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| The photo of girls wearing lungi was probably from a college dance programme. |
June 6, 2016, NewsCrunch
Congratulations are pouring in for a group of Kerala girls, who have reportedly protested against a ban on wearing jeans in their Thiruvananthapuram college.
Given the conservative colleges in Kerala, which frequently make odd-ball restrictions, the story is convincing and the photo has gone viral.
The photo is real, but the story is fake.
It had gone viral earlier as well, in August 2015, when Mahesh Babu’s Srimanthudu had released. Many Telugu websites had featured the photo and spun their own story.
The most poplar version stated that a group of Mahesh Babu fans were mimicking his lungi avatar in Jaago Jaagore song. A few said the girls were from theUSA .
Congratulations are pouring in for a group of Kerala girls, who have reportedly protested against a ban on wearing jeans in their Thiruvananthapuram college.
Given the conservative colleges in Kerala, which frequently make odd-ball restrictions, the story is convincing and the photo has gone viral.
The photo is real, but the story is fake.
It had gone viral earlier as well, in August 2015, when Mahesh Babu’s Srimanthudu had released. Many Telugu websites had featured the photo and spun their own story.
The most poplar version stated that a group of Mahesh Babu fans were mimicking his lungi avatar in Jaago Jaagore song. A few said the girls were from the
The most possible explanation comes from stray comments which say the girls wearing lungi photo was probably from a college dance programme. It can also be probably traced to any college in India , not just Kerala, which abhors colour lungis.
But Kerala girls have in the past burnt the Internet by stepping out in lungis.
During last Onam, at the height of the Premam craze, a group of girls from St Teresa's College, Ernakulam, went to the campus dressing up like Nivin Pauly in lungis.
A Malayalam daily published the photo and was shared by Nivin on his Facebook page. It had also gone viral.
During last Onam, at the height of the Premam craze, a group of girls from St Teresa's College, Ernakulam, went to the campus dressing up like Nivin Pauly in lungis.
A Malayalam daily published the photo and was shared by Nivin on his Facebook page. It had also gone viral.
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| During last Onam, at the height of the Premam craze, a group of girls from St Teresa's College, Ernakulam, went to the campus dressing up like Nivin Pauly in lungis. |
A picture of my junior girls in lungi is trending on social media for the past year and the caption, When Kerala says not to wear jeans!— Doctor George (@jenSg_Sg) June 6, 2016
Lungi rules over jeans in Kerala... https://t.co/IdD5A70d2w— Vivacious Vids (@VivaciousVids) June 6, 2016
A college in Kerala banned Jeans ..so these girls Lungi-ed it up..Well done @ Alok https://t.co/Kina2ntvBD— Alok Mukherjee (@kartikalok) June 6, 2016
Dear @HindolSengupta u must request @iamsrk to perform a lungi dance in Kerala as well.. d whole farcial & contradictions r clearly visible.— miss universe db (@missuniversedb) June 6, 2016
A college in Kerala recently banned jeans so these girls lungi-ed it up! Well done ! 🙌🏼👊🏼 pic.twitter.com/sBGuzejLqL— Archana Vijaya (@archanavijaya) June 6, 2016