The Deepfakes Analysis Unit (DAU) analysed a video that shows Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi apparently promoting a supposed financial investment platform being associated with Mukesh Ambani, chairperson of Reliance Industries. After running the video through A.I. detection tools and getting our expert partners to weigh in, we were able to conclude that separate video tracks were stitched together and used with an A.I.-generated audio track to fabricate the video.
A Facebook link to the three-minute-and-25-seconds video in English was discovered by the DAU through social media monitoring. The video, embedded in a post, was published on June 1, 2025 from an account with the display name of “Cesen”, and a display picture depicting a globe with the word “news” emblazoned on it in bold. “Arts and entertainment” appears as the selection made under the “categories” section of the profile.
We don’t have any evidence to suggest if this suspicious video originated from the aforementioned account or another. So far, the video has garnered more than 700,000 views.
The video has been packaged like a television news segment. It opens with Anjana Om Kashyap, a senior journalist with the Hindi news channel Aaj Tak, apparently speaking to the camera from a studio-like setting with a colourful and animated background. A laptop and a mug are visible in front of her. A red sticker with the words “Parul University NAACA++” can be seen on the laptop lid. The mug, though partially visible, seems to carry a combination of letters and colors seen with the logos of Aaj Tak and India Today TV, respectively, both channels are part of the India Today Group, an Indian media conglomerate.
Bold, static text graphics in English are visible at the top and bottom of the video frame throughout. The words at the top read: “Shah Rukh Khan has accused Modi of lying!”. The messaging at the bottom mentions that “invest 21,500 (rupees) today and get 1,600,000 (rupees) in 29 days thanks to Mukesh Ambani’s poverty alleviation program”.
As Ms. Om Kashyap’s audio and video starts playing, a video track of Mr. Khan plays out simultaneously in the background though without any audio. A female voice recorded with her video track claims that in some recent interview Khan has accused Mr. Modi and the Indian government of hiding information about a new “passive income platform” from Indian citizens. The same voice adds that Khan claims that the Indian government has asked him to withdraw his statement regarding the supposed platform.
The next segment in the video shows Khan in a medium close-up. He appears to be seated in a studio-like setting with a yellow and white backdrop. A microphone placed in front of him has a yellow sticker with the words “Locarno film festival” printed on it. He seems to be focussing on something or someone instead of looking at the camera, giving the impression that he’s being interviewed.
A male voice recorded over Khan’s video track alleges that the Indian government is hiding information about the purported platform through which people can “earn up to 1,600,000 rupees” every month with an investment of “21,500 rupees”. It claims that the platform is “completely legal” and “already available all over the country”.
The voice refers to Khan in the first person and states that his videos are supposedly being deleted while there are “requests” from Mr. Ambani. It adds that this could be due to some “personal problem” between Modi and Khan; and asserts that Khan is “not afraid of the government” and is “ready to do anything” to convey the “truth” to “common Indians” for them to “start living a better life”. The voice rephrases the message highlighted through the text graphics, and with that Khan’s segment ends.
Om Kashyap re-appears briefly. The same female voice heard in the first segment can be heard in this segment as well, purportedly introducing Modi’s reaction to Khan’s “statement”. Modi’s segment, which follows, shows him in a close-up, speaking to the camera from a formal setting with several Indian flags in the backdrop.
A male voice, different from the one heard in Khan’s segment, recorded over Modi’s video track refers to Modi in the first person. It justifies the secrecy and declares that the supposed platform was being tested by the Indian government and Modi to ensure that “it is not a pyramid scheme.” In a reassuring tone, the voice states that the “platform is reliable”, has “made substantial profits for thousands of Indians”, and has “received government support and an official government license”.
As the voice repeats the numbers from the text graphics it also gives a supposed breakup of the daily and hourly earnings from the purported platform; the numbers do not add up. A mention of “twenty-one thousand fifteen hundred rupees” can be heard as opposed to “21,500” being touted as the investment amount everywhere else in the video. The other discrepancy between the text graphics and the audio, throughout the video, is the prescribed investment time frame; the former mentions “29 days” and the latter mentions a month.
The same voice goes on to say that the purported investment platform uses “artificial intelligence” to combine “cutting edge technology” with “deep understanding of financial markets” to “automate cryptocurrency trading.” It adds that the supposed “software can be run on any device” and that the purported project is available to “everyone in the country”.
