Performance of magic is all about making impossible to possible. So magicians make the impossible seemingly possible. We went to Jadugar Anand’s Magic Show at Town hall, Bangalore last week end of April 2010. I booked tickets thru http://www.limata.com/. Tickets are ranging from Rs 100 to Rs 300. Daily two shows at 4pm and 7pm.
The show started off with a narration on how Anand became a magician. He has 4 Guinness World Records on his name!. First show was about explaining about great magicians in the world using a big book. When they showed the book for the first time there is no magician photo from India. They turned pages again for the second time, this time Anand appeared himself and came out of the book.
He started with simple magic tricks like getting birds out of nothing, changing colors of flowers, etc. In many other tricks group of people or coming out of different objects in a surprise. We were trying to get into the bottom of the tricks and tried to watch closer for any visibility of a trapdoor or the sort, when suddenly, as if reading audience mind, Anand said with a “Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a Government building and we are not even allowed to hit a nail into the wall, so forget about cutting holes into the stage.
In between young girls are dancing between different sets of tricks and in that time Anand is changing his dress and coming back to the stage with next set of tricks. He called for a volunteer in the audience to assist him for a few other tricks. A girl went on to the stage to help. He mesmerized her and he played a magic trick of inserting a sword right through her neck. Then, he played another interesting trick of levitating her against the gravitational force in the free space. Both of these tricks were carried out awesomely, and as expected, the girl was safe and sound as before!
There were some theme magic tricks, He took us to the olden days when pallaki/palanquins are used for travel. Around 15 persons came out of the empty palanquin in no time. He also played a drama on the corruption. In that they showcased a magic where, Baratha matha disappearing and appearing again based on the person opening a pyramid type object.
He also played some tricks of great American and Russian magicians giving credits to them. Cutting a man using electric saw is one among them. He also escaped from heavily locked box in fraction of seconds. He made a huge replica of the Statue of Liberty to disappear right in front of our eyes! All the above tricks were carried out awesomely.
When he came down from the stage to the audience once, all children went to have shake hand with him. After this, he demonstrated conjuring of a rabbit from an empty hat, and suddenly, conjured a huge elephant out of thin air! Pretty much impressive. Elephant just walked down from the stage, walked thru audience and out!
You know Bangalore software industry… May be he also kept that in mind. He said, to attract crowd he is creating different magic tricks thru out his magical life. This time he created a magic using the available latest technologies. He brought a big empty box and few videos are projected in the front side of the box. When the Videos are playing, he played magic tricks like few persons are coming out from the video to the stage. And Anand went inside the video from the stage etc. photos of few magic tricks are as below.
The show was played for almost 9000 seconds (as advertized). On the whole, I was quite a lot impressed with the show.
Vedam is a vellage near Srikalahasti in Chitoor district. It is around 6km drive from Kalahasti. There is a famous temple for Sri Kalika mata in this village. Many devotees visit this temple during Tuesdays and fridays to have their diparadhana puja. During this puja devotees lit lamps on a lemon base.
Performance of magic is all about making impossible to possible. So magicians make the impossible seemingly possible. We went to Jadugar Anand’s Magic Show at Town hall, Bangalore last week end of April 2010. I booked tickets thru http://www.limata.com/. Tickets are ranging from Rs 100 to Rs 300. Daily two shows at 4pm and 7pm.
In between young girls are dancing between different sets of tricks and in that time Anand is changing his dress and coming back to the stage with next set of tricks. He called for a volunteer in the audience to assist him for a few other tricks. A girl went on to the stage to help. He mesmerized her and he played a magic trick of inserting a sword right through her neck. Then, he played another interesting trick of levitating her against the gravitational force in the free space. Both of these tricks were carried out awesomely, and as expected, the girl was safe and sound as before! 
We booked a cab and started from Srikalahasti in the morning Via Tirupati, Puttoor. Our plan is to visit Vepanjeri (Near Chitoor) and then to go Kanipakam from there. Vepamjeri is near Gangadhara Nellore and Chitoor which has Asta Lakshmi Temple and Dasavatara temple. Visited Venupopala swami temple in Karvetnagaram, which is on the way to reach Vepamjeri from Puttoor. This is one of the famous temples of historical importance in this district.
According to legend about Ardhagiri, during Tretayuga, Hanuman brought Sanjeeva Parvatham in order to save Lakshmana during a war when Lakshmana fell unconscious. During the journey, half of Sanjeeva Parvatham fell, and the place where it landed came is known as Aragonda. Aragonda, initially is called as Arakonda (In Telugu language, "Ara" (sounds A'raw)means 'Half' and "Konda" (sounds Kon'Da) means Hill or Mountain). With the time, the people changed their way of pronouncing this word "Arakonda" as "Aragonda" which is now the name of the village under this hill. This hill is famous with name "Ardhagiri" (Ardha means Half and Ge'ree means mountain). In Ardhagiri, it is believed that Sanjeevaraya Pushkarini (pond containing the holy water) never gets dried nor spoiled, even when kept for long periods of time. When devotees drink this theertham (or holy water) from the Sanjeevaraya Pushkarini, all types of diseases are getting cured. We completed our Darshan here very quickly as they was not much crowd on that day. We took some theertham in a can for home.
After the Fort visit, we went to Siripuram Golden Temple. Mobile Phones or any other electronic devices are not allowed inside the temple. You need to walk thru big Star shaped path to reach Golden Temple. The Temple was really beautiful with Lightings around it. And the Shadow of the Golden Temple (Elephants, Pillars etc) in the Small artificial lake surrounding it should not be missed. But one thing I did not like is the high publicity of the ‘Amma’ inside the temple. Check Some photos of the Temple here.
Goddess Chengalamma Parameswari manifested herself in the village of Sullurpeta on the Kolkata-Chennai highway and the temple for her was built on the bank of the Kanlangi River. History tells us that chengalamma idol was found in the river by few boys who were swimming and they brought it to the current location during the fourth or fifth centuries. People also refer to her as the village goddess “Tenkali”. With the passage of time, she is being worshipped regularly by devotees as Chengalamma. Devotees turn up in large number to witness “Chengalamma Jatara” (fair).
Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary is popular for the largest habitats for pelicans in Southeast Asia, It is home to many other native as well as migratory birds. Some of the readily seen birds of the Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary are Babblers, Pelicans, Flamingos, Open Billed Stork, Coot, Night Heron and Waders. Apart from housing some of the rarest species of the avian population, the Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary is home to many mammals like jackals, slender loris and reptiles like monitor lizard, tortoises and snakes. There are some huts and view points along the Sanctuary to view the birds peacefully.
This Jan1st we visited Great Bombay Circus in Bangalore. This is back in Bangalore after 38 years at the Palace Grounds opposite the TV Tower in J.C. Nagar. They have 3 shows daily @1 pm, 4 pm and 7 pm and available till 22nd Jan 2011. Ticket costs range from 40/- to 250/-
