In pictures: Look who turned up to wish My Kolkata a happy birthday!
From Lionel Messi and Taylor Swift to Barack Obama, celebs descend on the City of Joy courtesy AI
By
Priyam Marik |
Published 25.08.23, 02:08 PM
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King Charles, Lionel Messi, Benedict Cumberbatch and more were in town (at least artificially!) to raise a double toast — to Kolkata on the 333rd anniversary of the advent of Job Charnock, the city's unofficial founder, on its shores and to My Kolkata on the eve of its second birthday
Images: Midjourney
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Barack Obama mingles with locals at a pub in Chandni Chowk, pleasantly surprised to find many Kolkatans agree that the US has been doomed since 2016
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Taking a detour from her Eras Tour, Taylor Swift lands up on the Howrah Bridge and runs through her greatest hits while gazing at the Ganga
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Used to operating in the tightest of spaces, Lionel Messi wriggles his way through a crowd of admirers in Sovabazar, all the while scanning a good place for the closest thing to a maté
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King Charles looks amazed and puzzled in equal parts while examining the exhibitions at the Indian Museum and secretly wondering why they were never taken to London
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Usain Bolt puts on a show at Salt Lake’s Yuba Bharati Krirangan by running faster than the average Metro-chasing college student
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Bow Barracks briefly dazzles Benedict Cumberbatch before the rumours of a nearby crime turn him into the latest Byomkesh
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Malala Yousafzai ends up fronting a parade at Park Circus without ever realising what the parade is about
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Roger Federer glides his way through College Street and eventually gets his hands on a copy of ‘How to be Eternally Charming’
