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I have been watching my friends and relatives making animal images in shadows, since my childhood. Even I showed my children, shadows with fingers on our wall at home...dogs, fish and birds. Not more than that! But the video which I saw this morning made me dumbfounded. It will make you too!
If you know the song 'Mile sur mera tumhaara' and had seen the video since our Door Darshan time, you will enjoy this, better! Every picture in the video is shown in the shadows! The shadows are lip sinking with the song's lyrics! Amazing! If you are not familiar with the song, watch the video of the song first and then, this video. It is the second one below this video. Now, let us see the singing shadows first!
The last image of the Four lions, the Emblem of India, and the flying flag, brought tears in my eyes! Beautiful, aren't they? The beautiful rabbit, the Goan with a hat, Balamurali Krishna singing with his hands moving, the mridangam artist playing, the Taj Mahal, the peacock, camel, elephants, people on a boat, North East Indians dancing, I can go on... The video shows the artist playing with his fingers. Needs 100% concentration for doing this, I am sure.
Now, watch the real song:
You know what I did while writing this post now? I opened two windows in my computer, one with the shadow video and another with the song video and watched both frame by frame! I love this song and am never bored of hearing this. I had done a post on this earlier too (here).
I looked out for the name of the artist and got it! His name is Prahlad Acharya. (link). He hails from Udupi (Karnataka), MY home town!
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He was interested in magic from his childhood and learnt magic from Uday Jadugar,. He learnt shadow play and other magics while travelling with him during his shows. The link says:
'Today, the 40-year-old has traveled across the globe, telling stories using shadows. He can perform the Panchatantra tales, Kannada folktales such as the story of Punyakoti, the holy cow who kept her word to a tiger by offering herself to it after she fed her calf.'
I came across another video of this artist, which is also interesting (link)
Now, I came across the Wiki link of Prahlad Acharya! We can know more about him here.
He comes in my 'People whom I admire' list now!
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I have been watching my friends and relatives making animal images in shadows, since my childhood. Even I showed my children, shadows with fingers on our wall at home...dogs, fish and birds. Not more than that! But the video which I saw this morning made me dumbfounded. It will make you too!
If you know the song 'Mile sur mera tumhaara' and had seen the video since our Door Darshan time, you will enjoy this, better! Every picture in the video is shown in the shadows! The shadows are lip sinking with the song's lyrics! Amazing! If you are not familiar with the song, watch the video of the song first and then, this video. It is the second one below this video. Now, let us see the singing shadows first!
The last image of the Four lions, the Emblem of India, and the flying flag, brought tears in my eyes! Beautiful, aren't they? The beautiful rabbit, the Goan with a hat, Balamurali Krishna singing with his hands moving, the mridangam artist playing, the Taj Mahal, the peacock, camel, elephants, people on a boat, North East Indians dancing, I can go on... The video shows the artist playing with his fingers. Needs 100% concentration for doing this, I am sure.
Now, watch the real song:
You know what I did while writing this post now? I opened two windows in my computer, one with the shadow video and another with the song video and watched both frame by frame! I love this song and am never bored of hearing this. I had done a post on this earlier too (here).
I looked out for the name of the artist and got it! His name is Prahlad Acharya. (link). He hails from Udupi (Karnataka), MY home town!
He was interested in magic from his childhood and learnt magic from Uday Jadugar,. He learnt shadow play and other magics while travelling with him during his shows. The link says:
'Today, the 40-year-old has traveled across the globe, telling stories using shadows. He can perform the Panchatantra tales, Kannada folktales such as the story of Punyakoti, the holy cow who kept her word to a tiger by offering herself to it after she fed her calf.'
I came across another video of this artist, which is also interesting (link)
Now, I came across the Wiki link of Prahlad Acharya! We can know more about him here.
He comes in my 'People whom I admire' list now!
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