blatantly copied from The Hindu :-(
http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/23/stories/2005072301420200.htm
" Give me sponsors, and I can make the Taj Mahal disappear", says the young magician.
HUBLI: She flies in the air, makes a car disappear, cuts herself in two, and reduces a five-and-half feet tall man into a boy two-and-half feet tall. She can even drive a car blindfolded and is just 14.
Meet Suhani Shah, who entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's youngest magician when she was seven. She is now mesmerising the residents of Hubli-Dharwad through her magic.
Debut
Ms. Shah's trip along the magic corridor began at the age of seven, when she was studying in the second standard at Mount Carmel School in Ahmedabad.
Her parents arranged for her debut performance at the Thokorbhai Desai Hall in Ahmedabad on October 22, 1997.
"That was the starting point. There has been no looking back after that," she said. She has to her credit more than 4,000 shows in the country and abroad. Ms. Shah aims to make her shows be different from the traditional magic shows.
Apart from performing some 40 illusions on the stage, her shows include sizzling dance numbers performed by professional artistes.
"My show is a three-hour extravaganza packed with entertainment. There are fashion sequences, dances and everything that will keep the audience enraptured. In keeping with the time, I have made the shows more westernised. Even the costumes are different," she said.
And Thursday's show was proof to it.
On Thursday, barring one or two hitches that mostly went unnoticed, Ms. Shah left the audience at the Sawai Gandharva Hall in Deshpande Nagar here spellbound.
Ms. Shah has won several awards. It's no wonder that the All India Magic Association has conferred on her the title of "Jadoopari."
"Give me sponsors and I can make the Taj Mahal disappear," she said confidently. And this teenage magician has pinned her hopes on doing it one day.
8 comments:
When will we, the magicians from India , LEARN to be modest and truthful? Is honesty too much to ask for??
[...] Meet Suhani Shah, who entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's youngest magician when she was seven. [...]
I ask to see a copy of this alleged certificate. I think that the journalists take too much for granted, and believe everything they hear... And that is sad.
It is so easy for the journalist to ask: "Oh really? Wow! Can I see the certificate?"
Sadly, they choose not to.
Nakul
Thank you Nakul for your comment. There are two issues here and sadly for us both of them need a careful looking into.
1) Truth in Journalism
2) Self Promotion by Magicians
While self promotion is necessary for professional magicians when it is done by providing false claims then it does undermine the capabilities of the promoter. And most of the times they do get away with such claims. Perhaps because we don't distrust humans to that extent atleast not as long as their claim is not impeding us in any way.
Ethics in journalism is a topic that has been looked into a lot of time and I don't want to add my 2 cents to the collected wisdom.
Perhaps I should delete this post until I get more concrete evidence. But then again these comments will hold no meaning. And I think the post along with these comments will NOW convey an altogether different meaning.
Thank you Nakul for your comment. There are two issues here and sadly for us both of them need a careful looking into.
1) Truth in Journalism
2) Self Promotion by Magicians
While self promotion is necessary for professional magicians when it is done by providing false claims then it does undermine the capabilities of the promoter. And most of the times they do get away with such claims. Perhaps because we don't distrust humans to that extent atleast not as long as their claim is not impeding us in any way.
Ethics in journalism is a topic that has been looked into a lot of time and I don't want to add my 2 cents to the collected wisdom.
Perhaps I should delete this post until I get more concrete evidence. But then again these comments will hold no meaning. And I think the post along with these comments will NOW convey an altogether different meaning.
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i have seen the show of magician suhani in mumbai and it was simply awesome... SUPERB!!!
thanks nisri for your comment. i never had the opportunity to witness her show but i do hope she is as good as i make her out to be !
Hello,
All you people, instead of going into much details about jounralism etc rather we should appreciate the talent of the person and i have seen her shows too. And shows were really awesome..
thank you abhi for your comment. We are not attacking Suhani here, perhaps she too is following the ones who came before her. I am sure she has a wonderful show and I hope to see it some day.
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