QUOTE(Mandrake @ Jan 31 2007, 03:16 PM)

No. He was never there. In fact I stepped in after there was a big issue. Wonder if you followed the story then. The structure was listed in the Heritage Structures of India. Meaning you can not change the way it looks. You can re-construct, but the end result must look like it has always looked.
Someone else, who was there earlier carried out large scale changes. The wooden staircase that goes to the first floor (refer movies like Mr. India, Tezaab) was replaced with a helicoidal R.C.C. staircase. Some extra windows were opened up. Even the front facade was to be changed.
Bandra residents raised such a stink that the architect was de-licensed and SRK had to appease a lot of ruffled feathers.
Mrs. Khan was in charge. And yes, the high life comes with an arrogance that is rather stinky. Not something I'd like to write about here. Connections are flaunted big.
(My experience with Suneil Shetty was exactly opposite

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The rich and famous have their way..I did read abt it a couple of yrs ago was it?He is smart , he has all the right connections, and, is very manipulative i hear.....there i go again
QUOTE(Mandrake @ Jan 31 2007, 04:20 PM)

Suneil invited us to his house for a biz-meeting. The door opens into a dining -cum - living. The entire family was at the end of their meal as we stepped in. He insisted we have food with them. Simple food. (I had this whole idea that these fellows eat stuff the way they show in the movies. But here, his meal was no different than the one I have in my house).
The family too was extremely down to earth. No airs at all. Sunil was in striped pyjamas for this biz-meet

His comments too were of a worldly-wise person. Even other topics we chatted about, he could be the guy one meets anywhere.
When I asked him how he was so much in touch with reality, he was very disarming. "I was a businessman for donkey's years before I joined films." he said.
Truly grounded in reality.
(The project didn't take off over some money matters.)
I have met him at a friend's house in mangalore and manipal a couple of times, he runs a botique and a hotel at mangalore, and is supposedly very good to his staff and generally liked by evryone.....but unfortunately he is a bad actor, no denying that