A video showing a man recreating Bobby Deol's popular Jamal Kudu dance step from Animal went viral on Sunday with false claims that it featured Jeetendra Mishra, the newly appointed full-time CEO of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust.

The claim spread widely on social media days after Mishra, a veteran Indian Air Force pilot and former commander of the Western Air Command, was appointed as the Trust's first full-time CEO.

However, fact-checks later confirmed that the man seen dancing in the video was not Mishra.

The clip, which had originally surfaced in November 2025, showed a different man balancing a glass on his head while dancing, similar to Bobby Deol's now-viral entry sequence in Animal set to the song Jamal Kudu.

Old video resurfaces with false claim

The misleading posts gained traction after the appointment of Mishra, who was selected by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust following a review of 5,585 applications.

The former Air Force officer was appointed on September 3 to oversee key aspects of the Trust's functioning, including operations, security and donations.

As the unrelated video began circulating with Mishra's name attached to it, several social media users reshared the claim before the identity mismatch was pointed out.

Among those who shared the video was CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke, who initially used the clip to raise questions about what he described as differing standards applied to people's personal lives.

“There’s nothing wrong with what someone does in their personal life. I just wonder how the “dharm ke thekedaar” would have reacted if this person wasn’t the CEO of the Ram Mandir Trust,” he wrote while sharing the video.

After learning that the man in the video was not Mishra, Dipke issued a clarification on X.

“It has been pointed out to me that the person in this video is not Jeetendra Mishra. Though, as I said earlier, what someone does in their personal life is entirely their own business,” he wrote.

He added that his original point was not about the individual in the video or their personal choices, but about what he called hypocrisy in the way people are judged depending on who they are.

Congress leader Rashmi INC, who had also shared the claim, later acknowledged that the video had been misinterpreted after she came across a Facebook link.