Having performed magic ever since she was 5, Kruti has now appeared on reality shows, done massive illusions on stage, and is even using magic as a medium for social good – something that even garnered the attention of the United Nations. Watch her magical journey as she struggled to decipher tricks that no one was willing to teach her, and turn them into award-winning acts.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 My first encounter with magic when I was five years old,
00:07 I happened to go to [INAUDIBLE] and I saw a magic show
00:11 for roadside magician.
00:13 And I was really intrigued because that was the first time
00:17 I was seeing magic.
00:18 I just ran up to the magician after the show,
00:20 and I said, can you please teach me?
00:22 So sometimes kids just say anything,
00:25 so he thought I'm just talking nonsense.
00:27 Just to get rid of me, he taught me two tricks.
00:30 And I learned it so well, so I took two or three of his props
00:33 and started performing there for the audience.
00:36 So the audience loved it, you know, and such a young girl
00:38 performing some magic.
00:39 And they started coming to me and said,
00:41 can I get your autograph?
00:42 Can I get your photograph?
00:43 So I thought, this is so wonderful.
00:45 Like, even if I get full marks in my studies,
00:47 don't take my autograph or picture with me.
00:50 So I think it was the recognition which
00:51 really caught my eye.
00:52 And post that, there was no looking back.
00:54 I think post that, magic really chose me.
00:57 I really wanted to learn magic, but there
01:08 were no avenues at that time.
01:09 We didn't have YouTubes and exposure
01:12 to the international world.
01:13 I was really determined to learn magic,
01:16 and therefore I found out ways.
01:17 So when people used to show me magic,
01:20 I used to always ask them, can you please teach me one trick?
01:23 And they would be like, oh, you're too young to learn it.
01:25 Oh, it's not your cup of tea, et cetera.
01:28 So I would say, OK, fine.
01:29 I'm going to figure out a way.
01:31 And so they would show me a trick,
01:34 and I would try to figure out how it's done,
01:36 and show it back to them and say, you know,
01:37 this is an old trick.
01:38 When I was eight years old, I met with my guru,
01:46 who's Mr. William Zimbago.
01:47 And he taught me the big illusions,
01:49 things like David Copperfield on stage,
01:51 you know, vanishing, your assistants,
01:53 vanishing the Taj Mahal, et cetera.
01:54 I think that was a dream as a child,
01:56 that I want to do such big magics, big stuff, big props,
02:00 needed assistance.
02:01 So I remember my first show at the age of eight
02:04 was at the Bharti Vidya Bhavan in Mumbai with 45 assistants.
02:09 So I'm commanding 45 people around me.
02:12 But after I finished my engineering,
02:14 I had to take a career choice.
02:16 So I did make an effort, rather, to do an engineering job.
02:19 But I really felt that this is not really
02:21 what I am meant to do.
02:23 In a place like India, magic is never
02:27 considered as something where you can earn money.
02:31 I've always wanted to do something different
02:34 and take it to a level wherein I'm
02:36 able to give magic the respect that it really deserves.
02:40 So I started finding out different kind
02:43 of applications of magic, where you can use magic as therapy
02:48 for special children, autistic children, where you can actually
02:51 train them in a fun way with occupational therapy,
02:55 fine motor skills, et cetera.
02:56 So I started finding different applications onto it.
02:59 And I started using magic as my language.
03:01 So I came up with an environmental magic show.
03:03 And I received a United Nations award for the same.
03:06 It's never been easy being a woman in a man's world
03:17 for any profession.
03:18 So it was the same with magic also.
03:20 From learning magic, to being heckled at at events,
03:24 to even being disqualified at an event,
03:27 because they thought that I was not
03:30 good enough to be competing amongst the people, et cetera.
03:34 And they asked me, oh, you're so young.
03:38 You're going to be talking to all of us.
03:40 What is this young girl going to do?
03:42 So I think that's something that I face every day.
03:47 [MUSIC PLAYING]
03:50 What really prevents women from getting into magic
03:55 is also perceived as something supernatural
03:59 by a lot of people.
04:00 There's a lot of black magic kind of thing
04:04 associated with it.
04:05 And a lot of women are kept away from it,
04:08 because it kind of scares people away.
04:15 So my message to all the little girls who
04:17 want to get into the field of magic
04:19 is, please, follow your dreams.
04:22 If you believe in magic, have your sense of wonder with you.
04:26 And no matter whether you choose magic or any other profession,
04:29 know one thing for sure.
04:30 Nothing is impossible.
04:32 And do your best, and God will do the rest.
04:36 (dramatic music)