{"id":595342,"date":"2026-08-25T08:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/595342\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T08:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:56:13","slug":"in-1997-shah-rukh-khan-dreamt-of-buying-mannat-years-later-his-dream-came-true-but-he-hardly-had-any-money-for-designing-the-lunch-that-he-served-us-telling-us-how-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/595342\/","title":{"rendered":"In 1997, Shah Rukh Khan dreamt of buying \u2018Mannat\u2019; years later, his dream came true, but he hardly had any money for designing: \u2018The lunch that he served us, telling us how he\u2019ll design the house, was way more than the salary\u2019 |"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"InThe story behind Shah Rukh Khan’s Mumbai home Mannat.(Image Credit: Instagram) Mannat, or as people fondly call it Shah Rukh Khan<\/a>\u2019s Mannat, is among the most popular and high-end properties in Mumbai. It can truly be called the dream home of Bollywood\u2019s superstar, as SRK had his eyes on Mannat while he was shooting \u2018Yes Boss\u2019 in 1997. Though he was shooed away from the property during his shoot, in that very moment, the beautiful sea-facing bungalow made its impression on the young Shah Rukh Khan. Years later, in 2001, Shah Rukh Khan finally purchased the property, but didn\u2019t you know he didn\u2019t have the means to design and furnish it?<\/p>\n

Why was Shah Rukh Khan shooed away from \u2018Mannat\u2019?<\/p>\n

A part of the song \u2018Chand Taare\u2019 from \u2018Yes Boss\u2019 was being shot outside Mannat. Speaking to Lehren Retro, Ahmed Khan shared that during the shoot, they were asked to leave from outside the property. He said, \u201cWe were shooting \u2018Chand Taare\u2019 outside Mannat, and the watchman shooed us away. There\u2019s a shot where a Parsi couple drives by, and Shah Rukh jumps on the car. We took that shot, and then the watchman told us to leave.\u201dThen Shah Rukh Khan jokingly said, \u2018Khareed lu kya? Fir shot lenge.\u2019 (Shall I buy it? Then we\u2019ll be able to shoot here.) He even asked the crew, \u2018Yeh khareed lu kya?\u2019 (Shall I buy this?)In 2001, Shah Rukh Khan purchased the house for Rs 13.01 crore.<\/p>\n

Why was buying Mannat one of the most difficult things for Shah Rukh Khan?<\/p>\n

In 1997, Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri were living in Aziz Mirza\u2019s house, Devdoot. Reflecting on that time, Aziz told Radio Nasha,\u201cShah Rukh was staying at my house, Devdoot, which was very close to Mannat. He and Gauri were young then, full of dreams. I remember they used to go on walks, and I\u2019m sure during one such stroll, he must have promised her that he would buy that house someday. Life was good to him, and he was fortunate enough to make that dream come true.”Shah Rukh Khan has often revealed why his home in Mumbai is so close to his heart. In his 2005 documentary \u2018The Inner and Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan\u2019, the \u2018Swades\u2019 star shared why buying Mannat was one of the toughest things for him.He said, \u201cIt\u2019s one of the most difficult things I have done in my life: to buy this house. I don\u2019t have a house anywhere in the world. I didn\u2019t have a house because my parents died. I have a house fetish. I always wanted a house.\u201dThe actor added, “My office, they have a problem; they can take it away. My studio, they can take it away. But my house is for the security of my wife, my sister, and my children.”<\/p>\n

When Shah Rukh Khan said he didn\u2019t have the money to furnish Mannat<\/p>\n

Shah Rukh Khan\u2019s challenges didn\u2019t end at buying Mannat. The next big thing was to rebuild the huge mansion. At the launch of Gauri Khan<\/a>‘s coffee-table book \u2018My Life in Design\u2019 in 2023, Khan mentioned that furnishing the property was \u201cway beyond our means.\u201dHe narrated, \u201cWhen we bought the house, we loved it; it was way beyond our means. Being from Delhi, one was used to living in bungalows; one didn\u2019t realise that Mumbai has a whole system where apartments are even more expensive than bungalows. We were just not used to it. Before the Bungalow, we used to live in the house right next to Taj Lands End; it was my director\u2019s house. He lent it to us, asking us to live there as long as we were making films. We didn\u2019t have too much money, and as soon as we had some money, we bought the bungalow – it was way beyond our means. We bought it; that was one thing, but then we had to spend a lot as it was broken.\u201d\u201cWe didn\u2019t have money to furnish it, and of course we called a designer, and the lunch he served us, telling us how he will design the house, was way more expensive than the salary I used to earn back then,\u201d Shah Rukh Khan continued.\"Shah<\/p>\n

Mannat is not just a house, but a legacy for Shah Rukh Khan and his family(Image Credit: Instagram)<\/p>\n

How Mannat gave Gauri Khan a new career?<\/p>\n

Since there were not many resources to hire someone, Shah Rukh Khan turned the challenge into an opportunity. He asked Gauri Khan to design the house. He revealed, \u201cThe only person to turn to was Gauri. I told her, you have some artistic talent, why don\u2019t you become the designer?\u201dWith Gauri as the interior designer, SRK said, \u201cMannat started that way, so whatever little money we earned over the years was spent in buying some stuff. Like once we went to South Africa, we bought leather for the sofa. Back then we were only allowed to carry 100 dollars or some little money abroad from India, and they were spent only on buying decoration pieces for the house.\u201d<\/p>\n

From villa to Mannat<\/p>\n

Originally called Villa Vienna, the sea-facing bungalow turned into a landmark property that Bollywood\u2019s beloved star Shah Rukh Khan and his family call home. According to Financial Express, Villa Vienna, which is now called Mannat has worth approximately Rs 200 crore. It is among the most expensive things the King Khan of Bollywood owns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The story behind Shah Rukh Khan’s Mumbai home Mannat.(Image Credit: Instagram) Mannat, or as people fondly call it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[269265,458,146,10345,85,46,13945,404,269264],"class_list":["post-595342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bollywood-homes","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-gauri-khan","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mannat","tag-shah-rukh-khan","tag-villa-vienna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}