Saransh Das

“In eighth grade, I was awestruck by the magic displayed by Dynamo in his show called, ‘Dynamo: Magician Impossible’, airing on History TV18. The show was inspiring, because a part of the money they made was donated for cancer patients. I started to analyse the logic behind his tricks. I got books  to understand the science behind magic tricks. Gradually, I started to showcase miniature tricks which were not interesting to the audience since it was common. I lost my enthusiasm, but didn't give up. 

I used social media and my reach graph slowly sped up. While I was starting out and looking for a LIVE audience, I’d credit my school for arranging stage shows for me since the seventh grade. Soon, I got offers and did free shows for institutions like FIITJEE and Aakash. My motto was to spread happiness among people. 

My IG posts started attracting international magicians and I kept posting and tagging them! One day, Dynamo- my role model- replied  and asked me to join ‘MAGICIANS ON BREAK’. It is an international community, consisting of the best budding magicians.The world has beautiful magic that we are unaware of and my aim is to bring such magic to my nation. 

Opportunities at LPU made me competitive. It has talent clubs where students have to apply, unlike in my case, where clubs wanted me to sign in for a year and perform at their events. It was a dream when an audience of 3-5k turned up for one of my shows. Recently, I represented Bangladesh for ‘One World’ competition and bagged the third place and won Rs. 15,000/-.

During this lockdown, I came up with an idea of putting up an International-Collab-Magic video on Instagram and it gained a lot of love within a few days. I did an interview with Kalinga TV and also went live on their Facebook page with 31k viewers.

 My advice for the upcoming magicians like myself is,1)Never reveal the secret behind your magic, 2)Practice numerous times in front of a mirror before performing before an audience, 3)Never interrupt a fellow magician in between their performance.

I hope I fulfil the eighth grader Saransh’s dream of performing unseen innovative magic on India’s Got Talent.”- Saransh Das