Toward the end of the video, the voice reassures the viewers that they can “withdraw money to any card” of their bank “at any time” while also urging them to “take action” by suggesting that their “chance for a better life is here and now”. As the video track of Modi and the accompanying voice stop, a bright red slide with bold text in white appears, which ends the video. The text reads: “the button below the video” and an arrow points downward.
No “button” can be seen below the video, however, a link is visible in the body of the Facebook post carrying the video. For the purpose of this report, we clicked on the link, which led to a website that appears to have been designed like an investment portal. (We would like to caution our readers against clicking on suspicious links).
The words “Invest India” are visible in the top left corner of the website along with an image that appears to be a logo. The website seems to have multiple sections such as “resource repository”, “success stories”, and “investible sectors”, however, the tabs associated with each of these sections are unresponsive. It seems like a dummy website; the web address doesn’t reflect the supposed name associated with the website i.e. “Invest India”.
The overall video quality is fairly decent. There are no jump cuts in Om Kashyap’s segment. A single white flash transition is visible in the segment featuring Khan while jump cuts punctuate the flow in Modi’s segment as the frames alternate between a close-up and a tight close-up.
The lip movements of the subjects are fairly aligned with their respective audio tracks, however, there are visible inconsistencies, which could indicate a forced lip-sync. Om Kashyap’s mouth appears to be wide open with her lips moving in an odd manner. Modi’s lips movements seem very fast paced and his mouth appears to close unnaturally fast in some frames. Khan’s lips exhibit an unusual shine in some frames and they seem to move independent to the rest of the face in a few other frames.
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Khan’s and Om Kashyap’s teeth seem well-defined in some frames and appear as blurry patches of white in others, however, Modi’s teeth look consistent throughout his frames. A peculiarity with Om Kashyap’s teeth is that they seem elongated in some frames while Khan’s teeth appear to change shape across frames.
On comparing the voices heard in the video with the real voices of three subjects, as heard in their recorded videos available online, the differences are evident. The voice attributed to Khan sounds somewhat like him but does not match his natural accent; the pronunciation of Modi's and Ambani’s full names by Khan’s purported voice sounds very anglicised.
In Modi’s case, his purported voice bears no resemblance to his real voice, the accent with it sounds very foreign, and his signature voice modulation is completely absent. In Om Kashyap’s recorded videos she can be heard speaking in Hindi, it is difficult to establish how her English accent would compare with that heard in the audio track associated with her. The intonation and pauses characteristic of human speech are missing from all the voices, making the overall delivery for all three voices sound scripted.
We undertook a reverse image search using screenshots from the video. Om Kashyap’s clips were traced to this video published on May 21, 2025 from the official website of Aaj Tak. Khan’s clips were traced to this video published on Oct. 16, 2024 from the official YouTube channel for the Locarno Film Festival, a film festival held annually in Switzerland. Modi’s clips were traced to this video published on May 12, 2025 from his official YouTube account.
The clothing and body language of the speakers in the video we reviewed and the videos we were able to locate are identical. However, their respective backdrops look slightly different because the clips of Om Kashyap, Khan, and Modi used in the manipulated version are more zoomed-in with portions of the background cropped out. In the case of Khan’s and Om Kashyap’s footage, respectively, the source video features other subjects as well but none are part of the doctored video.
The audio track with Modi’s and Om Kashyap’s respective original videos is in Hindi while Khan speaks in English in his source video. None of them mention any financial scheme. In the original video featuring Om Kashyap the official logo of Aaj Tak can be seen in the upper right corner of the frame. In Modi’s original video a thumbnail of a screenshot from the video sits in the lower right corner of the frame.
This video is yet another example of a scam video that peddles a false narrative about a supposed rift between the government and a public figure regarding a purported financial platform beneficial to Indian citizens. The DAU has previously debunked similar videos such as this and this.
To discern the extent of A.I. manipulation in the video under review, we put it through A.I. detection tools.
The voice tool of Hiya, a company that specialises in artificial intelligence solutions for voice safety, indicated that there is a 99 percent probability of the audio track in the video having been generated or modified using A.I.
