Fact Check: Is Sita Ramam based on true story of Lieutenant Ram and Noor Jahan?

A collage of reel and real characters from the blockbuster movie `Sita Ramam’ is being widely shared on social media. Users claim that the image shows the reel pair and the real couple from the movie.

The story of the movie Sita Ramam goes around an orphaned soldier. His life changes after he receives a letter from a girl named Sita. He meets her and love blossoms between them. When he returns to her camp in Kashmir, he sends a letter to Sita that does not reach her. Later, on returning to Pakistan, Afreen sets off to fulfill her grandfather's wish of delivering a letter from Ram to Sita. Along the way, she finds Ram and learns about their love story.

Does this collage show a real couple of the love story? Let’s find out.

Fact Check

NewsMeter found the claim to be false as the people shown in the image are not the real characters of the love story.

Is the movie Sita Ramam based on a real-life story?

This is still a mystery, some entertainment-based websites call it real and some call it fiction with a great idea behind it. It’s hard to comment on the background of the story but we can still find out if the characters shown in the collage have some co-relation.

We started our investigation by performing a reverse image search, taking the image of Lieutenant Ram from the viral collage. We found that Lieutenant Ram, ‘Lt Ram Prakash Roperia’, son of Bhal Singh, was born in Pali village in Hissar District of Haryana on 10th June 1959. He was shot at and injured by a terrorist. He retaliated and neutralized the terrorist. Despite being seriously injured and hit by two bullets, he walked down the stairs and established a line with D company. However, as he reached the ground floor he collapsed and was evacuated to the hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. He was awarded the nation’s highest peacetime gallantry award ‘Ashoka Chakra’ posthumously. He passed away on the night of 5th/6th June 1984.

Moving to the image of Noor Jahan, over a reverse image search we found that the woman in the image is neither Noor Jahan nor from India. She was Neslishah Sultan. She was born in 1921 and was married to Prince Abdel Moneim and became a princess of the Egyptian royal family. She died at the age of 91 in 2012.

As per the information gathered, there is no similarity in the events of birth, death, place, or history between the both characters. Hence, it is evident that the viral image showing the two as real-life couple is baseless and fake.