The viral ChatGPT 1980s AI trend is completely taking over social media, with everyone from everyday users to A-list Bollywood actors and politicians transforming their modern photos into vintage, golden-era masterpieces. .
By uploading a standard image to ChatGPT and requesting a retro makeover, users are getting high-quality reimaginations featuring dramatic hairstyles, vintage denim, classic film-grain filters, and iconic 80s Bollywood hero and heroine aesthetics.
Parineeti Chopra & Raghav Chadha shared the couple’s portrait oozing classic vintage Bollywood glamour, jokingly asking her husband why they couldn’t have met the moment they were born
The actor-politician Ravi Kishan broke the internet by showing off a dapper 1980s hero look complete with flowing long hair and vibrant retro styles.
Kiara Advani & Sidharth Malhotra reimagined as a striking retro film duo posing in vintage aesthetics. Personalities like Shruti Haasan, Abhay Verma (who channelled an all-denim look), Nushrratt Bharuccha, and Ameesha Patel have rapidly jumped onto the bandwagon.
Will the trend last? Veteran filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt doesn’t think so. “It’s a fad. And fads don’t linger. Also , the 1980s was not a particularly chic or aesthetic era. The charm wears thin.”
Ram Gopal Varma is discernibly annoyed by the trend. “I don’t think people have much to do these days. The phone has taken over from sex and cinema as the no.1 entertainment.”
