Azan Makhdoomi, a 26-year-old engineering graduate, is perhaps the alone mentalist in the valley who creates a sense of wonder among his audience through his mind related abilities.
Hailing from Rawalpora Srinagar, Azan who has completed B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering is known for guessing people’s passwords and secret numbers.Aazan used to be a magician first and would entertain the audience while playing tricks with coins and cards. Later on, he switched to being “mentalist” and his shows are generating a lot of amazement among the audience.
Before the lockdown, Aazan visited various cafes, restaurants, and public parks to showcase his talent. Now, due to lockdown, he is mostly on social media wherein he invites people for his mentalism shows and the audience simply looks agape seeing his talent.“I practice reading and influencing skills. I read the body language and expressions of my audience to get an idea about what they are feeling and sometimes even what they are thinking.
Influencing involves implanting thoughts and ideas in someone’s mind without him realising about it," he said. was inspired by two popular performers, Keith Barry and Derren Brown whose videos he used to watch in bulk on YouTube
"I pursued this art since I was 16. In the beginning, it was a bit hard to convince the audience that I only practiced another form of art and not any supernatural thing.”Though he pursued engineering, the family never stopped him from spending time on learning and performing this art also.
Azan managed to balance time with studies and mentalism perfectly.“I started in the year 2011 while watching TV shows like Deception with Keith Berry and decided to learn this art ,gathered all the material including books, DVDs, online lectures to learn and practice this art.
I am still learning this art and I also completed my studies without any problems.”Aazan believes that human beings are capable of doing anything if one has faith and conviction of reaching the goal
He advises youth to work hard and move out of disillusionment and lethargy for achieving their goals.Azan makes a fervent appeal to the local government to provide artists assistance in representing Kashmir at national and international levels.
Aazan Makhdoomi, a 26-year-old engineering graduate, is perhaps the alone mentalist in the valley who creates a sense of wonder among his audience through his mind related abilities.
Hailing from Rawalpora Srinagar, Azan who has completed B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering is known for guessing people’s passwords and secret numbers.Aazan used to be a magician first and would entertain the audience while playing tricks with coins and cards. Later on, he switched to being “mentalist” and his shows are generating a lot of amazement among the audience.
Before the lockdown, Aazan visited various cafes, restaurants, and public parks to showcase his talent. Now, due to lockdown, he is mostly on social media wherein he invites people for his mentalism shows and the audience simply looks agape seeing his talent.“I practice reading and influencing skills. I read the body language and expressions of my audience to get an idea about what they are feeling and sometimes even what they are thinking.
Influencing involves implanting thoughts and ideas in someone’s mind without him realising about it," he said. was inspired by two popular performers, Keith Barry and Derren Brown whose videos he used to watch in bulk on YouTube
"I pursued this art since I was 16. In the beginning, it was a bit hard to convince the audience that I only practiced another form of art and not any supernatural thing.”Though he pursued engineering, the family never stopped him from spending time on learning and performing this art also.
Azan managed to balance time with studies and mentalism perfectly.“I started in the year 2011 while watching TV shows like Deception with Keith Berry and decided to learn this art ,gathered all the material including books, DVDs, online lectures to learn and practice this art without any Mentalism Course
I am still learning this art and I also completed my studies without any problems.”Aazan believes that human beings are capable of doing anything if one has faith and conviction of reaching the goal
He advises youth to work hard and move out of disillusionment and lethargy for achieving their goals.Azan makes a fervent appeal to the local government to provide artists assistance in representing Kashmir at national and international levels.