Osian's Auction Catalogue The Greatest Indian Show On Earth | September 2014

The Greatest Indian Show on Earth 130 ORIGINAL ARTWORK Featuring Rajesh Khanna & Mumtaz in ROTI.1974 Directed by Manmohan Desai Hand-painted on cardboard / ART 37.6 x 27.2 in (95.5 x 69.0 cm) Provenance Private Collection, New Delhi ` 48,000 – 72,000 US$ 800 – 1,200 GBP 480 – 720 Full image on p. 200 131 Rajesh Khanna & Parveen Babi in SHELVED FILM ‘CHAMATKAR’.1976 Colour Photographic Still / PHO 15.9 x 10 in (40.4 x 25.4 cm) Provenance Collection of a Film Historian, Mumbai ` 9,000 – 13,500 US$ 150 – 225 GBP 90 – 135 Full image on p. 201 129 Rajesh Khanna, Sharmila Tagore & Raakhee in DAAG.1973 Directed by Yash Chopra Photographic Still mounted on Lobby Card / PHL 14.7 x 12.0 in (37.3 x 30.4 cm) Provenance Private Collector, New Delhi ` 36,000 – 54,000 US$ 600 – 900 GBP 360 – 540 Lot of 20 With the success of Amar Prem, the pair went on to work together in Yash Chopra’s ‘Daag’, in which he plays a regular young man who falls in love with Sharmila’s character in the film and gets married to her. Subsequently, he saves her by killing the assailant who tries to rape her, only to be imprisoned for his crime. In a twist of fate, the police van that is carrying him falls into a gorge but he survives. As the plot thickens, he marries another woman and changes his identity, only to be discovered by Sharmila years later. In a first, Rajesh Khanna romanced two heroines in a film that came at the peak of his career. It was one of the few films to gross 6.5 crores and be declared a superhit. This film laid the foundation for Yashraj films 199 A FOCUS ON THE FIRST SUPERSTAR OF INDIAN CINEMA RAJESH KHANNA