Stolen Paintings Controversy: Artist Seffy Soomro gets his ‘lost’ paintings back
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The controversy around the stolen paintings of Ghotki-based artist Seffy Soomro, used in the current hit Pakistani drama serial ‘ Kabhi Main Kabhi Tum’, came to an end and finally, the artwork has been handed over to him at Frere Hall.
Following a press conference at Karachi’s Frere Hall, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) Senior Director of Culture and Sports, Raza Abbas returned the paintings to artist Seffy Soomro.
During the press conference, Soomro also claimed for royalty of his artwork, monetized in these seven years.
“We demand royalty for our artwork otherwise, we will exercise our right to legal action,” he said.
However, KMC’s senior director dismissed the artist’s allegation and maintained that the artwork had been in the body’s possession since 2017, but they had no intention to keep it. Therefore, it is being returned to him after all these years.
He termed the artists’ allegations as damaging to their reputation and mentioned that there was a misunderstanding between the paintings’ owner and Frere Hall.
Abbas handed over the paintings to Soomro in the presence of the media to ensure transparency.
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It all started when the paintings were shown in the drama and Seffy got to know that his paintings were not lost.
Soomro took to his social media and shared a post in which he mentioned the story regarding the artwork that he submitted for his thesis work to Frere Hall in the year 2017 and he was told that his paintings were lost now.
Here is what he wrote:
Here are the paintings:
Here is the full episode 17 of the serial in which paintings were shown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASYV7uX1nV8