Unrelated Video Falsely Shared as One of Public Assault on Kangana Ranaut

A video showing a woman dressed in a white saree being dragged out a car by her hair, with people pulling at her and assaulting her is being shared on social media.

The claim: The video is being shared to claim that the woman is Kangana Ranaut, actor and Member of Parliament (MP) for the Mandi Lok Sabha constituency in Himachal Pradesh.

• The video is being shared amid Ranaut’s recent remarks on the women participating in the Cockroach Janta Party-led (CJP) protests, calling them “gutter generation” and drawing ire for the remark.

At the time of writing this report, this Instagram post had received over 13 lakh views.

(Archived versions of more posts sharing this claim can be seen here, here, and here.)

Is it true?: No, the claim is false. There are no credible reports of Ranaut being assaulted over her remarks.