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Ati Uttam!
ANYTHING FROM NOTHING?: Magician, C. Uttam, producing flowers from an empty basket.
CHINTANIPPULA UTTAM is chairman and managing trustee of the Amma Foundation. All of 22, the energetic youth, who is pursuing final year of engineering in Vignan's Engineering College of Guntur, has something magical about him.
He wields a magic wand and has the public spell-bound. On Tuesday, he decided to mesmerise students of Siddhartha Junior College of Arts and Science for a noble cause. It was a charity show and proceeds of the show would go to aid mentally challenged and orphan children who have been taken under the wings of the foundation. The activities of the foundation revolves around badi (school), jagruthi (awareness) and aakruthi (self-employment). ``Magic or any form of entertainment should be aimed at public welfare,'' says the ventriloquist, who had the boys in the auditorium in splits by churning out wacky jokes through his much-popular talking doll.
"Magic is nothing but hath ki safayi (slight of hand). It's all about clever manipulation by swift movement of hands,'' Uttam says, adding that the novel art has fascinated him since his childhood and it has been his strong will to master it that has earned him the title of `Star Magician.' Amazingly, Uttam learnt the art of entertainment without undergoing any formal training in it. All he had to do to reach this stage was to keenly observe established magicians perform on stage, watch their movements and refer voluminous books on magic.
Uttam, who has perfected the art of hypnotising the public and transforming them to a different world, performed his first show in the public in a sleepy village of Srikakulam district some eight years ago.
"It was aimed at warding off superstitions and evoked tremendous response from villagers. It was then I realised that I had set out on the right path with a right mission which I wish to continue till the end.''
"I am basically a zealous social worker who is eager to see a positive change occurring all around. And magic helps me to a great extent in achieving this. Regardless of my professional line in future, this passion will continue to make the world a better place,'' Uttam avows.
By P. Sujatha Varma
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