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All you see is real

DO NOT TRY THESE stunts

Light the fire!

Not!

This is India.

The sounds, colors, energy.

This is where I found my calling as a magician

and where the generations of my family roots.

- Is your book here? - Yes.

Think about it.

That's the book?

- Yes. - Journey through India.

- How much did you give her? - One hundred rupees.

Two.

One two.

Rope trick

You know that in India talks about the magical properties of water?

- Yes. - E.g,

healing properties of the Ganga

and of course in Udaipur

- all of the lakes. - Yes.

We here

water a little magic in Udaipur

- and I want to try something with it. - Good.

You shuffle cards, and you will say stop.

- Stop. - Are you sure?

Get the book and did not show it.

Keep it in mind.

Ready? Put it back.

Good.

So you now a book.

One of mind.

Think about it.

And as you look at me through the water,

send me the book.

Good.

I think that's it.

That's your book?

It was a-six.

Not this?

- It was a six same... - Color?

- The same color? - spades?

Sure it was six, not to us?

- Yes. - Not.

Sorry it did not work.

We can use the magic water.

View New?

- You see it? - Yes.

- Nine. - Seema, think of your book.

- So now you see us fail. - Yes.

Follow feet.

A wave like this.

Super!

Lord!

I do not know how you do that.

- Six. - Yes, it's amazing!

Water magic is real,

Udaipur magic.

Thank you very much.

Overall, I breathe

from a magician who died performing a trick.

But this trip is different.

I'm here to unravel the mystery of Indian rope trick

and to discover my family ties

one of the most controversial magic tricks.

Rope trick always fascinated me.

Indian rope trick

According to historical accounts, it must operate so.

A magician makes a rope to get up.

A boy climbs on it

up into the clouds and disappears.

Angry magician take a sword

and pursue it.

Then, in a morbid twist,

cut limbs of the boy fall down.

Limbs are placed in the basket.

After a moment, the boy appears alive and well.

It is real?

Has it ever happened?

And how I can create their own version of Indian rope trick lethal?

A fall!

To this end, I came to a place full of magic Indian

which has a special significance.

Udapur.

I was right here when my life took a turn magical.

For generations, my family has worked in the banking field.

When I was 18, I worked in an investment bank.

I hated her,

so I ran to Udaipur.

At that time, magic was a hobby, a passion,

but no more.

However, something about the energy and mysticism of India

He made me dedicate my life magic.

Obviously, it was a very unusual decision

to break up a generations-old tradition.

But it was unquestionably the best choice ever made.

Do not know yet who will be my version of the Indian rope trick,

but I sure I will be doing here in Udaipur.

Hello!

- Hi! - Got a second?

I would like to show you something if you approach

and come this way.

- Yes. - Sure.

There is something very beautiful.

Can I use this?

If you stay on this side, it's perfect.

Just hold it up.

Squeeze the cloth so.

Hold it so. Tighten it.

Disha, come forward, please.

I give you this

you cut it here.

Cut jump.

Perfect.

We have a jump in half.

Approaching pieces.

One. Two. Three.

Oh God!

- Cute! - How did you do that?

Very cool!

Rope trick is archetypal lethal illusion.

He suffered a horrible death

before being revived.

I wonder what I can tell locals about it.

Indian rope trick you know?

You do not know?

Rope that raise? And he climb?

You do not know?

You know the story of the rope trick?

Yes, but I have not seen.

Thank you.

My questions have not found an answer,

but I gathered a lot curious

and the English gentleman abroad

ought not to disappoint them.

You know this game?

Rock, scissors, paper.

Gives.

I want to play this game...

with you if you agree. What's your name?

My name is Zafar.

Nice to meet you.

Three, make a sign. Thus, it or not.

Good.

One two Three.

- So you've beaten. - Yes.

Good. This time we get back,

and count to three.

When I say "three" turn around and show signs.

My challenge is to make the same sign as you.

- Yes. - We'll be back.

Gives.

Good.

- Ready? - Yes.

One two Three.

Oh God!

That's the first time.

- The first time out. - Yes.

One more time.

One two Three.

Oh God!

Come again.

One two Three.

Every time!

We try again, but now it will be different.

I want to look at me

and guess what sign will.

- Good? - Yes.

I have this bag.

I will cover hand

and you must tell me what I did sign in.

Good. That's the game.

It's a very simple game.

Good.

So...

Bag in hand...

and you think it is?

