Indian-origin film buff to sell poster collection to fund ward’s education

London, March 17

An Indian-origin film buff, who has spent the past four decades queuing up at premieres to get his poster collection autographed by the stars, is set to reap benefits from its sale at an online weeklong auction in London from Tuesday.

Surgit Sohal, from south-east London, hopes to raise enough to fund his daughter’s university education and also help pay for her new home when 150 of his prized posters go under the hammer at Sotheby’s “Original Film Posters” auction, with a combined total between 1,07,000 and 1,65,000 pounds.

“As much as I love the collection, I’ve now decided to sell it at auction to put my daughter through university, and hopefully give her the deposit for a house,” said the 50-year-old.

“Although I will be extremely sad to see the collection go, I have encountered nearly all my heroes along the way – however, it was not always easy. Like us all, film stars are fickle, and getting a signature very much depended on which side of the bed they’d woken up on; and there were a lot of days where it was the wrong side,” he said. — PTI