Navratri 2025: How to turn your dandiya night photos into 90s-style portraits using Gemini AI prompt

Navratri 2025: As India celebrates the vibrant celebrations of Navratri 2025, tech giant Google India is bringing a creative twist to the festivities. The company has shared an AI prompt for its Gemini Nano Banana tool that allows users to transform their Dandiya night photos into vintage 90s-style portraits with artistic lighting and retro vibes.

Google India adds a creative twist to Navratri 2025

Google India introduced the prompt via its official Instagram account, inviting users to recreate their festive memories with a nostalgic aesthetic. The Gemini Nano Banana tool, part of Google’s growing suite of AI image-generation platforms, lets users turn ordinary photos into visually striking artworks in just a few steps.

How to create your 90s-inspired portraits

According to Google, users can follow these steps to create their custom Nano Banana images:

1. Visit gemini.google.com
2. Select Create Images 🍌 and upload a photo
3. Enter the AI prompt: “Using the reference image, add a warm sunlight effect falling beautifully on his face, creating golden highlights. The overall vibe should be retro with a grainy 90s film aesthetic, giving a festive feeling. His outfit, and background details should be inspired by flowers, reflecting its colors, patterns, and mood. Make the flower connection strong in the picture.”
4. Hit submit, and your personalised 90’s-inspired portrait is ready.

The AI-generated images promise a unique combination of retro charm, festive mood lighting, and floral inspiration, making it an exciting addition to the way people share their Navratri memories this year. By blending technology with traditional celebrations, Google India is encouraging users to creatively commemorate the festival while experimenting with AI-powered art.

With Navratri being a festival marked by music, dance, and vibrant colors, this tool offers a modern way for festival-goers to capture the spirit of Dandiya nights in a stylish, nostalgic format, perfect for sharing on social media or keeping as a digital memory.

Check these seven prompts to help you nail the perfect dandiya-inspired AI look for Navratri.

7 AI prompts for creating Navratri dandiya night looks with Gemini Nano Banana:

Festive Full-Length Portrait:

“Generate a full-body portrait of me in a bright red and gold ghagra choli, adorned with sparkling mirror jewellery, holding colourful dandiya sticks, surrounded by a lively garba crowd with twinkling fairy lights and festive decorations.”

Close-Up Celebration Shot:

“Create a close-up portrait of me in a royal blue kurta with delicate embroidery, paired with a vibrant bandhani dupatta and ethnic jewellery, smiling while performing dandiya under lantern-lit skies.”

Cinematic Couple Dance:

“Design a cinematic scene of a couple dancing during dandiya night. The man wears a navy kurta with mirror embroidery and an orange stole, while the woman is dressed in a green-and-yellow bandhani ghagra choli with silver jewellery. Add glowing string lights, decorated temple arches, and motion blur to convey lively movement.”

Artistic Partner Pose:

“Generate an artistic edit of a couple mid-dandiya dance, with me in a cream-and-maroon sherwani and my partner in a coordinating lehenga choli, both illuminated by warm festive lighting.”

Stylised Navratri Ensemble:

“Create a stylised portrait of me wearing a green-and-yellow bandhani lehenga with oxidised silver jewellery, set against a backdrop of colourful rangoli patterns and elaborately decorated temple surroundings.”

Joyful Group Selfie:

“Produce a cheerful group selfie of me with friends, each in traditional attire holding dandiya sticks, captured in warm, golden lighting to recreate the vibrant energy of Navratri nights.”

Dynamic Garba Scene:

“Transform my image into a lively Navratri scene, with me in a mirror-work chaniya choli, dancing in a crowded garba circle while holding bright dandiya sticks, with festive fairy lights glowing in the background.”

How to create Durga Puja stickers for WhatsApp with Gemini:

Launch Gemini and request it to create a sticker-style illustration.

Explain clearly the appearance, posture, background, and artistic style you’d like for Goddess Durga.

Once the image is generated, download it to your device.

You can then share it straight on WhatsApp or add it to your personal sticker library.

Simple, creative, and entirely in your control.

Sample prompts you can use in Gemini Nano Banana

"Generate a 3D-style WhatsApp sticker image of Goddess Durga riding a lion, with glowing ornaments, a festive red background, and the text 'Subho Pujo 2025' written in Bengali-style font. The image should have a transparent or sticker-friendly background."

"Generate a 3D-style minimalist WhatsApp sticker of Goddess Durga’s eyes (Maa Durga’s Chokh), with red alta design and golden crown outline. Transparent background."