Date:12/09/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/09/12/stories/2006091203210200.htm

Andhra Pradesh - Anantapur

Mimicry programme in all districts

Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR: Academy of Indian Mimicry and Magic and Indira Priyadarshini Kalasamstha will jointly conduct programmes in speed mimicry and ventriloquism in all district headquarters and important cities from September 29 to November 14, 2007.

The entertainment fete would be launched from Anantapur on September 29 and it would be held for one week till October 5, mimicry artiste and Guinness and Limca book records holder B. Ramakrishna Reddy stated here on Monday.

He claimed that as part of the show he would mimic 250 items in just 21 minutes. The funds mobilised by conducting the shows would be handed over to the Chief Minister's Fund for welfare of children suffering from heart diseases. The show would be held in Kalluru Subba Rao auditorium in Lalithakala Parishad.

Apart from mimicry, he would also perform ventriloquism.