{"id":944966,"date":"2026-10-29T08:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T08:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944966\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T08:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T08:48:20","slug":"in-this-filmmakers-goa-home-the-wildlife-murals-took-1200-man-hours-of-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944966\/","title":{"rendered":"In this filmmaker\u2019s Goa home, the wildlife murals took 1,200 man-hours of painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The interiors, however, seemingly belie this structural rigour and, by Akali\u2019s own admission, take on a more playful character. \u201cWith the interiors of this project, I wanted to have fun, driven by a sentiment of \u2018why not?\u2019\u201d she says. \u201cI wanted this house to be whimsical, imaginative and driven by sudden unpredictable impulses.\u201d This spirit of flamboyance is perhaps best personified in the living room, a capacious double-height space with dark timber trusses and a sloping roof pitched to accommodate Goa\u2019s monsoon rains.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Architecture Vault Ceiling Home Decor Chair Furniture Couch Table and Plant\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3X5A1102__V2%20copy%202%20-%20Copy.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Vikas Soni and his team spent around 1,200 man-hours manually hand-painting the wall murals using water-based colours.<\/p>\n<p>Pankaj Anand<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Architecture Vault Ceiling Home Decor Chair Furniture Table Couch Person Building and Indoors\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3X5A1131_V2%20copy%202.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pankaj Anand<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Indoors Interior Design Architecture and Building\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3X5A1148_V2%20copy1%20copy.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pankaj Anand<\/p>\n<p>Against terracotta and beige lime-plaster walls, a series of fantastical wildlife murals come to life. If you\u2019ve visited Jaipur\u2019s popular haunts Bar Palladio and Villa Palladio, or picked up our September 2024 issue with Sonam Kapoor\u2019s maximalist home on its cover, you\u2019ve likely encountered the work of artist Vikas Soni, who has garnered something of a reputation for his inimitable murals. Here, monkeys play amid pink lilies and banana palms, while peacocks appear against pinstriped walls. \u201cThe idea was to turn this villa into a sanctuary rooted in creative expression and the calm of nature,\u201d Akali says. During construction, a baby monkey became a regular visitor to the hacienda, so much so that Akali would sometimes time her site visits around the prospect of watching him play. The murals, which took approximately 1,200 man-hours to complete, draw on these chance encounters with the local wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The interiors, however, seemingly belie this structural rigour and, by Akali\u2019s own admission, take on a more playful&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[418381,449,458,459,64,63,480,139341,460,134,30005,1194],"class_list":["post-944966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-ad100","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrity","tag-courtyard","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-goa","tag-homes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}