Neel Madhav is an Indian television personality, public speaker, actor, author, mentalist, and illusionist. He is the director of special projects at Fashion TV Paris, where he handles television distribution and programming.[1]
Madhav was born on 14 August 1993 to Raghvendra Madhav, an investment banker,[6][7] and Vinita Madhav, a scriptwriter and producer.[8][9][10][11] His family lived in various locations, including New York, Mumbai and New Delhi.[12] He currently resides in Mumbai.[13]
Madhav developed You Got Magic with Neel Madhav, which premiered on NDTV Good Times in 2014. The show features a combination of food, travel, adventure, and magic.[12][14][16][17] The show began airing on Sony BBC Earth in March 2020.[3]
His illusions include turning sand into gold, turning leaves into butterflies, making people forget how to read, and predicting newspaper headlines.[16][18]
In 2019, Madhav played a recurring role as Arjun Mehra in the Amazon Original TV series Made in Heaven.[1][22] He was also included in the Forbes Asia 30 under 30 list for Sports and Entertainment.[4]
^ abcRaggett, Matthew. Sampath, Karan (ed.). "The Doon School Informational Review". The Doon School Weekly. No. May 2019. The Doon School. p. 19. Retrieved 30 May 2020 – via issuu.com. It was good to see two Doscos amongst the cast as they make their way in the world; Aditi Joshi played the bride in the first episode and Neel Madhav played Karan's younger brother in two episodes.
^ abSen, Tanushree (14 December 2016). "In India, magic as a genre needs to be modernised believes mentalist Neel Madhav". justearthnews.com. Archived from the original on 2 June 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020. Admitting how it was not easy to convince his parents, he said, My dad is an investment banker and he is from Harvard Business School. So for someone like him, it was very hard to accept that his younger son wanted to be a magician
^Rajpal, Seema (28 November 2017). "What slick trick is up Neel Madhav's sleeve these days?". newindianexpress.com. Express News Service. Archived from the original on 6 June 2020. Retrieved 6 June 2020. In 2014, he began hosting a TV series called You Got Magic with Neel Madhav on NDTV, which sees the young magician travelling across India and performing his tricks. When he felt the need to elevate the status of magicians in India, he co-authored his first book You Got Magic, with Vinita Madhav, his mother.
^"Neel Madhav & Vinita Madhav". penguin.co.in. Archived from the original on 2 June 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020. Vinita Madhav began her career as a freelance presenter with BBC Radio, London, in 1989, after a short stint with All India Radio and Doordarshan. Thereafter she proceeded to work in corporate and film production, specializing in scriptwriting. On returning to India, she launched her own company, Media Network Pvt. Ltd. For the past twenty years, Vinita has produced several shows for a host of Indian and international television networks.
^"TEDx at St Xavier's, Mumbai". ted.com. TEDxStXaviersMumbai. Mumbai. 8 February 2015. Archived from the original on 1 June 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2020. Neel Madhav, a young graduate is known to scintillate his audiences with his dabble in magic.
^"Theme: Prism of Possibilities". ted.com. TEDxChristUniversity. Bangalore. 26 February 2016. Archived from the original on 1 June 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2020. Neel Madhav is not your run-of-the-mill magician. This new-age illusionist combines magic with mentalism, neuro-linguistic programming and criminology, even applying it to corporate strategies. Neel has spoken at other conferences and college events in between shooting new episodes of his show "You Got Magic with Neel Madhav".
