Manmeet Singh Gill Tribune News Service Amritsar January 2 For almost eight years from 1984 to 1992 Partap Deepak a jagran and orchestra singer was a sought after artiste not only in local circles but entire state. “In a month sometimes I did not even have a single day off. All days were booked” he told. Partap said that he would easily get to perform 17-18 events every month apart from orchestra singing programs in marriages and parties. He has performed in all cities and towns of Punjab apart from numerous shows in Delhi. “In those days nobody had seen female dancers in marriage parties. The orchestra singers were the craze during that period” the singer said. Life had been going all well for Partap until 1992 when he fell from second floor of the building outside the railway station. “There used to a National hotel in those days. I had my office at its second floor. I was getting a large billboard with my picture fixed on the roof when I accidently fell off the roof” he shared. In the accident he broke both of his legs. “For next year and a half I would walk with crutches. I did start performing again and reopened by office but things were not the same anymore” he remembered. Partap even dropped the second half of the name Deepak and changed his name to Partap Paras to change his luck. “My sons name is Paras. An astrologer suggested me to change my name and so I did” he revealed. A junior engineer with engineering wing of the Municipal Corporation presently Partap said that he sometimes gets orders for jagrata events now. “But mostly I am busy with my office work.” He along with Kishore Paras his son has recorded a cassette of bhajans which would be released in next Navratri season by Saral Audio Company. In his good old days Partap had released a cassette of Punjabi songs sohnia da russna apart from other religious songs.

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