Browsing the International Movie Database (IMDb) recently, techie Prashant Baid chanced upon a certain Subhankar Bagchi named in the “top cast” section of Ranbir Kapoor’s upcoming film Animal. Bagchi’s IMDb page shows him as part of other flicks like Badhai Do, Radhe Shyam, and Jersey. It claims he’ll feature in projects like Liger and Ganapath, too.
Yet, Baid found that Bagchi has had nothing to do with any of these movies. The young man was merely one of many imposters hiding in plain sight.
“Our guy here has manufactured his stature online by feeding misinformation to the sources that Google uses to construct a knowledge panel,” Baid explained. “He has fooled the mighty Google search algorithms into believing he is a person of certain notability.”
A Google knowledge panel—sidebars with photos, information, and links to social media profiles—pulls information from various online sources on topics, businesses, and people. Such a platform created by the Google algorithm, no less, improves one’s internet credentials multifold.
Baid found a few dozen more profiles with the same modus operandi. Blockbuster KGF: Chapter 2, for instance, was ridden with fake credits.
In any case, acting isn’t the only area these credential-hoarders target. Production management, sound, music, and other areas are all fair game. The pattern repeats itself across several movies.
“(This) led me to a whole new world of how so many young Indian men from small towns are gaming the system to...
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