Gauri Khan once said of the family’s Delhi house: “I wanted all of it to stay together.” Now the whole building does. Shah Rukh Khan has bought the last two floors of the Panchsheel Park property where he and Gauri began their married life, according to a Moneycontrol report relayed by The Indian Express.
The price, per that report, was approximately Rs 37 crore. The actor already held the basement and the first floor of the residential building in South Delhi. With the second and third floors added, he is now its sole owner.
The plot and the price
The building stands on a 1,200-square-yard plot, roughly 10,800 square feet or nearly a quarter of an acre, in one of South Delhi’s most sought-after neighbourhoods. The report puts the underlying land at nearly Rs 34,260 per square foot. Both figures are Moneycontrol’s, as relayed by The Indian Express.
Where the couple started out
Shah Rukh and Gauri were married on October 25, 1991, in three ceremonies on the same day: a registered civil marriage, a traditional Hindu wedding and a Nikah. The Delhi house was their first home after the wedding. Later the actor moved to Mumbai to pursue films full time.
Gauri has spoken before about what the place means to her. In an earlier interview with iDiva she described how it came about. “Our Delhi home is almost 20 years old. As many know, I am from Delhi and have lived a major part of my life here, so I thought it would be a great idea to buy and design a home close to my mom’s house,” she said.
She said the house holds the objects the family gathered over the years. “When I walk into that home, every corner is full of memories, from when the kids were growing up, to their teenage years, and now that they are adults,” Gauri said.
There is a “nostalgia wall” too, where childhood keepsakes hang framed. Gauri listed Suhana’s makeup brushes, Aryan’s badminton racket, AbRam’s first birthday gift, Shah Rukh’s artwork, postcards and antiques the actor gave her over the years. “That is my favourite corner of the house,” she said.
The Indian Express described the purchase as making the home where the couple began married life entirely theirs once again. It was the couple’s first address as a married pair.
