This video of Indian film star Dilip Kumar was filmed years before his death
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- Published on July 13, 2021 at 04:52
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- By AFP India
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The video was posted on Instagram here on July 8, 2021. It was shared by an account with more than 135,000 followers.
It shows Kumar in a hospital bed while his wife -- veteran actress Saira Banu -- feeds him.
The Instagram posts reads: "LAST VIDEO of Dilip Kumar & his wife Saira Banu's Beautiful Moments from Hospital."
Dilip Kumar, nicknamed Bollywood's 'Tragedy King', died on July 7 aged 98.
His death sparked tributes from across Indian and Pakistani cinema, politics and sport.
He enjoyed a career that spanned more than 50 years and acted in nearly 60 films, including some of the most commercially successful hits of Indian cinema's golden age from the 1940s to the 1960s.
The video was shared alongside a similar claim on Instagram and Facebook, including here, here and here.
The claim is false.
A reverse image search of the video's keyframes using digital verification tool Invid-WeVerify found the same footage posted here on Kumar's official Twitter account on September 22, 2013.
The post's caption reads: "Thank you for your prayers and love. Resting in the hospital. Video from yesterday."
A screenshot from the video was featured in a news report about Kumar 's hospitalisation here by NDTV.
According to a separate NDTV report, Kumar was discharged from the hospital on September 26, 2013, four days after he tweeted the video.
Below is a comparison of the video shared in misleading social media posts and the video shared by Kumar in 2013:
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