Aamir Khan rents four Bandra flats for £23,000 a month as Shah Rukh Khan becomes his temporary neighbour
With his Virgo Housing Society home under major redevelopment, Aamir Khan shifts into Wilnomona Apartments, just 750 metres from Shah Rukh Khan’s rented Puja Casa residence.
Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan are now staying just 750 metres apart
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Bollywood star Aamir Khan rents four flats in Mumbai’s Pali Hill for £23,000 (₹24.5 lakh) per month.
Lease signed for five years amid redevelopment of his Virgo Housing Society apartments.
Khan paid £137,000 (₹1.46 crore) in deposit; rent to increase 5% yearly.
New address is 750m from Shah Rukh Khan’s temporary home at Puja Casa.
Aamir Khan has temporarily moved into four rented luxury apartments in Mumbai’s elite Bandra West locality, paying a hefty £23,000 (₹24.5 lakh) per month in rent. The Bollywood actor made the move as his own apartments at the Virgo Housing Society in Pali Hill are currently being redeveloped into an ultra-luxury tower.
Aamir Khan rents four Bandra flats for ₹24.5 lakh a monthGetty Images
Why did Aamir Khan rent new flats in Bandra?
The Dangal star has entered a five-year lease agreement, starting May 2025, for four units in Wilnomona Apartments, located in Pali Hill, a premium residential hub in Bandra West. According to real estate documents accessed via Zapkey.com, Khan paid a security deposit of £137,000 (₹1.46 crore), with additional costs of £3,750 (₹4 lakh) for stamp duty and £19 (₹2,000) for registration. The contract includes a 45-month lock-in period and an annual rent escalation of 5%.
This decision comes as the actor’s own residential building, Virgo Housing Society, is undergoing a complete overhaul. Khan reportedly owns 12 apartments in the society, which will be replaced by a high-end residential project with sea-facing units priced at over £940 (₹1 lakh) per sq ft.
Aamir Khan moves near Shah Rukh Khan during home redevelopmentGetty Images
Where is Aamir Khan living now?
Aamir's current address is Wilnomona Apartments, located just 750 metres from Puja Casa, the temporary home of fellow superstar Shah Rukh Khan. The two Khans, often in the spotlight for their professional rivalry and mutual respect, now find themselves practically neighbours.
Shah Rukh Khan has taken up temporary residence in Puja Casa while his iconic home Mannat is being renovated, with reports suggesting an additional floor is being constructed. Puja Casa is owned by producer Vashu Bhagnani’s family, including his children Jackky Bhagnani and Deepshikha Deshmukh.
Aamir Khan’s Pali Hill bungalow enters redevelopment phaseGetty Images
What is the Virgo Housing Society redevelopment?
Located in Pali Hill, the Virgo Society is being redeveloped into one of the most expensive residential projects in the city. Reports suggest the new tower will feature apartments priced well above £9.4 million (₹100 crore), with premium amenities and a panoramic sea view. Once complete, Aamir is expected to receive upgraded flats in the same location.
This trend of celebrities opting for high-end rentals during redevelopment is growing in Mumbai’s affluent circles. Unlike earlier times when stars moved into hotels or service apartments, today’s Bollywood elite prefer renting full-fledged luxury homes within their comfort zones.
Which Bollywood stars live in Bandra and Pali Hill?
Pali Hill and Bandra West remain the go-to locations for India’s top film personalities. Alongside Aamir and Shah Rukh, stars like Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor, and Rekha reside in the area. Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh are also preparing to move into their newly purchased quadruplex apartment at Bandra Bandstand with their daughter Dua.
With Mumbai’s luxury housing market witnessing skyrocketing prices and a wave of redevelopments, celebrities like Aamir Khan are setting new benchmarks, even with their temporary homes.
Bollywood horror has gone mainstream: bigger budgets, big stars, family audiences.
Roots: Mahal (1949) to the Ramsay Brothers' cult run of the 1970s–80s.
Modern hits pair folklore with comedy, as seen in Tumbbad, Stree, Munjya, and now Thamma & Maa.
Technical leap: prosthetics and CGI have "gone to the next level"; budgets now reach mainstream scale.
Remember when Bollywood horror meant creaky doors in a haunted haveli and a woman in a white sari? Forget it. We are in an era where a ghost's main ambition is not revenge, but finding a wife, where ancient mythology collides with suburban kitchens, and a mother's love can literally summon a goddess. The genre has exploded into the mainstream, and clearly everyone is buying a ticket.
The horror revolution: How Bollywood turned ghosts, goddesses, and gore into gold Instagram/thammamovie/netflix_in/maddockfilms
Where did this all begin?
The lineage is long. Kamal Amrohi's Mahal (1949), a chilly, melodramatic original, is often cited as Hindi horror's starting point. The Ramsay Brothers then carried the torch through the 1970s and 80s, churning out roughly 30 low-budget creature features that made haunted havelis a cult staple. Their old formula was simple: lurid gore, sex, and cheap shocks because "blood and sex pulled crowds."
As Deepak Ramsay puts it, "There are new stories, fresh talent, and all of this is leading to a resurgence. Films that were once niche are turning out to be blockbusters."
Kamal Amrohi's Mahal Youtube Screengrab
Why is Bollywood horror trending now?
Two things: smarter storytelling and better tech. Filmmakers stopped copying Western ghosts and started mining local myths, as seen in Tumbbad and Stree, and they mixed scares with laughs.
"The moment you get scared, your first reaction after the shock is to laugh," Ram Gopal Varma says, and that laugh is the neat trick, making scares sharable.
Aditya Sarpotdar explains the appeal bluntly: "There is a huge audience wanting to watch such movies. When catering to mass audiences, humour becomes key." His Munjya proved it: "Children pulled their parents to theatres." You cannot get more mainstream than that.
For decades, horror was the B-movie cousin no one wanted to acknowledge. Big stars stayed away, the effects were cheap, and an 'Adults' certificate locked out half the family audience. But not anymore. Maa (June 2025) saw Kajol in a mythic, bloody role that shocked and thrilled the audience. Thamma (Diwali 2025) is being billed as "a bloody love story" with Ayushmann Khurrana and Rashmika Mandanna in a vampire-romance that pairs fangs with dance numbers. Sequels and studio universes hits like Stree 2, Chhorii 2, and lighter fare like The Bhootnii keep the pipeline full.
Deepak Ramsay even points to the tech shift: "From as little as £20,000 to make a horror film, now budgets are closer to £7.2 million."
Veterans say prosthetics and CGI have "gone to the next level," so monsters finally look convincing.
Bollywood horror is having a moment, and it's brilliant
However, the quick, messy truth is the genre still trips; it suffers from a tonal wobble and silly beats, but it is honest. Horror has stopped hiding at midnight and is selling tickets at matinées. Directors joke about the next move. "I would love to see Shah Rukh Khan attempt horror," says Sarpotdar, but the point is clear. What was once pulpy trash has become a lively, profitable stretch of mainstream cinema. It is rough around the edges, loud, sometimes ridiculous, and that is exactly why it is working.
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