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What if ‘Harry Potter’ was set in Varanasi…

Digital artist Gokul Pillai developed alternate versions of the characters with AI

Published 13.06.23, 09:18 AM

Image courtesy: @withgokul/Instagram

If your heart skips a beat every time something remotely related to the Potterverse happens, you need to see digital artist Gokul Pillai’s homage to the franchise.

Pillai’s used AI to create a unique crossover of the most iconic faces from the Harry Potter films, and alternate versions of themselves on the holy banks of Varanasi. The pictures don’t just comprise a gamchha-clad Harry, but a rudraksha-wielding Dobby, Snape who dons a shawl and a sadhu-esq Dumbledore. The pictures look right out of his own imagined spin-off, Harry Potter and the Mystical Ghats of Varanasi!

— Vedant Karia

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What if ‘Harry Potter’ was set in Varanasi…

Digital artist Gokul Pillai developed alternate versions of the characters with AI