The Dev Patel competition was organized by friends Sitara Bellam, Tasnim Khandakar and Sahana Rangarajan. The plan was to host a Robert Pattinson lookalike contest, but they said they changed their minds and swapped to Patel because other recent contests tended to focus on white actors.

More than 600 people gathered at Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco on Sunday to catch a sneak peek at British movie star Dev Patel — or at least 19 people who kind of look like him. For nearly an hour,

Dozens of Dev Patel doppelgangers gathered in San Francisco Sunday for a look-alike contest. The event, which was held at Dolores Park, was organized by three women who are fans of the "Slumdog Millionaire" actor.

Actor Dev Patel might be in the UK right now, but many were fooled – if only for a second – by the impressive lookalikes who appeared at Mission Dolores Park, in San Francisco, at the weekend. In what was termed the “most San Francisco election of them all” by a local newspaper,