Artists team up to raise funds for Coronavirus test kits. Anurag Kashyap, Varun Grover and Kunal Kamra aim to raise Rs 13 lakhs by auctioning their trophies.
Anurag is auctioning his Filmfare critics award for best film, which he won for ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’. While Kamra is auctioning his Youtube Button.
Writer and lyricist, Varun Grover is auctioning his TOIFA award for the song “Moh Moh Ke Dhaage” from Dum Laga Kar Haisha. All the artists confirmed the same via Twitter. They tweeted :
Highest bidder gets the original trophy for the Filmfare critics award best film 2013 . “Gangs of Wasseypur”… https://t.co/BtXrUQAJ7C
— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) May 20, 2020
Adding the TOIFA trophy I won for 'Moh Moh Ke Dhaage' (DLKH, 2015) for charity auction to raise funds for Covid test kits.
Putting it up on ebay in 2050 was my retirement fund plan but i believe now is a better time to use it to secure India's future. https://t.co/t0Q6YJMCkg https://t.co/2xqDEakmKA pic.twitter.com/hu6Yig2G7p
— वरुण 🇮🇳 (@varungrover) May 20, 2020
The funds raised will be directly transferred from Milaap Foundation to Mylab Discovery Solutions. They will facilitate Murda Media India to obtain test kits for distribution to hospitals and labs.
The statement further describes “The cost of each testing kit is 1.2Lacs + GST and each testing kit has the capacity to test 100 samples. We aim to donate ten testing kits, which will help 1000 people get tested for COVID-19, free of cost. In the next 30 days, we need Rs.13,44,000 for ten kits which will help one thousand people get tested.”