Reel makers sometimes take the risk to show their enthusiasm and film trending video clips. One such incident has come from Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, where a youth lay down on the railway track and seemingly let a train roll over him. Suffice to say, it was terrifying.
The video, which has since gone viral, shows the reel maker with a mobile phone resting on the train track. Almost in a matter of moments, the video shows a train traveling along the track. The recording appeared to show the man hanging out on the rail until the entire train travel above him. He simply waited out under the train to make his reel.
Wearing a bright shirt and light-blue denim jeans, he was laying flat on a live railway track for a real-life stunt. He lay his body across the center of the rail track with margins extended out horizontally, and in one hand he held the phone to document the moment.
In the beginning of the video, you see him shuffling along the tracks and then the train moved. When the video made it to the internet, a handful of users on X claimed that the video was cut. Users pointed out the two frames that were shown, the frame of the subject and the frame of the train, and asserted that they were edited.
“This is a edited video I think”, says first user. “It’s Edited I feel. He just laid down and added a train video and at last got up”, the another one commented.
At this point, it is not clear if the video was modified or filmed when a train actually passed over the creator of the reel. GRP officer Arvind Pandey explained to TOI that the due forensic examination of the cell phone would show whether the video was altered and how. He warned, however, that the young man knew how to edit videos for Instagram.
The media identified the individual as 22-year-old Ranjit Chaurasia, noting that he lay on the railway tracks as a Vande Bharat Express drove over him, with Chaurasia sustaining no injuries. GRP apprehended Chaurasia for his foolish stunt and added that it occurred near the Kusumbhi platform on the Kanpur-Lucknow route.
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