The video has been doing the rounds of the internet for around a year and a coffee chain from South Africa has even claimed credit.
New Delhi: Veteran Bollywood actor and Chairman of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Anupam Kher, tweeted Wednesday a video of what he claimed was a Turkish coffee maker designing actress Sridevi’s face in a cup of coffee.
Somewhere in Istanbul a coffee maker remembers #Sridevi.:) #Touching #Poignant #QueenOfIndianCinema #MyFavouriteActress #GoneTooSoon #RecievedViaMessage pic.twitter.com/36gu534FrH
— Anupam Kher (@AnupamPKher) March 13, 2018
The actor said he had received the ‘tribute’ through a message and didn’t specify who it had come from. The tweet has already been retweeted 636 times and the video has received over 32.9k views.
However, the woman drawn in the cup of coffee may bear some resemblance, but wasn’t done in honour of Sridevi. Also the video isn’t from Istanbul.
The video that Kher shared has actually been shared a number times on the internet earlier. For instance, one Twitter user tweeted the video in December 2017, marking the location as Savignano sul Rubicone in Italy.
@arica72 decondo me il barista ti conosce …??? pic.twitter.com/AcoUaX55iX
— NonHoIlFisico (@GianniSpada) December 11, 2017
Another Twitter user replied to Kher’s tweet alerting him to the fact that this was not Sridevi. She told Kher she had received this video in message a year ago.
I don't think it's face of Sridevi.. have got such forwards past one year back too..
— Urvashi.Khona (@urvashikhona) March 14, 2018
The same video was shared on YouTube as well in May 2017.
About 7 months ago, a South African coffee house, Gloria Jeans Coffee shared the video on their Facebook page along with a promotional message for Women’s Day. The coffee house also claimed credit for the art.
Kher was contacted on Twitter and WhatsApp for a comment but he did not respond.