Actor Shah Rukh Khan and his family are moving to a temporary address in Bandra’s Pali Hill, as their iconic home Mannat, a Grade 2-B structure heritage building, undergoes renovations.
SRK and his interior designer wife Gauri Khan are adding two floors to Mannat’s annexe, increasing the built-up area by 616.02 sq metres. While many have been wondering what the renovated structure will look like, this is perhaps also a good time to rewind the clock and look at the mansion before it became Mannat.
Villa Vienna
Irked by the various stories about Mannat floating around on the Internet, Debasish Chakraverty, a Mumbai-based history enthusiast who has been chronicling the past of Bandra and Santacruz, decided to dig deeper. He then penned down his findings in an essay titled ‘Mansion by the Sea: The History of Villa Vienna’ for community newsletter Bandra Times
