Mannat: Shah Rukh Khan's Sea-Facing Bandra Landmark
Shah Rukh Khan's Bandra home began as Villa Vienna in 1914. Its heritage grade, annexe and two-floor extension, as the records show.
Few Bollywood addresses are as famous as Mannat, the white sea-facing house on Bandra's Bandstand where Shah Rukh Khan has lived since the early 2000s. It began as a seaside villa and now carries a heritage grade, a six-storey annexe and a planning file that has reached a green tribunal. Here is what the record shows.
From Villa Vienna to Mannat
The Indian Express reports that the house was built in 1914 and was originally called Villa Vienna. It adds that Khan filmed a scene for Yes Boss at Bandstand, developed a fondness for the building and bought the property in 2001. The Times of India says he renamed it Mannat, a word that means a heartfelt wish or prayer. The same report puts the built area at about 27,000 square feet.
The Indian Express Explained desk traces the earlier owners. It says the villa passed through the Dubash family, was rented to tenants that included the film director Nitin Bose and the Maharajah of Mandi, and was later sold to the diamond merchant Bharat Shah. Khan bought it from him.
A heritage grade and an annexe
The house sits in Mumbai's heritage list. The Indian Express says it was marked Grade 3 in the city's first heritage listing in 1995. After a review in 2006, the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee upgraded it to Grade 2-B, citing in a review note the building's "architectural value as a seaside villa and associational value with Shah Rukh Khan". Other outlets, including the Times of India and Hindustan Times, still describe it as Grade III, so the label differs by report.
Because of the grade, Khan could not make structural changes to the original villa. According to the Indian Express, he built a six-storey annexe behind it and gave that structure the name Mannat. The Hindustan Times says the plot measures 2,091.38 square metres and that the annexe has two basement levels, a ground floor and six upper floors.
The two-floor extension
In November 2024 the Indian Express reported that Gauri Khan, the family's interior designer, had applied to the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority to add two floors to the annexe. The extra floors would add 616.02 square metres of built-up area. The Hindustan Times says the estimated cost is Rs 25 crore and that a committee headed by the state's principal secretary for environment discussed the proposal on Dec. 11.
The authority's role comes from geography. The Indian Express explains that the property sits at Land's End, the southern tip of Bandra, so any change in height has to clear coastal rules. The Times of India reports that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation approved the plan on Nov. 7, 2024 and that the National Green Tribunal later dismissed an appeal against the work, saying the property falls in a CRZ-II zone on the landward side of existing structures. Once built, the paper says, it will have two basements, a ground floor and eight upper floors, 37.54 metres high.
Where the family stayed
The Indian Express reported that the Khans were moving to a temporary address in Pali Hill while the work went on. The Times of India quotes Gauri Khan telling News18 Showsha that the renovated house should be ready "in the next one year". It also says the family is estimated to be staying in a duplex in Pali Hill and puts the home's value at about Rs 200 crore, an estimate and not a figure from the family.
What we could not confirm
We could not confirm whether the renovation has finished or when the family returns. The heritage grade is reported as both Grade III and Grade 2-B, and we could not reconcile the two. The Rs 200 crore value is an outside estimate. We did not find a statement from the family on the final design.
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