India, Sept. 14 -- After the action figure-making and Studio Ghibli-style portrait trends, Instagram has found a new viral obsession - the Vintage Saree AI edits. This latest craze lets users transform their everyday photos into dreamy portraits that look straight out of a 1990s Bollywood film. Powered by Google Gemini's Nano Banana tool, the edits capture the nostalgia of chiffon sarees, golden-hour lighting, and retro poster-style backdrops.

The results are striking: moody black sarees draped in grainy film textures, chiffon yellows floating against cinematic winds, or even polka-dot white sarees evoking the glamour of Raj Kapoor-era movie posters. With just a photo and the right AI prompt, users are recreating themselves as vintage di...