Dev Patel has “heard all about” the lookalike contest he impressed.
On the Purple Sea Movie Competition in Saudi Arabia, Patel, 34, spoke with Variety concerning the Dev Patel lookalike contest at Dolores Park in San Francisco on Nov. 10.
“I’m stunned greater than 5 individuals confirmed up,” the Slumdog Millionaire star stated. “I used to be fairly overwhelmed by it and really touched.”
Jaipreet Hundal
“I additionally gotta say that I feel many of the males who confirmed up had been much more good-looking and certified than I’m. I feel I’d have misplaced at my very own lookalike contest, for positive,” Patel added.
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The occasion — which is one in all many superstar lookalike competitions to have taken place since October’s viral Timothée Chalamet contest — was hosted by Sitara Bellam, 26, and Tasnim Khandakar, 27, stories NBC News.
“I used to be genuinely blown away by the group and the curiosity within the occasion,” Bellam instructed NBC Information of the competitors, which reportedly drew a whole bunch of individuals. She instructed the outlet that she was “actually excited” the occasion, which she deliberate “on a whim as a joke” and promoted with “a single flier up in Berkeley,” was “capable of middle and rejoice brown / South Asian males.”
Jaipreet Hundal
Patel instructed Selection that he was “shocked on the sheer quantity of those who confirmed up” and that he thought the competition was “actually wonderful.”
The winner of the doppelgänger contest, 25-year-old Jaipreet Hundal from San Jose, acquired an enormous $50 test, a “Monkey Man” statue and a bouquet of flowers, in line with NBC Information.
“Shoutout to all of the Dev Patel lookalikes,” Hundal stated in a speech following his win. “If the actual Dev Patel reveals up, I don’t know who would win, me or him.”
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In contrast to Chalamet, 28, who crashed his personal competitors and brought about a frenzy, Patel was a no-show at his namesake occasion. Nonetheless, Patel thinks the lookalike contest was a strategy to highlight variety.
“Hopefully, I’m simply the gateway to this occurring to all types of sensible actors of various races and genders,” the Monkey Man director stated. “It was refreshing to see a group come collectively like that and, hey, if there may be ever a second the place I may be related to some type of laughter and pleasure, it’s nice. It’s all good.”
Patel’s subsequent movie, Rabbit Trap, will premiere on the 2025 Sundance Movie Competition.
