Mukesh Ambani, Anil Ambani once used to live in a one-room chawl? Inside photos of 'Kabootar Khana', it had 1 bathroom for...
The Ambani family is widely recognized for its immense wealth and lavish lifestyle. From Nita Ambani's choice of costly fashion, jewelry, and handbags to grandiose weddings and parties, everything related to them creates buzz on social media platforms. Most notably, Mukesh Ambani lives in one of the most expensive residences on the planet, Antilia. While his brother Anil Ambani lives in his luxurious home, Abode. But life wasn't always this lavish.
Earlier, Mukesh and Anil Ambani and their family lived in one of the numerous chawls in Mumbai – a single room for seven family members with only one toilet shared by around a hundred other people. In a chawl housing around 500 people, residents frequently had to stand in long lines just to access water. While many may associate this with what they only know from films, this was the footprint reality that Mukesh and Anil Ambani experienced for many years.
Seven members of the Ambani family shared a small single room and used a common toilet with about 100 people. In a chawl with almost 500 residents, they had to wait in line for water and other shared facilities. While such hardship is frequently depicted in Bollywood movies, this was the actual experience of the Ambani brothers for many years.
Anil Ambani became emotional while speaking about his childhood memories on Simi Garewal's show Rendezvous with Simi Garewal. Ambani recounted that the year was 1959, the year his father Dhirubhai Ambani left his job at a petrol pump in Yemen and returned to India. The family was resettled from Gujarat to Mumbai and was facing daily struggles to survive. When Dhirubhai no longer had a stable source of income, he maintained a family by selling spices to make a living.
The Ambani family used to live in a place in Mumbai called Kabootar Khana, which was an overcrowded place. Within that area, there stood a chawl, called Jai Hind Estate, that housed over 500 people in one building. The Ambani family resided on the 4th floor of the building. The area had been named 'Kabootar Khana' due to the large number of pigeons that gathered in the area. People would feed the pigeons, resulting in flocks of them occupying the area.
In that chawl, the Ambani family of seven shared a one-room house that had one kitchen. They did not have a private bath. There was one common toilet, shared by about 100 people, and there was very limited drinking water, and they had limited drinking water. Long lines formed for drinking water, and the family somehow managed to get by in these difficult conditions. In spite of this, the family was able to manage. They had limited clothing as well, and Mukesh and Anil Ambani often had to share the same set of clothing to rotate between.
The Jai Hind chawl, where the Ambani family lived, was the largest chawl in that area. Their home had no bathroom. Each floor had reportedly over 100 houses, all sharing just one toilet.
Anil Ambani reflected during a later interview that weekends were the most wonderful time of the week at home. The family would eagerly await Sundays, when he and Mukesh had an opportunity to fulfill their passion for football. Dhirubhai Ambani, their father, used to take them to the local Udupi hotel, where there was a fixed menu of idli-sambar. They weren't allowed to order anything beyond that.
Due to Dhirubhai Ambani's effort and skill, Reliance Industries was created, which produced billions of dollars for Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani. Mukesh Ambani lives in Antilia, one of the biggest homes in the world, worth Rs 15,000 crores, while Anil Ambani resides with his comrades in Abode, worth Rs 5,000 crores.
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