Mukesh Ambani House Antilla Pictures, Photos proves its worth

Mukesh Ambani’s little homestead which has three swimming pools and the (rumoured) captive BMW garage and six- storey parking lot under the three helipads, will make you think about the opening of the 40s Hollywood classic Citizen Kane. The bravura sequence runs under a radio news report of the death of the ailing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, the camera floating with the mists over the private castle and estate Kane had constructed for himself, with spires, minarets and whole wings lifted and re- assembled from various castles and chateaus all over the world, with a private zoo and whatnot in the vast grounds that surrounded the castle. Kane called his residence Xanadu, after the mythical palace of the Kubla Khan, and it’s not difficult to see the link between that Xanadu where Kane finally dies, shattered and alone, and this new Antilla.


It’s a fantastic idea, yet a logical and believable one. The thing is, I suspect Mukesh Ambani is already there. Looking at photographs of Antilla I see it currently cleverly disguised as a teetering, expensive, steel and glass quotation of Nebuchadnezzar’s hanging gardens of Babylon. The home contains a health club with a gym and dance studio, a swimming pool, a ballroom, guestrooms, a variety of lounges, and a 50-seater cinema. Three helicopter pads have been installed on the roof, and a car park for 160 vehicles sits on the ground floor. Clearly more space than a housekeeper, or full hotel staff can handle, the Ambani family has employed a staff of 600 to tend to the home!



Mukesh Ambani’s home for his small family of five that’s come up right beside the Mafatlal Estate, and seeing the pictures of the twenty- seven storey tower, my first thought is that the sheth from old Ahmedabad has finally arrived on Altamont Road, here to expose the exclusive neighbourhood for what it’s been for some time now — a highly exclusive, surveilled and guarded pol of endless, vertical one-up-manship.