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Sachin Tendulkar thrilled fans by using the ‘Ghibli’ filter on 2011 World Cup photos, blending cricket with Studio Ghibli’s anime style, and shared them with playful captions.
Sachin Tendulkar’s Ghibli-style perspective of India’s 2011 World Cup photos. (@sachin_rt/X)
India cricketing great Sachin Tendulkar once again won the hearts of his fans with his strong social media game on Thursday (March 27). He jumped on the hot trend of putting the ‘Ghibli’ filter on everyday photos by using it on two of the iconic snippets from India’s win in the 2011 World Cup: Tendulkar being lifted on the shoulders by Virat Kohli and other youngsters and his photoshoot afterward in front of the Gateway Of India.
The photos were a rendition of what they could have looked like if Studio Ghibli, a popular Japanese animation (or Anime art) studio, made them. The filters are being helped by Artificial Intelligence chat-bots like ChatGPT and Grok. The studio is known for its hand-drawn animation, detailed backgrounds, and emotionally engaging storytelling and users are engaging with it to see their photos from a different, Anime perspect.
Tendulkar posted the photos with a wordplay typical of his social media account. Check it here:
India beat Sri Lanka in front of a packed Wankhede crowd to lift the 2011 World Cup, their first in 28 years. It ended Tendulkar’s years-long struggle for the elusive title and the team celebrated it with a victory lap.
“The victory lap had one incident when Virat and Yusuf Pathan lifted me, I told them to ensure that I do not fall down,” Tendulkar said on a YouTube show in 2021. “It was not just the Indian team that won the World Cup, it was the entire nation, it is all of us who did it.
“When I saw Kapil Dev lifting the World Cup in 1983, it was an unbelievable experience. I enjoyed it with my friends and I wanted to chase my dream. I decided what may come, I have to focus and chase my dream of lifting the World Cup. In Mumbai at Wankhede, it was just unbelievable, it was the best cricketing day of life. How many times you have the country celebrate, many few things are there which the entire country celebrates,” he added.
