Partap Sharma, playwright, author, actor, director, filmmaker, and voice-over artist, with the golden larynx, was a genuine article. He not only carved a special niche for himself in everything he did, or explored, but he also set a benchmark — all his own.
Sharma’s foremost job was, of course, keyed to his gilded voice box, the best of his era, on this side of the Suez, and also writing. He wrote with sublime brevity, also splendid articulation, thanks to his vivid perception of reality. A reality draped with not just vibrant language skills, but also precise programming — a unity of both, so to speak.
Yet, the fact remains that Sharma was just too renowned for his verdant tonal finesse, meticulous diction and painstaking emphasis on the right, exact brogue. That he was also a lively raconteur was masked somewhat by his ‘voice-over’ celebrity status. However, what took the cake was his transcendent sense of imagination that uncoiled itself with elegant, sepia-tinted panache from his characters in natural situations.
The story-line was his touchstone, wherefrom he would conceal his mind by not giving undue weightage, or excessive attention, to the writer in him. For Sharma, his characters were most fundamental; his stories, around them being absolutely central. He never hovered, or wobbled, on the balance wheel of convenience.
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