Doctors play Sidhu Moosewala songs to calm young fan during surgery in Punjab

Shubhdarshan Singh was in for a surgery on his right foot. The child had suffered a fracture.

A boy who was due to undergo surgery for his fractured foot grooved to late Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala’s songs during the procedure.

Shubhdarshan Singh, a three-year-old from Baghapurana town in Moga, was brought to a private hospital in Jagraon near Ludhiana after a car ran over his foot. He suffered a fracture and required surgery, Hindustan Times reported.

According to the orthopaedic surgeon, Dr Divyanshu Gupta, the child was anxious and crying but talkative. “Even after administering local anaesthesia to numb the foot, he was not letting us perform the surgery. To make him comfortable, we engaged him in a conversation. Asked if he wanted to listen to his favourite singer, the boy demanded we play Sidhu Moose Wala’s songs. We put on his playlist on a mobile phone,” Gupta told Hindustan Times.

During the entire 25-minute surgery under local anaesthesia, the boy kept busy while his favourite Sidhu Moosewala songs played in the background.

“Soon, he was comfortable with the environment and started grooving to the songs by raising his hands as though he were doing Bhangra lying on the operation table. To keep him distracted, the staff also performed some dance steps. The surgery went on well and the plaster cast was put on without any difficulty,” the surgeon added.

“He will be able to walk again in a month and a half if things go according to plan,” Gupta said.

Meanwhile, Sidhu Moosewala whose real name was Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, was shot dead by assailants on May 29, 2022, in Jawaharke village of Mansa district in Punjab. He was 28. His death came a day after his security cover was pruned by the government. He was an only child of his parents.

His parents, Balkaur Singh and Charan Kaur, were blessed with a baby boy in March this year. The couple got pregnant through IVF.