A series of images featuring Bollywood actor Salman Khan with actress Aishwarya Rai’s daughter, Aaradhya Bachchan, are circulating extensively on social media, claiming that the two met during the filming of Khan’s upcoming movie, Sikandar.
The post with the picture collage reads: “Aaradhya Bachchan Meets Salman Khan During Sikandar Movie Shooting |Ashwarya Abhishek Relationship”
The above post can be seen here (archive). More posts can be seen here, here and here.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the pictures in question, and found them to be morphed.
Conducting a Reverse Image Search of the individual images separated from the collage, the NM team traced multiple reports featuring similar images, suggesting that Salman Khan meeting Indian boxer Nikhat Zareen. (These reports can be seen here and here)
Scanning through the official Instagram handle of Nikhat Zareen, we detected the original pictures and stills from the videos which were manipulated using the photo-editing software.
The above images were taken from two videos posted by Zareen on November 8, 2022, and November 8, 2023. In fact, Aaradhya’s face has been superimposed onto Zareen’s face in these images. The original videos can be seen here and here.
Similarly, Zareen’s other picture with Salman was manipulated using the photo-editing software.
So in conclusion, the above findings establish that the viral pictures are morphed.
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