{"id":82421,"date":"2020-12-14T20:19:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T14:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=82421"},"modified":"2020-12-14T20:19:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T14:49:33","slug":"digitally-created-image-viral-as-shahrukh-khans-lookalike-discovered-in-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/digitally-created-image-viral-as-shahrukh-khans-lookalike-discovered-in-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitally-created image viral as Shahrukh Khan’s lookalike discovered in Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"

An image of a young boy who looks strikingly like Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan is circulating on social media with the claim that the boy is from Kashmir.<\/p>\n

Jammu & Kashmir Youth Congress member Aabid Mir Magami<\/a> posted this image and wrote, “Kashmiri boy is taking rounds on Social media who looks Like as Bollywood Badashah @iamsrk”. This tweet has been retweeted over 500 times since December 13.\u00a0 (archived link<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Several people have shared this image on Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Digitally created image goes viral<\/h4>\n

Alt News looked up for media reports on a child from Kashmir who looks like Shahrukh Khan. However, there were none. But we did find reports by India Today<\/a> and Hindustan Times<\/a> about Khan’s lookalike. None of them had the level of facial similarity as the boy in the viral picture.<\/p>\n

We performed a reverse image search using InVID browser plugin and found that a similar image of Khan was published by Getty Images<\/a>. As per the caption, the image is from the 55th Cannes film festival held on May 23, 2002.<\/p>\n

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Both the images are identical except for the fact that in the viral image Khan looks several decades younger. The viral image has been made using a photo editing app called FaceApp<\/a> that allows you to add various filters on a portrait image such as smile, beards, gender, face swap, age, hairstyles and others.<\/p>\n

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We downloaded FaceApp and applied the ‘young age’ filter on the Getty Images photo. Below is a comparison of the original image with the viral photograph and the one created by Alt News on FaceApp. The viral image has been adjusted for brightness, saturation and contrast.<\/p>\n

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Thus, an image of Shahrukh Khan from 2002 was edited and shared with the false claim that a Kashmiri boy looks just like him. The viral image was edited using software that changes a person’s features to make them look younger, old, etc. The application also allows the user to change the gender of a person, as shown below.<\/p>\n

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