It is roughly 27,000 sq. toes throughout six storeys, sea-facing at Bandstand
Gauri Khan’s personal coffee-table guide, My Life in Design, places numbers to the parable: 27,000 sq. toes, six storeys, the Arabian Sea shut sufficient to really feel like a fourth wall. These figures have since calcified into reality, repeated in almost each account of the home that adopted. However the numbers solely inform half the story. What they do not seize is the seam working by the property — the purpose the place the unique heritage bungalow, preserved and untouchable on the entrance, provides solution to a taller, totally trendy annexe rising behind it. The 2 are stitched collectively internally, in order that strolling by Mannat means transferring, virtually with out noticing, from one century into one other.
Artwork by Subodh Gupta, Jogen Chowdhury and a paintbrush by M.F. Husain
Unsurprisingly, the home is replete with works by a few of India’s most interesting masters. In the lounge, a canvas by Subodh Gupta hangs alongside a number of different artistic endeavors. Among the many extra heartfelt items is a framed paintbrush that after belonged to the late M.F. Husain, who despatched it to Shah Rukh Khan after listening to how a lot Gauri favored it. The eating room encompasses a daring canvas by Jogen Chowdhury, whereas one other wall shows a set of vintage Christian iconography.
The home is mid-expansion
Mannat is changing into one thing bigger than the home the world thinks it is aware of. Behind the wrought-iron gates, past the balcony the place crowds nonetheless collect for a glimpse of Shah Rukh Khan, development crews have been engaged on an addition to the rear of the property. The paper path is moderately much less discreet: the MCZMA’s one hundred and eightieth assembly agenda, dated December 10–11, 2024, formally data an “addition and alteration of present residential constructing ‘Mannat’” filed by Gauri Khan. The Occasions of India has since recognized filmmaker-turned-developer Anand Pandit as the person overseeing the renovation, along with his agency, Shri Lotus Builders and Realty, main the construct. Pandit has described the challenge as new flooring rising behind the prevailing home, fastidiously tucked out of view of the heritage-listed bungalow that faces the ocean. The unique Mannat, in different phrases, stays exactly the place it has all the time been: grand, seen, and frozen within the public creativeness. It’s every little thing behind it that’s altering.
The photographs used on this story are from AD India’s September/October 2014 situation.
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