MUMBAI: ‘Criss Angel Mindfreak‘ will kick off on English GEC Zee Cafeon 21 July at 9 pm.

The show is about Criss Angel as a mentalist and will air Monday- Friday.

Angel is apparently able to pull numbers, colors, ideas and names right out of his subject‘s head. But he‘s more than a mentalist; he has one of the very best slight of hand magicians one might have ever seen. Not only traditional card tricks, but anything and everything is fair game. It may be relatively "easy" to "pick a card", but explain how the man can get a cell phone inside of a beer bottle, drop an expensive piece of jewelry through a glass case, pull a snake out of a woman‘s purse or a tarantula out of some guy‘s hat! He levitates people, walks on water, makes a couple walking toward him suddenly vanish and reappear 50 feet away.

He flies, he floats, he disappears in a cloud of dust in the middle of the desert. He makes a straight pin travel up his arm, under the skin, to be spat out of his mouth. He gives a girl a voodoo doll in the middle of a busy intersection. She sticks it with a pin, and his chest begins to bleed.

Criss Angel was the youngest of three brothers and he has been interested in magic ever since he saw his Aunt Stella perform a trick when he was six. He earned $15 for his first appearance as a magician, when he was 14 years. When he became 19, he began working as a magician in childrens‘ shows and in nightclubs, earning $3,000 a week.

In 2001, he mortgaged his mother‘s house in order to produce the TV show Mindfreak, which demanded investments of $300,000. A year later, he had achieved an income of $4 million and a great reputation as the creator of the "permanent polish" trick. A characteristic of his magical acts is their demand of public areas, such as streets, and the use of common elements.