What happens next is not what it sounded like. When the woman shuts her eyes, 40-year-old Parulekar turns to the husband, rubs his nose, and asks the woman where she felt it. She points to her nose. He then touches the man's forehead. This time, she points to her forehead. "That," says Parulekar, "is the power of marriage."
Parulekar is a married man who can successfully appear to read most minds except his wife's. He can also allegedly bend spoons and unscrew bolts with his mind and as he takes a seat at the restaurant this scorching afternooon, you partly wish he would mentally redirect the AC vents. "Mentalism involves transplanting of thoughts," says the magician and actor, who performed his first show as a mentalist at Matunga's Yashwant Natya Mandir recently. "I want to introduce the performance art to the lay man," he says, who has been performing mentalism shows at corporates for a year.
Titled 'Mind It', the show's brochures showed Parulekar with his fingers at the corners of his eyes, as if he were wishing away a headache. While some audience members eagerly volunteered to be subjects of his illusions, many sank deep into their chairs to avoid being randomly selected by the flying smiley ball.
"People are always scared at first," says Parulekar. "Some of them refuse to meet my eye assuming I would know their secrets," says the actor, who started learning the art of mentalism seven years ago when he ordered a few CDs and books on the subject from abroad. It is part science, part showmanship. "If this were a magic show I would ask you to pick out a card, keep it back and I'll guess the card by manipulating the set manually," explains Parulekar. "In mentalism, I would simply shuffle the cards in front of you, ask you to remember any one and try to guess it."
Though he may be slightly suspicious of people who believe in his "powers", the artist in him has always relished dropping jaws. Once, at an international ventriloquism competition, Parulekar went onstage without a puppet. "I simply used a bottle to trap my voice and released it via the other mike to create the illusion of another person," says the commerce graduate. Then, 12 years ago, he levitated inside a TV channel's office to try and convince producers of the visual potential of magic as a TV series. More recently, Parulekar created special effects for a Marathi play such as a scene in which the actor's head falls off.
His mentalism acts too have the aura of special effects. At one point in his show, for instance, Parulekar asked seven random members of the audience to write down seven-digit numbers and requested a man to add it up. He had pre-determined the total. While the act ended there at the show, Parulekar says he forgot to finish it. He grabs a notepad, writes down the total, 3131738, and holds the book upside down. The digits now form a word. Believe.
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