SRK House Mannat

This guide to Mannat in Mumbai starts long before it became a Bollywood pilgrimage site, when a nineteenth-century Raja of Mandi built the seafront villa as a gift for his wife and called it Villa Vienna. It follows the house through a Parsi merchant family and Kekoo Gandhy, whose salon next door helped shape modern Indian art from this stretch of Bandra seafront, before a quiet cultural era there dissolved with a sale to developers. Look at the gate itself, where fans have pressed their faces against the railings for years.