Actors,Director,Film maker,Marketing whiz,Music company owner...All transfixed as Seal performed.This is one artist,who has caught a bullet fired at him with his teeth...He carries on..While holding on to a day time job in a company.
Any support to him will be a phenomenal contribution to keep this work alive in its land of birth..Thanks Mr. Seal for making our evening.Hope you like the pix.
We were close to him...Ready to catch him...
I have a feeling,thats what he wanted...
The needle popped from the .....Eye !
The stage was set on the Bhawanipore terrace.
Friends were there,so were some whom I was meeting for the first time.
Bikram Ghosh,whom I had heard of and seen on hoardings in Calcutta was there with his wife Jaya.
I had worked with Jaya in my first Bangla film a few years back.
My chat with Bikram was insightful.
I got a peek into the maverick world of a much travelled,internationaly acclaimed virtuoso,who a few years back encountered the dilemna of ... What next,after years of playing with Ravi Shankar !
But he too like the rest of us had not expected what Prince Seal,our "Blaine"... wove around us !
After a hard days work in Cal,good friend Ringo,Suman and I trooped down to Saurav's for a Bangla meal...
What awaited us,was something we had never ever seen in real life.
It was Magician Prince Seal !
For the better part of the 45 mins we were there,he left us dumb struck...
An exponent of close quarters Magic...He stood less than a feet away,prim and proper with a razor sharp moustache...Seal left us giggling ,wide eyed and embarassed with his dexterity and calm!
Cards were guessed,coins flew out of OUR HANDS,a glass next to my plate dissapeared...
It was a David Blaine..in Cal.
We wanted more..and more people to see him..and feel stupid as we were feeling. So we confimed a performance on Suman's terrace at Bhowanipore!
