Famous of Pakistan photographer Hajira Rahi, wife of Mansoor Ahmed Rahi, estimated her husband’s worth of more than one billion rupees Paintings Of theft He blamed his own son.
Hajira Rahi has also registered a case against her son, according to which in January this year, her son came home with a friend and four or five unknown persons and took away the valuable paintings.
Narrating the details of the incident, Hajara Rahi said in the FIR that her son took them (parents) out for food and when they returned, his friends were collecting paintings.
‘After dinner he took us straight to the upper rooms. I heard some noises from the basement, which the son called my illusion and put a cloth on the screens of the cameras.’
According to the text of the FIR filed on September 19 in Shalimar police station, Islamabad, Mansoor Ahmed went downstairs and saw that his son’s friends had taken out 70 to 80 paintings of his from the frames and put them in seven or eight rolls. What was folded in the case, which they kept in the car.
However, the wife could not explain the proper reason for the theft incident and the delay of eight months in filing the case. According to him, the FIR was delayed due to the shock caused by the incident.
Independent Urdu tried to know the position of Mansoor Rahi’s son Danish Rahi on the phone regarding these allegations, but no response was received from him.
Hajra Rahi further said that ‘When Mansoor Ahmad Rahi came to know about this action of his son Danish Rahi, he fell ill due to severe shock.’
According to the FIR, the value of the paintings is close to one billion rupees, while despite repeated explanations, his son did not stop and finally on May 12, Mansoor Ahmad Rahi died.
An art related website Loro Pakistan But still the price of one of his paintings is kept at more than six crore rupees.
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Hajira Rahi said that after the death of her husband, I myself was shocked and now I want to take legal action against my son. Because my own son-in-law has stolen all the paintings.’
Hajra Rahi told Independent Urdu that one of Mansoor Rahi’s last words before his death was ‘Danash (son) return my paintings’.
She said that her husband had been repeatedly inquiring about the paintings even during his mental illness.
Hajra Mansoor said that Mansoor Rahi had been making paintings for about 60 years and had planned to convert the house into a museum and display his paintings in it.
Mansoor Rahi’s daughter Saima Rahi accused her brother of inappropriate behavior even after her father’s death.
Mansoor Rahi and his family with former Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz (Mansoor Rahi family)
Who was Mansoor Rahi?
Born on January 1, 1939 in Calcutta, Mansoor Ahmad Rahi is known as one of the famous painters of Pakistan. He studied at the Arts College in Dhaka and then established the Karachi School of Arts in the 1960s to teach fine arts.
He came to Islamabad in 1980. He was married to the famous painter Hajra Mansoor, who was also one of the founders of this college.
Mansoor Rahi is heavily influenced by Picasso’s style of painting and completes his painting in one stroke. He is considered to be the creator of the unique style of Cubism in painting and this was his specialty.
Mansoor Rahi was also awarded the Presidential Medal for Excellence in 2007 by the government.
Mansoor Rahi had the privilege of being mentored by two eminent art teachers, Muhammad Kibaria, a renowned artist, and Abdul Razzaq. Mansoor paints with the same passion he did when he emerged on the then West Pakistan art scene in the late 1960s.
Mansoor Rahi’s popular series of paintings was this.
Gray Genesis Series
Wild Horse Series
World Food Crisis
A soul in hell
and the struggle for success
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2024-09-24 07:09:20
