Sunday, June 15, 2008

Magic talk!



The CHARMER Jadugar Anand
I expect him to produce a red rose out of nowhere, to welcome me. Sadly, nothing happens. He just smiles, and I take my seat.
Sans the make up and the magician’s glittering garb, it is impossible to associate Jadugar Anand with those mind boggling tricks he performs on the stage. But when he begins talking, his stories and views are as engaging as his shows.
The only son of a Brahmin family in Jabalpur, he has been fascinated with magic ever since he was seven. He recalls being smitten by street performers near his primary school who produced laddoos and jalebis out of nowhere. “I was interested not in the trick, but in the sweets that came to me free of cost. When they moved, I missed them, and decided to get into magic myself. I went in search of magicians, and swamis who claimed to perform ‘divine miracle’.”
In Class II, he entertained classmates by drinking concentrated nitric acid and consuming tube lights.

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