Fact check: Shah Rukh Khan's upcoming movie title 'Pathan' changed to 'Jawan' due to criticism?
Amidst this ongoing boycott trend, a digital poster of an upcoming movie by Shah Rukh Khan has been released by the makers, which is in circulation with a claim that the movie name was renamed from Pathan to Jawan due to criticism online.
#BoycottBollywood, a trend started on social media damaged the box office numbers for the Bollywood stars these days. Aamir Khan's Lal Singh Chadda has been affected very badly, after which calls to boycott several movies were given ex: boycottlalsinghchadda, boycottpathan, boycottbrahmastra etc.
Amidst this ongoing boycott trend, a digital poster of an upcoming movie by Shah Rukh Khan has been released by the makers, which is in circulation with a claim that the movie name was renamed from Pathan to Jawan due to criticism online.
The claim in Hindi goes as "हकले ने अपनी आने वाली फिल्म #पठान का नाम बदल कर अब #जवान किया
अब टट्टी का नाम बदलकर रसमलाई रखने से कुछ नहीं होगा हकले बहिष्कार मतलब बहिष्कार"
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Fact check:
The claim that Shah rukh khan's Pathan movie name has been changed to Jawan is FALSE. In fact, Shah Rukh Khan is acting in two different movies which are scheduled for release in 2023. One of them is Pathan and another one is Jawan.
When searching for the Pathan movie, we found that the Pathan movie is due for release on January 25, 2023. It is clear that the producers, directors, and crew of both films are different. Pathan is being directed by Siddharth Anand and stars Deepika Padukone, John Abraham along with Shah Rukh Khan. Whereas, Jawan is directed by Atlee Kumar and stars Nayantara and Vijay Sethupathi along with Shah Rukh Khan.
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According to an article in India Today, A senior industry source told ETtimes, "There is no truth in rumors about title change of Pathaan. In fact, the makers are so confident about the title that they released John's first look with the same title." The source also shared that if Pathaan producers (YRF) were considering a title change post online flak, they would have changed the film's promotional strategy. However, no such thing is happening.
Here are the tweets of the actor showing the updates about both movies.
So, the claim that upcoming Shahrukh Khan's movie title has been changed from Pathan to Jawan is FALSE. Two different movie posters named 'Pathan' and 'Jawan' are slated for release in 2023.