Anurag Kashyap’s prank gives black eye to journalists - Who’s who of Indian media falls for his prank

Staff correspondent, August 25, 2015, NewsCrunch

A prank played by popular film maker Anurag Kashyap bit some of the big names in the media. NDTV, Zee, India TV and so on.

On Tuesday morning, Anurag Kashyap posted a picture of his bandaged eye on Twitter and said that’s what you get if you get into a fight with a mixed martial arts fighter.

So, several publications, including the stalwarts named above, churned out sympathetic reports without getting any detail or even verifying it.

A Bollywood site Pink Villa even published a get-well message to Anurag Kashyap.

Anurag Kashyap, later tweeted again, and said he had won a bet. He was expecting the media to publish the story without verifying and that’s what some of them did. The photo, he revealed, was just a prosthetics test.

After the disclosure, NDTVdeleted the story without any explanation, while ZeeNewsand India TV are sticking on to their early versions at the time of this report - 5.15 am, India Time.

Deccan Chronicle also seemed to have fallen for it and but updated the report later.

Tail piece –

This priceless gem comes from India TV:

Going by the picture it seems that the director has been hit pretty bad and might need some time off to recover from the injury. Meanwhile, it also seems that he has taken it all quite sportingly.

Anurag Kashyap prank and response on Twitter