A week of voting was capped off with the most San Francisco election of them all: a Dev Patel lookalike contest.
For a moment, it seemed like Dev Patel himself was parting the sea of people who filled the slopes of Dolores Park on Sunday. A man with windswept brown curls casually emerged onto the makeshift runway, holding a canned cold brew. He raised one hand in greeting and gave the audience a polite nod.
When co-organizer Sitara Bellam made a flier for the contest at 1 a.m. a couple of weeks ago, she intended it as a joke among friends. They had originally wanted to host a Robert Pattinson contest but “I didn’t think that we have enough attractive people in San Francisco,” Bellam said. Plus, she continued, there’s more of a “demographic for Dev” here.
Before the contestants lined up to make their formal pitch to the audience through a neon green bullhorn, they were given a chance to mingle.Pander they did. “Dev Patel is a state of mind,” said some contestants, who admittedly lacked much physical resemblance. Dhruv Vaish makes his pitch to the audience. Photo on Nov. 10, 2024 by Abigail Van Neely.The 20 contestants entered with varying degrees of preparation. Some learned about the event days ago, other hours.
Julianne Uganiza wove through the crowd taking selfies with contestants to send to her friend, a “baddie” who had just broken up with her boyfriend because he “wasn’t meeting her standards.” “My pitch to you is not going to be with words,” Sheth told the crowd. “It will be with dance.” He swept another contestant into a dip, did a split, and, in his final appearance, lifted up the bottom of his blank tank top. The spectators shrieked. It was a tough act to follow, but Hundal did so with his signature nonchalance. Instead of taking clothes off, he slowly zipped up his brown jacket. The crowd began chanting, and the contest had been won.
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