Concept: Kalighat (1890s Calcutta satirical painting) applied to 2026 urban types

Brief: In 1890s Calcutta, painters near the Kalighat temple sold quick, bold watercolours to pilgrims, and many of them poked fun at the city's new rich: the "babu" and his borrowed fashions. I found four of these public-domain paintings at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CC0) and the Wellcome Collection (Public Domain Mark) and built them into a custom Recraft V4 Style, Kalighat Babu (1890 Calcutta). Then I pointed that 130-year-old satire at today's babus: the selfie, the gym mirror, the delivery rider, the ring light and the Sunday video call with grandmother. Every plate keeps the originals' flat colour, sweeping brush outlines and hand-lettered captions, and the Style letters its own titles. The series is ten plates plus a 40-second mock ad, "NEW BABU: since 1890, still posing." Recraft project: https://www.recraft.ai/project/4dabf2c2-068d-487b-903a-0d47fcfb6456

Recraft Style: https://www.recraft.ai/styles/2ce5ec14-0620-4aea-801f-813f78e56775