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{{Infobox person
| name = K. Lal
| image =
| caption =
| birth_name = Kantilal Girdharilal Vora
| birth_date = {{birth date|1924|4|10}}{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
| birth_place = [[Mavjinjava]], [[Bagasara]] (now in [[Amreli district]], [[Gujarat]], India)
| death_date ={{death date and age|df=y|2012|9|23|1924|04|10}}
| death_place = [[Ahmedabad]], [[Gujarat]]
| occupation = [[Magician (illusion)|Magician]]
| religion =
| other_names = Lalsaab
| networth =
| spouse = Pushpa Vora
| children = Harshad Vora (K Lal Jr.)<br/>Priti Vasa<br/>Sonal Shah
| website = {{url|http://www.klal.com/}}
| footnotes =
}}

'''Kantilal Girdharilal Vora''' (10 April 1924 – 23 September 2012), popularly known as '''K. Lal''', was an Indian [[Magician (illusion)|magician]].

== Biography ==
K. Lal was born on 10 April 1924{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} in [[Bagasara]] (now in [[Amreli district]], [[Gujarat]], India) in a [[Jain]] family of Girdharlal Vora and Muliben.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> His uncle Lalchandbhai has a [[Khadi]] clothes shop in Calcutta who had entrusted it to his father when he joined [[Indian independence movement]]. The shop was burned down in riots so K. Lal had to work as a hawker. He rebuilt their clothes shop later and worked there K. Chhotalal Co.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Desai|first=Ratilal Deepchand|title=Amruta-Sameepe|publisher=Gurjar Granthratna Karyalaya|year=2003|editor-last=Desai|editor-first=Nitin R.|location=Ahmedabad|pages=389–394|language=gu|chapter=6. માયાજાળના અનુપમ કસબી સંસ્કારમૂર્તિ શ્રી કે. લાલ}}</ref>

He started his career as a magician in 1950 from Calcutta. His first show was held at Roxy Cinema in Calcutta. He was popular for his innovative tricks. He had evolved his tricks with technology. He used to spread social messages and moral lessons through his tricks. In a career spanning 62 years, he staged over 22,479 shows around the world, performing his last show in July 2012 in H K College Hall in Ahmedabad.<ref name=":1" />

He returned to Gujarat in 1990.<ref name=":3" /> He died on 23 September 2012 at his home in [[Ahmedabad]] after prolonged illness at the age of 88.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|date=23 September 2012|title=Noted magician K Lal dies in Ahmedabad|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-23/ahmedabad/34040004_1_bahrain-magician-magic-act|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001175747/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-23/ahmedabad/34040004_1_bahrain-magician-magic-act|url-status=dead|work=[[The Times of India]]|archive-date=1 October 2012}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{cite news|date=23 September 2012|title=Master illusionist K.Lal dead|work=Firstpost.com|url=http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/master-illusionist-k-lal-dead-465367.html}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite news|date=24 September 2012|title=Master illusionist K Lal passes away|work=The Indian Express|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/master-illusionist-k-lal-passes-away/1006982/}}</ref>

K. Lal married Pushpa Vora and had a son Harshad (also known as K. Lal Junior) and two daughters Priti and Sonal. They were married and settled in Chennai and Kolkata.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

==Appearances in media==
K Lal Senior and Junior appear prominently in a book entitled ''Net of Magic'' by [[Lee Siegel (professor and novelist)|Lee Siegel]], a writer and professor of religion at the [[University of Hawaii]]. The work, which combines fiction and nonfiction, contains, among other elements, Siegel's lengthy account of meetings with and descriptions of the two magicians.

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