{"id":89837,"date":"2021-04-07T14:35:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T09:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=89837"},"modified":"2021-04-15T12:23:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T06:53:43","slug":"still-from-2014-bhojpuri-movie-shared-as-violence-against-hindu-woman-in-west-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/still-from-2014-bhojpuri-movie-shared-as-violence-against-hindu-woman-in-west-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"Still from 2014 Bhojpuri movie shared as violence against Hindu woman in West Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal elections have become a hotspot for communal misinformation as claims suggesting that the Mamata Banerjee government is unsympathetic towards the state&#8217;s Hindu population are widespread. In the latest spree is an image of a man pulling a woman&#8217;s saree while mute bystanders watch. &#8220;In Bengal, the houses of Hindus are burnt, temples are being demolished. Nevertheless the UN shanti duniya silent world only speaks for the Rohingyos. Gaddar will now fight for our brothers. #StandWithBengalHindus,&#8221; is the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dhaker545613Mk\/status\/1378641151759020034\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">message shared<\/a> with the image.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89838 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/download-2021-04-07T133556.546.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/download-2021-04-07T133556.546.jpg 588w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/download-2021-04-07T133556.546-280x300.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmarAga16929196\/status\/1378694354819186700\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter accounts<\/a> have circulated the image.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-89837 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/still-from-2014-bhojpuri-movie-shared-as-violence-against-hindu-woman-in-west-bengal\/7ea83d77-26a0-4d0b-a985-33f02ddc84a3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"579\" height=\"609\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/7ea83d77-26a0-4d0b-a985-33f02ddc84a3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/7ea83d77-26a0-4d0b-a985-33f02ddc84a3.jpg 579w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/7ea83d77-26a0-4d0b-a985-33f02ddc84a3-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/still-from-2014-bhojpuri-movie-shared-as-violence-against-hindu-woman-in-west-bengal\/ce4f8ccc-6f3f-4133-8835-cf68c7efedcb\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"585\" height=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/ce4f8ccc-6f3f-4133-8835-cf68c7efedcb.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/ce4f8ccc-6f3f-4133-8835-cf68c7efedcb.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/ce4f8ccc-6f3f-4133-8835-cf68c7efedcb-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/still-from-2014-bhojpuri-movie-shared-as-violence-against-hindu-woman-in-west-bengal\/e784439d-a40b-4a07-81c7-ad4f00490e57\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"583\" height=\"627\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/e784439d-a40b-4a07-81c7-ad4f00490e57.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/e784439d-a40b-4a07-81c7-ad4f00490e57.jpg 583w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/e784439d-a40b-4a07-81c7-ad4f00490e57-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/still-from-2014-bhojpuri-movie-shared-as-violence-against-hindu-woman-in-west-bengal\/071787f9-6348-4aeb-ae59-446f62f1f0bf-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"588\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/071787f9-6348-4aeb-ae59-446f62f1f0bf-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/071787f9-6348-4aeb-ae59-446f62f1f0bf-1.jpg 588w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/071787f9-6348-4aeb-ae59-446f62f1f0bf-1-268x300.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4>Still from a Bhojpuri movie<\/h4>\n<p>The image is a scene from the Bhojpuri movie &#8216;Aurat Khilona Nahi&#8217;, released in 2014. The same image can be seen in a <a href=\"http:\/\/bhojpuritrade.blogspot.com\/2014\/08\/blog-post_16.html\">blog post<\/a> from 2014.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22177 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-08-at-1.16.32-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-08-at-1.16.32-AM.png 630w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-08-at-1.16.32-AM-244x300.png 244w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-08-at-1.16.32-AM-324x400.png 324w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-08-at-1.16.32-AM-341x420.png 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This particular still can be seen at approximately 2 hours and 11 minutes into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5K7eowfxqsE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22186\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/bhojpuri-youtube.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/bhojpuri-youtube.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/bhojpuri-youtube-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/bhojpuri-youtube-768x591.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/bhojpuri-youtube-696x536.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/bhojpuri-youtube-545x420.jpg 545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alt News had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/vicious-cycle-fake-images-basirhat-riots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> this image when it was first circulated by many on social media in July 2017 after riots had broken out in Basirhat in West Bengal. It was shared with a similar claim that a Hindu woman was molested by members of the Muslim community.<\/p>\n<p>Vijeta Malik, who according to her Facebook bio was a state executive member of BJP Haryana, had also shared this image back then with the claim that Hindus were under attack in West Bengal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22178\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/vijeta-malik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/vijeta-malik.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/vijeta-malik-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/vijeta-malik-492x420.jpg 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the same image was falsely shared as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/still-from-bhojpuri-movie-circulated-as-dalit-woman-stripped-by-bsp-leader-and-his-goons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dalit woman stripped by BSP leader<\/a> and his goons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal elections have become a hotspot for communal misinformation as claims suggesting that the Mamata Banerjee government is unsympathetic towards the state&#8217;s Hindu population are widespread. In the latest spree is an image of a man pulling a woman&#8217;s saree while mute bystanders watch. &#8220;In Bengal, the houses of Hindus are burnt, temples are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":89843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,55],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[115],"class_list":["post-89837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/Untitled-design-27.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89837"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90504,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89837\/revisions\/90504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89837"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=89837"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=89837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}