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Cosplay

Mona Ramavat , Avatar Rising “India Today “ 3/3/2017

Skywrath

The Japanese fan convention of 'cosplay', or costume playing, made inroads into India in 2011 at the first Indian Comic Con in Delhi. Eleven people turned up for the event dressed as comic, animation or gaming characters. "Five years later, that number has grown to a few thousand," says Jatin Verma, founder of Comic Con India. Passionate fans in India are finding new wings (or capes or crafty headgear or swords) for their cosplayer avatars. The winner of a recently held cosplay championship at Delhi, Sameer Bundela, was dressed as Skywrath from Dota 2, while 20-year-old Akhil Macharla of Hyderabad won the fan favourite award for his Daedric armour from Skyrim. The VFX artist decided to construct a costume using fiberglass and resins, and it took him about five months to put together the armour, which weighs 25 kilos. "I turned my bedroom into a workshop. My parents constantly asked me to stop this madness. But when I won the award at the championship, my mother was all teary-eyed," shares Macharla, who will soon represent India at the Indonesia Comic Con.

The Indian cosplayer community is growing steadily, and it is only a matter of time before we start having master classes and cosplay boutiques, with serious cosplayers turning celebrities and charging for appearances at events. "Although cosplaying is currently a rather niche interest in India," says Verma, "over the next couple of years we'll certainly see a surge."