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“We were bored,” Mehra wrote. “Mike started flexing his four arms against the elevator mirror. Anjali pulled out a potli bag of bindis and started placing them on his knuckles. By the time maintenance got us out, we had storyboarded ten shots.”

Mehra was stuck for four hours at a comic-con afterparty with two cosplayers: Mike "The Crusher" Delfino, a professional wrestler known for his spot-on Goro prosthetics, and Anjali Kumari, a Vogue-featured model who had just debuted her "Desi Devi" persona—a fusion of Kali, Durga, and modern Instagram influencers.