Participants of Star One's "India's Magic Star" - With Spl.Photos of Contestants

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Anchal Girdharilal Kumawat

A small town girl, Anchal was exposed to magic only via her over enthusiastic father. Her father is a mining agent and her mother is an electrical engineer. As a hobby her father started collecting magic props, and soon this hobby turned into passion and so much so that his daughter, Anchal started playing with these props at the age of 3 instead of normal kid toys. And then as fate would have it, she started performing shows first traveling with her dad on a bike and doing shows in small towns and slowly moving towards small stage and then bigger crowds, today Anchal does almost 400-500 shows a year.

After completing her schooling, Anchal currently is juggling with her academics and career. Through the year and she performs 2-3 shows every single day and attends college for two months. What excites her the most is the fact that she is kind of leading a secret identity life, where everyone in her college knows that there is a Jadugar Anchal; however no one knows that the girl amongst them is that same person.

Her performances are very loud and she has a very different way of communicating with her audience. She preaches the lesson of national integration through all her performances. All of nautanki and drama, she brings to this show a great persona. Our very own, 17 year old Rakhi Sawant!

Born: February 22, 1993. Bajor (Rajasthan)
Performs: Stage Illusion
Based in: Udaipur, India
Education: Second Year student pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree

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Atul Mahadeo Patil

Atul started his magic shows at the age of 7 and his sister Dhanlaxmi was his first assistant. Since then, he has come a long way. He didn’t go through any formal training and it’s all a result of persistent practice and hard work. He believed in developing his own tricks and illusions. He made equipments for umbrella production, candle production, dove production etc. He is also known for his unique style of presentation wherein his tricks are embedded into themes like Rodeo, Circus, Aladin and Mafia based themes. He pays a lot of attention to script development too.

He has been part of many television shows like Jadoo, Khul Ja Sim Sim , Lycra MTV awards etc. Lance Burton and David Copperfield, are two magician he likes to watch. Atul truly believes that Indian magicians are at par with international magicians and can produce the same illusions as well as better illusions than the ones seen so far. He has in fact developed his own version of Kevin James cutting, Water Levitation.

Born: November 3, 1961. Mumbai
Performs: Illusions, Conjuring, Stage,
Based in: Mumbai, India
Education: N.C.T.B.T. in Electrical Engineering, Baghu Bhai College, Mumbai

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Kruti Parekh

A regular Mumbai girl, Kruti looks at India’s Magic Star as a mode of getting across to larger audiences. She is here to entertain and to have fun.

Kruti has been guided by renowned magician William Zambago. Kruti has performed many shows nationally and internationally for channels such as BBC, KTV in South Africa, NHK in Japan as well as Star TV, Zee TV and Sony Entertainment Television in India. She comes from a completely non-magician family and the only Magician she looks up to is David Copperfield, more for his style than his skill. During her shows Kruti likes to use customized props in order to maintain a style of her own. She calls magic her very breath and cannot live without it. Initially when she started performing, a lot of people mocked her but without caring at all about them, she confidently carried on what she loved doing so much. Today she has about 20 years of experience behind her, many many shows already done and many more to come.

Kruti aspires to be the best in whatever she does. She want to leave a mark and be known as an icon in whatever it is she may be doing in the next ten years.

Born: June 29, 1984. Kolkata
Performs: Stage Illusions, Conjuring, Close Up
Based in: Mumbai
Education: I.T. Engineer, D.J. Sanghavi College, Mumbai

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Rajesh Kumar

This young 17 years old boy from the city of Ludhiana, is basically a street magician who has never been trained under anyone. But the charm and love for the art has made Rajesh his own teacher. His knowledge of magic comes from the internet and other such sources. He is loved and supported by his family to become a renowned magician one day. He is very close to his mother in particular and gets his performing strength from her.


Being from small town doesn’t make Rajesh shy or introverted. One describes himself as a very naughty guy who is fun and smart enough to take a challenge from anyone. Extremely confident, talkative and he has a child like character to him, he surely can woo the audiences with his linguistic and magical skills once on stage.


Born: January 1, 1993. Bhagalpur (Bihar)
Performs: Street Magic, Close-up
Based in: Ludhiana, India
Education: Non Medical Science Student at Springdale Senior Public School, Ludhiana

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David Abhijit Nobo

Born and brought up in Kolkata, David thoroughly enjoys his magic and is completely dedicated to making a career from it. He dropped out of college in first year and changed his streams from Science to Commerce and finally to Arts during school. He was not keen on giving his twelfth board exams and during one instance had locked himself up in the bathroom just before an examination. While everyone was looking for him, he was practicing magic in front of the bathroom mirror! David enjoys performing escape acts and is daring by nature.

He doesn’t speak much at first, is quiet and shy but is proficient in English and polished in his speech. His Hindi is relatively poor though. A long haired, rockstar looking guy, David has a decent physique and would be able to carry off physically challenging illusions.

He started his magic journey with small card tricks that he bought from a local fair, he has grown several times bigger now but is still firmly rooted.

David has learned his magic by watching a show on Doordarshan called Variety-Variety and other such shows. He produces exotic birds from nowhere, manipulates fire, defies gravity through levitation and keeps you on the edge of your seat with his escape acts.

David has performed for the Royal family of Bhutan and says that for him, India’s Magic Star is going to be the biggest thing in India about magic. IMS is going to revolutionize the Indian magic scenario. He is pining to perform big illusions on the IMS stage. If he can end up in the top 4, it will be the biggest achievement for him.

Name: David Abhijit Nobo
Born: March 23, 1988. Kolkata
Performs: Conjuring, Close-Up, Escapism
Based in: Mumbai
Education: Studied upto Standard 12 at St. Judes High School, Kolkata