Kishore’s Last Song Auctioned For Rs 15.6 L

New Delhi: Kishore Kumar’s last song was sold for Rs 15.6 lakh at the Osian’s auction on Tuesday. Gurgaon-based entertainment destination, Kingdom of Dreams, successfully bid for the full rights of the unreleased song which was recorded just three days before the legendary singer’s demise in October 1987. Further details of the song are not known.

“We plan to introduce the song in our musical show Jhumroo on Kumar’s birth anniversary on August 4,” said Viraf Sarkari, director, KOD. Actor Aamir Khan, along with wife Kiran Rao, bid for six collector’s items valued at Rs 3,21,233 including Shammi Kapoor’s jacket (Rs 88,000). Aamir is an ardent Shammi Kapoor fan and used to show the first reel of all his films to the legendary Kapoor before their release.

“When I heard that Shammi uncle’s jacket was in the auction, I was very keen to try and get it. And I am so happy that Kiran and I were lucky enough to get it. This is the jacket that he wore in the film, Prince. I am so happy,” the actor told TOI.

Other auction highlights were the selling of 45 signed black and white photographic stills by the evergreen Dev Anand (Rs 4,00,000), the famous scarf from Junglee (1961) worn by Shammi Kapoor (Rs 1,56,000), the sweater he wore from Andaz (Rs 1,50,00), the turquoise ring set in silver worn by Farooque Sheikh in Muzaffar Ali’s famous Umrao Jaan (Rs 96,000) and a cricket bat signed by Aamir Khan and the Lagaan team (Rs 1,56,000) among many others.

The auction registered overall sales of Rs 69.55 lakh. 86% of the items were sold with records established across all types of publicity material and film memorabilia.

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