Circus is the biggest entertainer. It makes you happy. It helps you smile more than TV or internet. While watching circus, you participate in the show and engage your mild totally and watch the tricks of people flying in air in trapeze and people performing tricks and magic and a lot of fun for young and old whose heart is as young as freshly bloomed flower.
On November 24, 2007, I enjoyed the day going to circus. The day passed wonderfully as around 12 noon and I went to Botanical Garden at Shibpur. Then around 3: 30 p.m., I went to this wonderful circus where performers from far away Russia has come to show off their performance, which is spellbounding, astonishing, remarkable, great, hot, sexy, with a lot of oomph, with a lot of color and glamour draw more and more crowds than the other circuses. After visiting this circus, I realized that fair complexion is forever for the viewers beauty is a thing of the joy only to the eyes of the beholder.
Circus is an art. The performers have given it an art form. What a wonderful show it was when the Russian girl performed yogic pose in the air with two pieces of long red cloth in the air. What a performance when she winded and twisted the cloth with the audience remained spellbound with the Russian Beauty. It seemed that the man probably forgot his beautiful wife sitting beside me and gazed at the Russian beauty like an apple hanging high in the rope just a few centimeters above his mouth. His mouth watering but he cannot eat it! "Ahh!! Oh..Miss Russia where are you? My sweetheart!!!" (he probably is thinking like that!).
Then came a girl with parrot, a Russian girl carrying a colorful parrot in his hands. Along with this girl was coming a girl with a face that resembles a girl from a hilly region but in no doubt she is cute! Anyway they showed their game. The bird came down and went up the ladder and some other tricks also. The parrot is green with red and blue streaks and the wonderful bird showed its game nicely.
Dancer from Mumbai in India called Monica came. She danced with one ring and then 2, then 3, 4, 5, 6, .In this game, the rings were thin and made of plastic. They are of multiple colors. She danced with popular Bollywood songs. She is a gracious dancer!! She danced remarkably swaying her hips.
Monica never went away ! She again return with a pole with rungs and a football. She made the balls pass from one step to the next. She could not pass the ball once. Then played again and made it! It is a great skill when the lady lying in a sloping table and balancing leg to made the ball reach the top of the pole.
Besides there were poles with balance and the performers are standing one upon another with ease. It is wonderful to see the circus is based on this art of balance. Your balancing skills through practice, you can be a great performer and astonish one and all in a circus. Your beauty with practice makes you a perfect performer and if you observe circus, it is basically yoga in different poses in air and in trapeze.
The animals used in this circus is horse, elephant, parrot, camel and dogs.
There were 4 horses used and the ring master made them run and the horses well trained performed wonderful games with horse riders riding them in different ways and it was a nice show made by horse riders. Here the horse can identify numbers. When a number called by the audience, it is picking up that number! Training is everything in circus!!
The elephant came with a girl in its trunk. The girl was a beautiful one and she sat over the elephant. She laid beneath the elephant like a baby. It is wonderful to see the elephant performing different tricks and identifying numbers.
Parrot show is wonderful. The parrots accompanied by an Indian and a Russian performer caught everybody's attention. The birds moved from one branch to the next of the iron pole and showed their game.
The dogs jumped and came in the show. They were accompanied by a few ladies. They moved between legs, on two legs and their show is nice.
The camels came on the stage. They are four in number. It seemed like I am in Rajasthan. The camel walked on the stage, posed in different ways and went away!
A Russian lady and a male performer came on stage and they showed some juggling.
I forgot to tell a great performance by a Russian lady who bent and twisted her body like a rubber. The announcement was loud and clear: "A Russian performer whose body is like a rubber." She made wonderful poses of yoga making the audience speechless.
Clowns are an integral part of all circus. They make you smile. Smile?something which we have lost in this materialistic world. Now we get lot of shows in television also that makes us laugh. Even competitions are held where a person tells jokes and the best joke teller gets the prize. But what is unique in these clowns are the following:
- They make you laugh as you see their short height and their overall appearance. It makes you laugh loud: Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha !
- The way they speak, I mean to say, their squeaking voice!
- Their funny dress of all colors adds charm to their looks!
- The way they create a funny show and their acting skills.
- In all circus, clowns have one thing in common, they only give you a laughter which comes us directly from your heart and mind which is pure and good for your health!
Watching these clowns performing, you will remember the famous film made by Raj Kapoor "Mera Naam Joker" (My Name is Joker) whose passion to be a joker like his father is the main theme although he saw the fatal end of his father as he fell from trapeze. The songs are memorable and often we sing softly when we are alone.
The clowns performed the following acting:
- A clown came on stage with a cameraman. Probably he is going to take a photo, as the cameraman is taking the photo, he is moving to the other side. His foolish behavior is making us laugh loudly.
- A clown came to the saloon for a hair cut. The barber brought a pair of scissors, which are bigger in size than the normal one. It is made to assert that the joker is a small and dwarf, so everything looked big. Everyone laughed when the giant scissors missed the hairs at the edges.
- On the trapeze, each time the joker goes up. His pant falls down as he moves from one end of trapeze to another.
Girls moving in bicycle with different poses. Something they are holding the spokes, sometimes sitting over the rod like a boy carrying a girl, sometimes they are rotating themselves on the cycle.
I have also seen Nataraj Circus at Tala Park and later on December 24, 2007, I saw this circus. The aspects which are notable in these two circuses are as follows:
- Presentation: Russian Circus is better than Nataraj Circus. The way the show starts is wonderful and simply great. In Nataraj Circus, we get a lot of balancing activities.
- Nataraj circus showed fire tricks which was absent in Russian Circus.
- Russian circus has wonderful shows of trapeze and performers from Bombay who performed better with new games.
