People in Chennai noticed Albert Serrato in a mall and thought he was Robert Downey Jr.

Sir is Robert Downing Jr in #India .. cos I just met and no-one is believing that it was him.. @RajeevMasand .. @RobertDowneyJrpic.twitter.com/ICpuyMBj2S - Sumit Sanghvi (@coolsumit777) December 14, 2016

Robert Downey jr. Is in Chennai !!!!

Why am i not in Chennai - feeling miserable - Azmaan (@exe_azee) December 15, 2016

Saw a news that He came to chennai... just madly wanna take a selfie with him @RobertDowneyJr - Abdul Kareem (@connecttokareem) December 15, 2016

Someone in Phoenix MarketCity's (Chennai) social media team thought @RobertDowneyJr was there, amidst a cyclone! And even posed for pics :-O pic.twitter.com/VG2FlWNIlC - Hemanth Kumar C R (@crhemanth) December 15, 2016

So Robert Downey Jr was in chennai Phoenix mall and i came to know this after he left... That is so.. - Dependant (@AmGunnerBoy) December 15, 2016

Is this you? You've got so much fan base in Chennai, you've no idea @RobertDowneyJrhttps://t.co/Ke3JgYm64K - Cersei Lannister (@kir_thi) December 15, 2016

Is there by any chance @RobertDowneyJr is in Chennai, India??? - Anand Guruswamy (@andyguruswamy) December 14, 2016

An excited day lucky to meet a great Robert Downey jr in our chennai pic.twitter.com/HQLTHOACXI - subramanian (@bala85subu) December 15, 2016

@RobertDowneyJr can you confirm if this was you. It's going viral that you are in Chennai, India. He looks like for body double... pic.twitter.com/bmn4EafCfm - Sankaranand (@sankaranand) December 15, 2016

Guys pipe down it wasn't @RobertDowneyJr in chennai , it was Albert Serrato whose also an actor who resembles the iron man. - NRK (@nyshawnn) December 16, 2016

Apparently someone who looks like @RobertDowneyJr is going around in Chennai and places like @pmcchennai are claiming it's the real one #fb - Lakshmi Narayanan (@_glnarayanan) December 14, 2016

All those of you feeling miserable that you weren't in Chennai when Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr was apparently strolling through malls and clicking selfies with fans, here's something that'll cheer you up. 'Iron Man' wasn't in India and the pictures are all lies.OK, not total lies - people did post pictures of themselves next to someone who looked astonishingly like the actor but that's just it. The man in the pictures is actually actor and director Albert Serrato. We repeat, not Robert Downey Jr but a lookalike.The whole thing started when people in Chennai noticed Mr Serrato in a mall on December 14 and began taking and pictures with him. Meanwhile, others on social media got excited by the news and soon Twitter was flooded with posts on Iron Man's supposed visit to Chennai.Even the mall and shops there began posting about the proud moment.Sorry, to break it to you guys, but it was just his doppelganger. Tweeple realized soon enough and tweeted back.If the pictures aren't proof enough, The Hindu even spoke to the staff at the hotel where Mr Serrato was staying. "We are not sure if it's really him but if it is he's unassuming. He came in a Tempo Traveller with a bunch of his friends," Nina Reddy, Joint Managing Director of Savera, told The Hindu . They later reportedly checked his passport details and confirmed it wasn't The Avengers actor at all.If only Sherlock was here, this whole drama wouldn't have happened.