BIO

Arun Loganathan, popularly known as 'Arun the Mentalist', is an International award winning Magician, a professional mentalist and an escape artist, born and brought up in Chennai. He is also a qualified law and management graduate. His endearing passion for magic&mentalism and his determination to achieve in that field made him take it up as a profession, despite having been attacked by polio at the tender age of one. He considered his disability as a motivational factor, soared higher and higher and turned into an energetic and multi-talented person.

Arun was the first person in India to perform the suspended Straight Jacket Escape in 2007 for an AIDS awareness campaign. His act received praises from the hundreds of spectators over there. Later he gained recognition by performing in various TV shows, conducting blindfold bike rides to convey social messages and also by performing up close illusion shows. He has also been quoted as 'Local David Blaine in making' by The Hindu in 2007.

His shows cater to all kinds of audiences from children to elderly people. His corporate shows are runaway success with both the clients and employees. He makes it a memorable occasion for the company and his show provides as a stress buster for the employees. He adopts techniques which has a combination of mentalism and humor. He also does balloon sculpturing for kids and there have been jaw-dropping illusions performed by him in front of a large audience. He is also a trained hypnotist who knows to control the minds of other people, influence their thoughts and extract information from them by analyzing their psychological and behavioral patterns. His psychic abilities have not only have gone to the extent of pleasing the sense of vision, but also the sense of hearing. This was proved by his mindreading show which he conducting through Radio!

Shows

SOMETHING UNUSUAL:

This is ATM's stand up stage Magic&Mind show in which he exhibits his skills through hypnosis and psychological deception. He keeps you spellbound via his ethereal tricks which are a mélange of humor, mystery and adventure.

NEVER MIND:

A 60 minute show which is sure to sweep your soul away. It is a fun-filled show imbibed with wits and laughs. Arun performs acts like predicting a random word from a newspaper, reading the mind of four people from the audience, lie detection based on cold reading, taking risk with the help of a random person intuition, ATM pin revelation and much more. These mind-bending acts are sure to keep you glued to your seats in awe. Never mind is a show which will never leave your mind!

UP AND CLOSE:

If you want to experience mentalism at its wonderful form, then here is a show that will make your minds reel. 'Up and close' is a closeup mentalism show where Arun performs mental illusions with people surrounding him in a close semi-circle. He manipulates people's thoughts, hypnotizes them and influences them to reveal their thoughts. Other out-of-the-box acts in this show involve telekinesis (floating things, moving objects), touching people with psychic touch and predicting currency serial numbers. You can be assured of a 2 hour mindblowing entertainment with this show!

If you need chills down your spine and stirs throughout your soul, Arun The Mentalist is the perfect person to approach!

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ACCOLADES

  First Indian to win the Merlin Medal in Close-up Magic conducted in Bangkok in 2013

  Was the second runner up in Close-up Magic conducted in Bangalore in 2012.

  Is a member of International Magician Society and certified master Hypnotist.

  Holds four Indian Book of Records.

  Is a celebrity performer and has performed many acts for celebrities from the film industry.

  Performed in renowned TV channels like Star Vijay, Sun News, Sun TV, Udhaya TV, NDTV, Raj TV, ETV, Zee News, Star News, etc.,

  Conducted Mindreading show through Radio to prove his psychic abilities have gone to extent of pleasing sense of hearing.

  Has conducted many shows for various corporate and private events for more than 15 years.

  Has a plethora of fans from Malaysia, Singapore and Bangkok by conducting shows over there.

  Performed for TEDx and conducted escape stunts before all the police staff of Chennai.