Fact Check: Video of a brawl during Gadar 2 screening shared with misleading claims

Hyderabad: A video of a brawl in a theatre during the screening of Gadar 2 is being widely shared on social media with misleading communal claims.

The viral post claims that the fight started as someone loudly chanted Pakistan Zindabad.

Gadar 2-The Katha was released on 11th August 2023. People are thronging to theaters to watch the movie. The movie revolves around how an Indian man Tara Singh falls in love with the Pakistani woman Sakina during the Indo Pakistani war of 1971. The movie also contains strong dialogues about India-Pakistan relations.

Against this backdrop, a video of a fight during the screening of the movie is taking rounds. Users claim that the fight occurred after someone shouted Pakistan Zindabad.

Fact Check

NewsMeter found the claim to be false as the reason behind the fight was intoxication.

We started our investigation by performing a keyword search and found a media report in The Free Press Journal that states that a fight broke out between two intoxicated individuals during the Gadar screening at a theatre in Bareilly.

The report mentions that the dispute happened at Prasad Cinema in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. The fight broke out during the last screening of the film at Prasad Talkies in the Kotwali area at 11 p.m. The brawl turned into chaos as the two were also hitting the audience nearby.

Later the police arrived at the scene but the accused fled from the scene

Moreover, we also found a media report on Times Now, talking to Bareilly police refuting the claims of 'Pakistan Zindabad' chants being the cause of the fight.

The report also confirms that the brawl erupted due to intoxication.

We also found videos of the fight uploaded by multiple News channels as well but none mentioned any kind of chanting being the cause of the brawl during the screening.