanying claim.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-171048 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/edited-video-shared-as-crowd-chants-hanuman-chalisa-during-2023-cricket-world-cup-finals\/screenshot-2023-11-20-152820\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1530\" height=\"1404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-152820.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-152820.jpg 1530w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-152820-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-152820-1024x940.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-152820-768x705.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1530px) 100vw, 1530px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/edited-video-shared-as-crowd-chants-hanuman-chalisa-during-2023-cricket-world-cup-finals\/screenshot-2023-11-20-152841\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1528\" height=\"1514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-152841.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-152841.jpg 1528w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-152841-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-152841-1024x1015.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-152841-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-152841-768x761.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1528px) 100vw, 1528px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/edited-video-shared-as-crowd-chants-hanuman-chalisa-during-2023-cricket-world-cup-finals\/screenshot-2023-11-20-152924\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1530\" height=\"1474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-152924.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-152924.jpg 1530w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-152924-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-152924-1024x987.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-152924-768x740.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1530px) 100vw, 1530px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Verified X user Chandan (chandan_stp) shared the video stating India lost the match despite 1 lakh people chanting the scriptures. He later deleted the tweet. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/XM5g3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Archived link<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-171066\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-21-155343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"830\" height=\"1121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-21-155343.jpg 830w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-21-155343-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-21-155343-758x1024.jpg 758w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-21-155343-768x1037.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><b>Fact Check<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alt News performed a reverse image search using frames taken from the viral video, which led us to other versions of the footage uploaded on the internet by several users <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/7hgsR\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">last month<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, i.e. in October. This confirms that the video was not recorded during the ICC men\u2019s cricket World Cup final match held on November 19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_9ej5U05o00?si=gj3Il-6Vyb7gsXT6]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We also searched using keywords related to the Hanuman Chalisa on YouTube and came across a video posted by YouTube channel &#8216;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/1U73U\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jaipur Waley<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8216; on June 3, in which a crowd sitting in front of a temple is heard chanting the Hanuman Chalisa. This video contains the same audio which is heard in the viral clip. In other words, the audio from this video has been stitched to the stadium video in order to make it appear that lakhs of spectators chanted the Hanuman Chalisa in the stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OgifI_IoTgg?si=_sMheNgw72Vc9bRr]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The same video was also posted on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CtCEv9VuNU0\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> page of &#8216;Jaipur Waley&#8217; on June 3, in which the location of the mass Hanuman Chalisa recitation has been stated as Sanganeri Gate, Jaipur.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF;border: 0;border-radius: 3px;margin: 1px;max-width: 540px;min-width: 326px;padding: 0;width: calc(100% - 2px)\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CtCEv9VuNU0\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: row;align-items: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 40px;margin-right: 14px;width: 40px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 100px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 60px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 50px;margin: 0 auto 12px;width: 50px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 550;line-height: 18px\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: row;margin-bottom: 14px;align-items: center\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px;flex-grow: 0;margin-right: 14px;margin-left: 2px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 20px;width: 20px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 2px solid transparent;border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4;border-bottom: 2px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-right: 8px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;flex-grow: 0;height: 12px;width: 16px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-left: 8px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center;margin-bottom: 24px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 224px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 144px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 17px;margin-bottom: 0;margin-top: 8px;overflow: hidden;padding: 8px 0 7px;text-align: center\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 17px;text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CtCEv9VuNU0\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Jaipur Waley (@jaipur.waley_)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To sum it up, a number of media outlets promoted an old and edited video and falsely reported that spectators chanted the Hanuman Chalisa in unison at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad during the cricket World Cup between India and Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India on November 19 played Australia in the Final of the ICC men\u2019s cricket World Cup 2023 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Following this, a video in which spectators at the packed stadium are heard chanting the Hanuman Chalisa in unison was shared widely on social media. Several media outlets picked up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":171064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[701],"class_list":["post-171048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Crowd chanted Hanuman Chalisa at World Cup final? 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