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Watch this puppet show with your children in Navi Mumbai this weekend
Updated On: 05 April, 2024 08:28 AM IST | Mumbai | Devashish Kamble
A ventriloquist will bring a two hour-long comedy show crafted especially for children to Navi Mumbai this weekend
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Natekar (centre) interacts with children following a previous show at the venue in 2023
There`s no sweeter sound than a child’s laughter. But getting a child to laugh? Now that’s a tough one to crack. Your most polished and practised punchlines might fall with a thud in a room full of kids only for you to find them snorting and rolling on the floor howling about a goofy sound effect they heard somewhere. Vinay Natekar, a ventriloquist and stand-up comedian from Belapur would know. Having cracked the code to making these young critics chuckle with his friendly puppets and their absurd escapades, Natekar makes his way to Vashi this weekend for an engaging storytelling performance crafted specially for young audiences.
“You need to toss all the complex joke structures you know in the bin and strip a joke down to its simplest form to make a child laugh,” Natekar shares as a thumb rule that he discovered, admittedly, a tad too late. “I began with performances for adults in private shows, and my jokes did well most times. Things changed in 2017 when I was invited to perform at a child’s birthday party and I tried my usual set. A deafening silence ensued, joke after joke,” he laughs, adding that although the incident was embarrassing at first, it put him on a path to write comedy for children. For the 30-year-old, that meant turning to ventriloquists like Vighnesh Pande and Jeff Dunham in 2018 to study the art form.
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