Magician Anand

ANAND THE JADUGAR

The zig-zag trick being performed at the Jadugar Anand's Magic Show in Coimbatore.

Performance of magic is all about perception. Making impossible possible is impossible. So magicians make the impossible seemingly possible. I had started writing this post nearly a month back, but managed to finish it today. I had gone with my family members to Jadugar Anand’s Magic Show at Kamarajar Arangam near Royapettah, soon after returning from Harish’s new house. Before going inside, I didn’t think much of it. The show was supposed to start by 10 minutes after we parked the car, and even that time the parking lot was near empty! Tickets ranged from Rs.50 to Rs.500, but we decided to settle with a Rs.300 ticket each. We went inside and took our places right in the middle of the 5th row or so.
The show started 15 minutes late and till then music was being played with music reaching nearly the decibel level of an aircraft taking off! Just before it started, I turned around and gasped in surprised that the auditorium was near houseful!!! It started off with a narration on how Anand became a magician. She said that he is the “World’s Fastest Magician” (Don’t ask me what she meant by it, coz I really don’t know!) and went on to say that he holds 3 Guinness World Records!

Jadugar Anand is the biggest name amongst Magicians of India. The largest troop with the biggest infrastructure, and maximum success. One of the only few magic shows in India, who travel on constant basis, performing eleven months a year. No other magician can match the lightings, stage set-up, illusion size and presentation. The only Indian Magician who has performed successfully in almost every city of India from North to South, with an amazing success, which remains a dream for any other magician. Jadugar Anand is the most trusted and revered name in the Magic Field of India. Along with his son Akash, Jadugar Anand's show is a perfect blend of Illusion show and Escapology. Jadugar Anand is certainly the No.1 Magician of India.

The ongoing election wizardry seems to have cast an evil spell on the flourishing trade of a prominent magician because his fellow practitioner is trying a sleight of hand in the arena of politics. This is how the story goes:
'Jadugar' Anand had scheduled a magic show in his hometown Jabalpur recently. But it was stripped of its charm when the district administration started pulling down the posters and banners as well as the large cut-outs of the magician, on the grounds that these were influencing the election process!
The action was taken as another magician, 'Jadugar' S K Nigam, is contesting for the Lok Sabha on a Ajey Bharat Party ticket. The ABP was founded by the Beatles's former guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Unaware of the fact that 'Jadugar' Anand was to be giving his shows in the town for around two weeks, the district collector issued orders for pulling down and confiscating all posters with 'jadugar' written on them -- such claims, you see, are against the Election Commission's Model Code of Conduct.
Anand said he tried to convince the authorities that his posters did not violate the EC restrictions, but in vain... He is an unhappy man today, knowing not how to attract people to his shows without posters, banners and cutouts.
He claimed that if was allowed to complete his performance in Jabalpur, he would have completed 23,000 shows and found a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.