I am sure you must have heard your grandparents say that Mumbai in their time was way different than what it looks like today! All those who have been fortunate enough have also strolled across the city, where their grandparents spoke about how a particular lane, building, or cafe looked back then. Well, a page on X (formerly Twitter) posted a picture featuring a villa in Bandra and asked people to guess it. Netizens promptly said, “It’s SRK’s Mannat!”.
Identify This 1920s-era Villa In Bandra
Can you identify this 1920s-era Villa in Bandra pic.twitter.com/jvpeWzn8eX
— Mumbai Heritage (@mumbaiheritage) September 7, 2023
A page @MumbaiHeritage posted a picture on X (formerly Twitter). The black-and-white picture featured a villa from the 1920s era in Bandra. The caption asked people to identify this villa in Bandra.
The villa looked grand and royal from its structure, as per the image. You can also spot a beautiful lawn in front of it. The picture looks so old that one cannot even guess its vicinity. Just then, to help people identify the place better and to give a hint, The same page posted some more pictures.
Featured in several films#bandra https://t.co/icUhaKq9bM pic.twitter.com/e9vyLtP8Ry
— Mumbai Heritage (@mumbaiheritage) September 7, 2023
These pictures were stills from many Bollywood movies like Tezaab, Angaar, Yes Boss, and one more. All these stills show this Bandra villa in the background or have been shot in this villa.
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Earlier Owned By A Parsi Businessman
Srk , manat
— Chetan Hansraj (@chetan_hansraj) September 8, 2023
The picture is of Villa Vienna, and all of it is now fully covered and walled and renamed Mannat.
— Harshal Modi (@grondmaster) September 7, 2023
After this post was put up by @MumbaiHeritage asking citizens to guess it, More than half of the people guessed it to be actor Shah Rukh Khan’s bungalow Mannat in Bandra, Mumbai.
Yes, this iconic place is at Bandra band stand..
— Rajul Vaidya (@rajulvaidya) September 8, 2023
Villa viena house of parsi businessman at bandra west mumbai now it’s mannat shahrukh Khan’s house.
— Nawal K Joshi♏ (@i_am_nawal) September 7, 2023
The post has by far garnered over 139.1K views and over 500 likes on X (formerly Twitter). While people flooded the comments section with “Mannat”. Many also thought of explaining the history behind it.
It’s seems like this now #Mannat pic.twitter.com/8sVgabMUo6
— Gulzar (@imsag_11) September 7, 2023
There are 2 bungalows next to each other. Both owned by kekoo gandhy. Later one was sold to Shahrukh khan.
Land is still owned by the byramjee jeejeebhoy trust.— Atul Tolani (@splinetol) September 8, 2023
One user also posted a picture of SRK’s Mannat, and others mentioned it was in Bandra’s bandstand. Another user said that it was earlier a Vienna house owned by a Parsi businessman, who then sold it to SRK.
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What are your views on this? Did you guess it right?
Cover Image Courtesy: @MumbaiHeritage/X(formerly Twitter)