kolkata firhad hakim the chairman of the kmc board of administrators recently met a member of the family that owns the heritage house in kolkata that once belonged to sd burman and rd burman if all goes well the plan of building a museum on the premises of 361 south end park might soon be a realitytwo meetings have already been held between the minister and the kolkatabased current coowner of the house nisheeth kumar totla on friday hakim told toi the owners have agreed to sell the property i have told him to give us an offer once that is done we will discuss the offer at the board meeting kmc also has fund issues but we will try our level best to buy this property we will repair the building the plan is to build a museum on the first floor the ground floor will be used as a space for musicians to perform and have their share of addaat a ceremony held in january this year to rename south end park as sangeet sarani hakim had said that the civic body will buy the building and convert it into a museum according to panchams uncle abhijit dasgupta dev burmans had moved into the house from a rented property at hindusthan park where pancham was born in 1945 my father and sd burman had bought two adjacent plots of land it took two years for the buildings with similar architectural styles to be completed dasgupta saidthe dev burmans lived in that house till 1952 before shifting to mumbai some of burmans iconic songs were composed and sung by the duo here in this house the popular song takdum takdum was composed for this song pancham had gone to the hmv studio in dum dum to do his first recording as a percussionist there are countless stories of stalwarts like ustad allauddin khan purna das baul salil chowdhury hemanta mukherjee and asha bhonsle frequenting this housethis house was finally bought by the totla family in 1986 we have always wanted to build a museum there to pay respect to the burmans i have personally taken the initiative and spoken to nisheeth kumar totla about this he comes from a very erudite family of lawyers he has consulted with the other coowners they have agreed to sell the property and had discussions with firhad hakim i was also present at one of these meetings said west bengal heritage commission chairperson suvaprasannawhen toi got in touch with totla he confirmed about attending the meetings this is a family property i have to take the consent of all the stakeholders shubhada suvaprasanna has told me that they want to build a museum there no understanding has yet been reached he said