Hive AI’s deepfake video detection tool highlighted several markers of A.I. manipulation in Om Kashyap’s segments in the video track. The tool did not detect any manipulation in the segments featuring Khan and Modi. Their audio detection tool indicated that the entire audio track of the video is A.I.-generated.
We also ran the audio track from the video through Deepfake-O-Meter, an open platform developed by Media Forensics Lab (MDFL) at UB for detection of A.I.-generated image, video, and audio. The tool provides a selection of classifiers that can be used to analyse media files.
We chose six audio detectors, out of which four indicated that it was highly likely that the audio track in the video is A.I.-generated. AASIST (2021) and RawNet2 (2021) are designed to detect audio impersonations, voice clones, replay attacks, and other forms of audio spoofs. The Linear Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (LFCC) - Light Convolutional Neural Network (LCNN) 2021 model classifies genuine versus synthetic speech to detect audio deepfakes.
RawNet3 (2023) allows for nuanced detection of synthetic audio while RawNet2-Vocoder (2025) is useful in identifying synthesised speech. Whisper (2023) is designed to analyse synthetic human voices.
To check for elements of A.I. in the audio we ran it through the A.I. speech classifier of ElevenLabs, a company specialising in voice A.I. research and deployment. The results that returned indicated that it was “very likely” that the audio track used in the video was generated using their platform.
We reached out to ElevenLabs for a comment on the analysis. They told us that based on technical signals analysed by them they were able to confirm that the audio track in the video is A.I.-generated. They added that they have taken action against the individuals who misused their tools to hold them accountable.
To get further analysis on the video, we escalated it to the Global Deepfake Detection System (GODDS), a detection system set up by Northwestern University’s Security & AI Lab (NSAIL). The video was analysed by two human analysts, run through 22 deepfake detection algorithms for video analysis, and seven deepfake algorithms for audio analysis.
Of the 22 predictive models, 14 gave a higher probability of the video being fake and the remaining eight gave a lower probability of the video being fake. Six of the seven predictive models gave a high confidence score to the audio being fake and only one model gave a low confidence score to the audio being fake.
In their report, the team noted that Om Kashyap’s nose often moves separately from her mouth as she appears to speak, making the movement look unnatural. They too pointed to a white flash in the video, as mentioned in our analysis above, suggesting that this could indicate selective media editing and possible inauthenticity.
The team also highlighted that Khan’s teeth and mouth seem to change shape frequently; and they noted specific instances in the video when his teeth appear blurry and damaged. For Modi’s segment, they pointed to multiple moments where his teeth seem to unnaturally overlap with the mouth. They stated that the voice accompanying Modi’s video track lacks natural tonal inflections, and sounds unnaturally monotone.
To get an expert to weigh in on the video, we reached out to our partners at RIT’s DeFake project. Saniat Sohrawardi and Kelly Wu from the project pointed to signs of A.I. manipulation in the video.
Mr. Sohrawardi and Ms. Wu observed that Om Kashyap’s segment is a lip-sync deepfake. According to them, snippets of a real video were stitched together to create her segment and then lip-synced. Unlike previous videos escalated to them by the DAU, for this one they noted that the video was probably not produced using an image-to-video converter.
Sohrawardi and Wu corroborated our observations regarding Om Kashyap’s mouth movements in the doctored video. They stated that her overall lip-sync shows a very limited range of mouth movements, which are not reflected in the source video. They added that in the doctored video her lower lip is mostly static, her upper set of teeth is way more visible and her mouth, overall, has less variation.
The RIT team also pointed to instances where her mouth is out-of-sync with the audio. They further highlighted the extra movements in the mouth region, identifying them as remnants of the original video that was used in the generation of the lip-sync fake. They explained that these were typical signs of lower quality versions of such fakes.
For Khan’s segment, the team stated that the lip-sync was mostly well-done but despite that they could spot artefacts. Echoing our observations, the team highlighted the peculiar pronunciation of Ambani’s name in the audio track, and pointed to Khan not doing so in real life. And for Modi’s segment they noted that the video was overall robotic with overly static movement and a mismatching voice.
Based on our findings and analyses from experts, we can conclude that separate video tracks of Khan, Modi, and Om Kashyap have been stitched together and used with synthetic audio to fabricate yet another financial scam video.
(Written by Debraj Sarkar, Rahul Adhikari, and Debopriya Bhattacharya, edited by Pamposh Raina.)
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