Mumbai, India — In an entertainment industry racing toward AI filters, deepfake avatars and one-tap generative art, one Mumbai-born studio has done the improbable: it has made the human hand the most sought-after act at India's biggest weddings, corporate town-halls and destination celebrations. That studio is Creative Caricature Club — and the artist-entrepreneur behind it is Ritesh Gupta.
Over the last decade, Creative Caricature Club (CCC) has grown from a single artist working weekend birthday parties in Mumbai's suburbs into a pan-India live caricature studio with 500+ events delivered across 30+ cities and multiple international destinations, including the UAE, Thailand, Sri Lanka, the UK and Italy. Every artwork the studio produces at an event is drawn by a human artist, in real time, in front of the guest — a rare, deliberately un-automated promise in an industry that has begun to feel synthetic.
Full profile at https://creativecaricatureclub.com. The Idea: A Live Booth That Turns Guests Into Art.
Weddings, sangeets, receptions, mehendis, corporate town-halls, product launches, birthday parties, milestone anniversaries, baby showers, housewarmings, alumni meets, retirement parties, brand activations, trade shows and school events — the guest list changes, but the human problem does not. Hosts spend crores on décor, food and photography, and then watch their guests spend the evening on their phones.
Ritesh Gupta's insight was simple. Give guests a reason to look up, laugh out loud and take home a keepsake nobody else has.
A live caricature booth does exactly that. In two to five minutes, an artist studies a guest's face, exaggerates the character in it — the smile, the hair, the spectacles, the wedding lehenga, the corporate lanyard — and hands over a framed, signed, one-of-one artwork.
The guest posts it, tags the host, shows the office on Monday. The booth becomes the event's most photographed corner.
"People remember how an event made them feel, not how expensive the centrepiece was," says Ritesh Gupta, Founder of Creative Caricature Club. "A live caricature freezes that feeling on paper.
It is the only souvenir at a wedding that is drawn of the guest, for the guest, in front of the guest. That intimacy is what we sell — and no algorithm has figured out how to fake it." The Founder: Ritesh Gupta is a professional caricaturist, illustrator and event-experience entrepreneur based in Mumbai.