What sign is?

- Stone. - Stone?

Oh God!

- Stone. - Stone.

Thank you.

I need direct evidence of trick

and I wonder if I can help my friends in India.

Family link began grandmother, Ann Money-Coutts.

He was here to visit Queen 1961.

Jagat Singh Mehta befriended,

which would be foreign minister

and our families have remained friends.

- Ajay! - Hi!

Glad to see you, Drummond.

Thank you very much!

How long has it been!

Seeing his son Jagat, Ajay,

who knows as many people as his father.

I hope you will be able to open some doors and find me

someone who saw live rope trick.

People always ask me where I can obsessed India

and I can only assume that the grandmother.

And one of the things that fascinates me

It is the story of the rope trick.

Have you heard of it?

I've heard this trick

and wrote a famous novel about it,

but it was something that became somewhat

is the image of India in the eyes of the world.

You know someone

who might know any magician here in Udaipur?

I would like to seek and to tell thee.

But that's not my only chance.

Apparently not the first person in the family

interested rope trick.

My mother, who knew the whole story,

It comes from England to tell me more.

It'll be just in a few days

enough time for me to make new friends.

I give you books.

Before you choose a book,

I have a prediction jaadoo.

One prediction magic pocket.

You choose a card,

and I will return.

Neelima, choose any book

and show it to everyone, right?

Mucked around

and put back into the pack,

then mix them.

As you say in Hindi "shuffle cards"?

- Ready? - Ready.

I stay here.

I look in your pocket

and this is...

Hindi word for "magic".

That jaadoo.

See this line?

This line here? Follow her.

And now my prediction.

Five "C".

Five of the cup.

- This is the book chosen? - Yes.

You chose five of hearts, I take the book jaadoo...

Five of the cup.

Very nice!

- Cute. - Thank you.

I got a call from Ajay, who found

a traditional magician from a dynasty of street artists.

Perhaps people like him and his ancestors

They did the old trick rope.

I think he have the best chance of finding answers.

How are you?

Sikandar and his sons are descendants of three generations of magicians.

What do you know about the story rope trick?

It's a very old trick.

I've seen it myself.

Sikandar has seen with his own eyes,

but remembers his grandfather talking about it.

It was then about my age.

- So long ago? - Yes.

No idea how you were doing.

Again, details are few.

You know the trick magicians do today?

There is no demand for such tricks.

Do a trick in which separate from the hands and head...

So.

But people are scared, so I have not done.

- So people get scared? - Yes.

Today, we do coin tricks and stuff like that.

Tricks fun, not scary.

I see.

Once again, I leave with more questions than answers.

That seems to be a recurring theme when it comes to Indian rope.

However, what surprises me

It is to hear no more dangerous tricks popularity in India

despite the rich history

the fakirs and street artists who use threat and injury

as part of the show,

of swallowing swords

to the bed of nails.

Let's see if even modern Indians lost their taste

for this kind of show.

I want to show you something very... How to say "dangerous"?

Can I borrow this?

I can take?

Nothing.

Nothing.

Take him.

Shoot.

It sounds like a fakir magic element is still going well.

Something without which I could run my version rope trick.

A fall!

I have a track

seeking the truth about the Indian rope trick.

And surprisingly, it's closer to home

than India.

I learned that my grandfather, William Deedes,

He had discovered something about this trick.

He was an energetic man.

It was not a war hero and British minister

but journalist

peaking editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph.

Mom says, surprisingly, he once wrote an article

Indian rope trick about.

I hope the mother will be able to tell me more about it

tomorrow when he gets here.

- Hello all. Are you OK? - Yes.

Where are you from?

- Delhi. - New Delhi.

- Delhi? - Da.

I love India

Holi festival and especially love being here.

First visit to India I went to Udaipur for Holi

and I remember the whole city

and powder coated colors and like everyone mad.

So what I want to do is create a little magic

using the colored powder.

- Aisha -? Da.

Think of an image, something you associate with India

and any color and form it,

They try to represent them in mind.

What is the image in your mind?

Peacock, the national bird of India.

A peacock?

- With all of the beautiful colors? - Yes.

I'll try anything.

If I give you two of these,

Chuck, you get two,

or more than one each,

to see what happens.

Pour

a little red.

Good, a little green.

A little blue.

And little pink.

Perfect.

And a little purple here.

Perfect!

- So we all colors. - Yes.

- A combination of all. - Yes.

