Calling it “absolute delightful mayhem”, Adah Sharma jumped headfirst into the madness of Mumbai Comic Con 2026 during a special shoot with HT City — and honestly, the chaos seemed tailor-made for her.
Between superheroes posing dramatically, anime fans carrying handmade weapons, Jokers with painted smiles and cosplayers surviving on “six hours of makeup and no hydration”, Sharma looked less like a guest and more like someone who had accidentally escaped from a fictional universe herself.
“People dressed as superheroes, villains, anime characters, creatures I still haven’t scientifically identified,” she says, laughing as she recalls the frenzy around her.
A huge fan of The Big Bang Theory, Sharma says she had imagined Comic Con culture in a certain way, but Mumbai’s desi madness made it far more entertaining.
“I saw Shaktimaan adjusting an Arab Spider-Man’s mask. There was Champak and Wonder Woman in the same frame. I was super impressed,” she says.
What the actor loved most, however, was how seriously people took their fandoms — without taking themselves seriously at all.
“Whether it was anime, Indian superheroes, gaming or comics, everyone was fully committed. Nobody was pretending to be cool. People were just passionately themselves,” she says, giving Mumbai’s Comic Con “11 Infinity Stones out of 10”.
And while there were plenty of superheroes walking around, Sharma insists her all-time favourite remains Hanuman.
“He has everything — strength, humility, devotion, courage, wisdom and zero need to show off. Ultimate powerful-but-grounded energy,” she says.
Spotting Hanuman figurines at the venue unexpectedly reminded her of shooting 1920.
“For those who’ve seen 1920, they’ll know the Hanuman Chalisa reference. It reminded me of that girl shooting the film with so many dreams and now getting to live them,” she says.
Given her wildly unpredictable Instagram personality, it’s hardly surprising that Sharma already has an entire superhero origin story ready for herself.
If there were an animated version of Adah Sharma, she says, her superpower would simply be “confusing villains”.
“She’d pull out a flute, befriend stray cats, disappear into smoke and then return only to convince the villain he has magnesium deficiency,” she says with complete seriousness — or at least what passes for seriousness in the Adah Sharma universe.
