A video of a band of children making music out of empty tin cans and self-made flutes has been shared on Indian social media. People have assumed that the video is from India since the tunes played by the band resembles the song 'Aao bachho tumhe dikhaye jhanki Hindustan ki' from Satyen Bose's 1954 film 'Jagriti'.

Actor Anupam Kher claimed the video is from a village in India. He shared the video on both Twitter and Facebook.

The video is widespread in India.

NDTV also penned a story on the viral video.

Fact-check

This fact-check is divided into two sections:

1. Where is the video from?

2. What song are the children playing?

Old video from Pakistan

We found several people from Pakistan comment (1, 2) that the video is from Hunza in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. They also said that the children were known as 'Chilimchi band'.

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The oldest instance of the video that we found dates back to May 16, 2014. A Facebook user from Hunza had shared the video.

https://www.facebook.com/100003854732117/videos/397228607082294

A page named Hunza Folk had also shared the video but in 2015. In a conversation with Alt News, the page informed that the video was shot in Hyderabad village, Hunza. The page shared a photograph of the band with Alt News.

We found this image as the display picture of a Facebook page that goes by the name 'Josh band' and the About section of the page says 'Chilimchi band'.

The page has thanked Pakistan singer-songwriter Shehzad Roy for sharing their video.

Alt News further located a journalist from Gilgit interviewing the band in 2013 for Channel 5. The children said that they gained training from a local band.

https://www.facebook.com/pervez.mir.73/videos/366694996775964

Hunza Folk connected Alt News with Kashif Nawaz, the founder of the band. "The story began back in 2013 when I was just 14 years old. I belong to a small village in Hunza called Hyderabad, Muhallah Khurukushal. I was very fond of music, and used to play instruments since my childhood. I used to play the flute at home but one day I thought why don't I create a band?"

https://www.facebook.com/pervez.mir.73/videos/366694996775964

Nawaz said that the band was playing the song 'Aao baccho sair karain tumko Paksitan ki'. This is the Pakistani version of the original song 'Aao bachho tumhe dikhaye jhanki Hindustan ki' from the 1954 movie 'Jagriti'. Pakistani film 'Bedari' released in 1956 had the song with the same tune but changed lyrics. Actor Ratan Kumar migrated to Pakistan soon after the release of 'Jagriti'. He played the lead role in 'Bedari' as well.

In fact, the movie 'Bedari' was a complete copy of 'Jagriti'. The Urdu word 'Bedari' means 'awakening' which is also the meaning of the Hindi word 'Jagriti'. The film was banned in Pakistan after the Censor Board found that it was plagiarised.

An old video of a band formed by children in Pakistan's Hunza is therefore viral with the false claim that the video is from India.