Let's try this.

National bird of India.

God, how did you do that?

Happy Holi!

You too!

Thank you very much.

Mother landed in Udaipur

and brought his grandfather's article about the rope trick.

- You brought! - Yes, we do.

Here you go. Indian rope trick.

So this is it. The trick rope India.

"Mr. Jasper Maskelyne, illusionist ..."

It was one of the greatest magicians of his time.

So given what it considered to be

the only explanation to trick a journalist from the Morning Post,

ie my grandfather.

"Although both new and Others

I put different parts of the trick

the real trick was never made

seen by someone. The whole story is a myth."

INDIAN trick revealed ENGLAND

One thing is certain,

Indian rope trick is surrounded by mystery.

But as there is no fire without smoke

yet I decided to make his own version of it.

In my mind an idea taking shape,

but still I need an item

things to law.

- Hello! - Hi!

Hi, I'm Drummond.

- I want to show you something. - Good.

On spices,

think of someone

that you want to cook.

- I'll take a few ingredients. - Good.

So this dinner...

- Coriander. - Coriander?

A little.

Chilli powder.

- Okay, pepper powder. - Turmeric.

- Turmeric? - Turmeric.

- Let's take. - Enough to kill someone.

- My friend will die. - So? It's too much?

Well, do not raise.

- We have enough. - Yes.

I realize this is unusual.

Mind you keep...

arm like that?

A sprinkle spices so.

- It is impossible to know, right? - Impossible.

- It's not possible. - Do not.

What's the name?

Tarun.

- Trun? - Trun.

How do you spell it?

T-A-R-U-N.

That's the person you want to have dinner?

- Let's cook with spices? - Yes.

You want to slightly lower spices?

Lord!

Shake.

Tarun, el e!

How did you do that?

Lord!

Who is Tarun?

He is my boyfriend.

- Is that your boyfriend? - Yes.

- How long you been with him? - Three and a half years.

What do you think about this?

- hates. - Not!

I do not mean relationship.

To stay? It's amazing!

It's incredible how you managed?

A's try something.

What's your favorite spice here?

- Paprika. - Paprika?

If you were in a restaurant

waiter should ask:

"A little, medium or very spicy?"

Very spicy.

- Always very spicy. - Yes, always.

- Every time? - Yes.

So if you take that

and put everything in it

so...

It's good? There's lots of pepper.

I leave here.

Give you a little back. Look.

Holy shit!

How did you do that?

- Burn bad chili. - Yes!

- Tarun spicy. - Great.

Eventually,

apparently legendary rope trick is just that,

a legend.

And that many generations

believed in him is perhaps the greatest magic of all.

Investigation is completed,

but the most dangerous task

I'm still waiting.

Now I'm up to me to take various components of the trick

and bring my own tribute to this legend.

I will focus on the story.

In my story,

that of being imprisoned in respectable banking area

and understand that they must escape,

to jump into the unknown and to give up all the magic.

- Hi. - Hi.

How are you?

My name is DMC and magician.

Today I want to show you my homage brought Indian rope trick.

I'll be tied with a rope.

I'll be stuck in this cage,

Cage will be locked,

and they will be placed swords in a way

which will immobilize me.

The entire cage is lifted

and placed above these Tepe

who will be on fire.

And the most important element of this escapes...

it's time.

These four ropes that keep the cage suspended

They will be lit as well.

So you have to escape from the cage

before the ropes burn

and cage fall on lower Tepe.

It's a very dangerous stunt,

but if things go wrong and my story will end,

I wanted to happen in the same place where my life began magical

with 12 years ago.

In Udaipur.

Lift cage.

To escape,

I must take the sword to keep me locked

to untie the rope around hands and body

and to open the padlock that closes the cage.

Only then can break

and jumped on a safety rope.

In tests,

all ropes burned while in about two minutes,

but it is known that cords are unpredictable when taking fire.

Therefore, there is no guarantee that it will last as long.

Light the fire!

He's crazy!

How close...

it's damn rope!

Rope burn.

Too slow!

A rope to catch?

A fall!

Come on!

Extraordinary!

Everything was on fire and I was a little scared.

I thanked God that descended safely.

I've never seen anything like it in my life.

The stunts like this, unexpected

It is causing most artist's death.

The first two lines burned much faster than I expected,

doubling the voltage on the other two.

With more than a second,

it was really a leap into the unknown.

Translation: R.Ambo