Bhojpuri shooting clip falsely shared as a woman performing a Navratri ritual in the middle of fire
Bhojpuri shooting clip falsely shared as a woman performing a Navratri ritual in the middle of fire
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Viral posts claim a video shows a woman standing in fire during Navratri and screaming for help as part of a religious ritual. Fact-checkers have rated the claim misleading. The clip is from a Bhojpuri video shoot posted on YouTube on October 6, and was made using a green screen effect.Viral posts claim a video shows a woman standing in fire during Navratri and screaming for help as part of a religious ritual. Fact-checkers have rated the claim misleading. The clip is from a Bhojpuri video shoot posted on YouTube on October 6, and was made using a green screen effect.
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On October 15, 2026, the verified X handle “Dhruvaa” (@ripper_dhruvaa) shared a video of a woman in red surrounded by a ring of fire under a tree at a temple, with the overlay “woman performed her religious rituals while standing in the middle of the fire”. The caption claimed that during Navratri women stood among the flames to pray, that she began screaming for help as the fire grew, and asked “tradition or rationality?”. The post drew about 23,500 views. It was reshared the next day by “Shabnam” (@DeMOCKERYcy) with a mocking caption about facing the “consequences” of faith. Fact-checkers have rated the claim misleading. The footage comes from a YouTube Short posted on October 6, 2026, by the channel @Sudhastoryfact, titled “Sanjana pandey ka shooting scene” with the hashtags #bhojpuri and #shootday. YouTube labels it as made with a “Green screen” effect. It shows a staged scene from a video shoot, not a real ritual. Presenting staged entertainment content as a dangerous religious practice is a common way to mock faith and spread a distorted picture of India’s traditions, so such videos should be traced to their original source before being shared.
On October 15, 2026, the verified X handle “Dhruvaa” (@ripper_dhruvaa) shared a video of a woman in red surrounded by a ring of fire under a tree at a temple, with the overlay “woman performed her religious rituals while standing in the middle of the fire”. The caption claimed that during Navratri women stood among the flames to pray, that she began screaming for help as the fire grew, and asked “tradition or rationality?”. The post drew about 23,500 views. It was reshared the next day by “Shabnam” (@DeMOCKERYcy) with a mocking caption about facing the “consequences” of faith. Fact-checkers have rated the claim misleading. The footage comes from a YouTube Short posted on October 6, 2026, by the channel @Sudhastoryfact, titled “Sanjana pandey ka shooting scene” with the hashtags #bhojpuri and #shootday. YouTube labels it as made with a “Green screen” effect. It shows a staged scene from a video shoot, not a real ritual. Presenting staged entertainment content as a dangerous religious practice is a common way to mock faith and spread a distorted picture of India’s traditions, so such videos should be traced to their original source before being shared.