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Living in palatial homes, owning regal cars, having in millions & billions in bank accounts are just some of the bonus points that come with being a celebrity. The real cherry on the cake is buying an island of one’s own to spend fortunes, just to take a few moments away from limelight.

Having a private island to spend a holiday, explore and relax is a dream, but not when you are an A-list celebrity and wish to enjoy time away from the snooping paparazzi.

Check out some of the envious celebrity getaways that are sure to make you drool-

Mel Gibson

At $15 million, Mel Gibson has one of the largest privately owned islands in the South-Pacific Ocean which he reportedly bought only for his peace. The Expendables star gorged on this 5400 acre island after the release of his controversial film Passion of the Christ in 2005. Unlike the other Hollywood biggies, Gibson has still not constructed any luxury resort or boutique hotels on the property yet.

Eddie Murphy

Rooster Cay is a paradise in the Bahamas owned by Eddie Murphy. One of the most highly paid actors of Hollywood, Eddie always has moolah ringing in his treasury. Purchased for $15 million in 2007, Eddie plans to develop an opulent resort on the property.

Johny Depp

Jack Sparrow aka Johnny Depp is the esteemed owner of Little Halls Pond Cay, a 45 acre island in the Bahamas. The property is surrounded by palm trees and six untouched white sand beaches, each of which is named after a member of his family. At just $3.6 million how could the pirate not have his own Caribbean island?

Leonardo Dicaprio

The Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo Di Caprio purchased his private island Belize in 2005 for a reasonable amount of $1.75 million! The star plans to build an 80-room eco-friendly beach villa with a solar-powered air strip installed on the island for visitors to fly and come!

Nicholas Cage

Although not his first venture into island real estate, Nicholas Cage purchased Leaf Cay in the Bahamas with a view to creating an exotic getaway for himself. The star bought this luxurious property way back in 2006 at a price of $3.6 million. He already owned a home on the Paradise Island but sold it off 3 years later, apparently because of an endangered native reptile.

Shahrukh Khan

Last but not the least, the Badshah of Bollywood, Shahrukh Khan has a Signature Villa in Palm Jumeirah, Dubai. Bearing a price tag of $2.8 million, Set on a 14,000 sq ft plot, the 2-storey villa has six bedrooms as well as a remote controlled two-car garage.

Bollywood stars owning properties abroad

Our b-town folks are the most extravagant personalities in the country having assorted ways of spending their wealth. While some celebs like to buy luxurious cars, others like to indulge in holidaying at exotic destinations; but investing in real estate has and will always remain the favourite way of parking funds.

In this post, we feature some of the Bollywood celebrities who have bought properties at foreign locations.

Beginning with the Bachchans, the senior legend has five houses in India. But did you know that he owns a pad in the city of Paris? This house in the French capital was a gift to Amitabh Bachchan from His wife Jaya on his birthday. Like father, like son; junior Bachchan, Abhishek has acquired a property in Dubai’s Jumeirah’s Golf Estates, which spreads over 10, 600 square feet at a price of nearly 15 to 35 million UAE Dirhams!

Next comes King Khan who owns several luxury properties in India and abroad. Shahrukh Khan possesses a bungalow, Signature Villa, worth 17.84 crore in Dubai. The villa, measuring 8500×14000 square feet has a swimming pool and a private beach. The real estate mogul of Bollywood also owns an apartment in central London’s posh park lane worth £20 million.

Khiladi Kumar, Akshay has a special place for Canada in his heart. If reports are to be believed, this Canada lover has bought himself an entire hill in Toronto! The actor possesses several apartments in Mumbai along with a posh bungalow. Adding to the majestic property list is the bungalow he owns on a Mauritian beach.

The Royal couple of Bollywood, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan are fond of touring exotic places all over the world. The Chhote Nawab already has close to ten plush apartments at various locations. Because of their love for glamorous vacation requirements, the couple has bought a holiday home in Gstaad, Switzerland.

The most stylish superstar of B-town, Hrithik Roshan earns majorly through his family production house, Filmkraft. The younger Roshan has a wealth of nearly Rs. 1500 crore and enthusiastically invests in lifestyle and fitness brand, HRX.

Mr.  & Mrs. Raj Kundra, the owner of an IPL team have a 7 bedroom bungalow called the Raj Mahal in Weybridge, Surrey and property in Mayfair as well as in Oxford Street of London. Besides, Raj has also gifted Shilpa Shetty a posh apartment on the 19^th floor of an aristocratic tower in Dubai.

The heartthrob of every girl in India, John Abraham may not be very lucky with his films but surely has a good hand at business. The model turned actor not only owns a 60,000 square feet property in Mumbai but also has a beautiful house in Bell Air, Los Angeles, USA. The house is situated next to the homes of Jennifer Anniston and Angelina Jolie.

Shahrukh’s Mannat

It is well known fact that Shahrukh Khan is the second richest celebrity in the world. He owns one of the most expensive bungalows in Mumbai which is six storey high sea-facing and have jaw dropping exteriors and interiors. The interiors of Mannat is been designed by Gauri Khan, the wife of Shahrukh Khan. This bungalow has huge entertainment room, guest room, library, drawing room, swimming pool, a basement car parking as well as gym. This bungalow has great interiors as well as concept as it also has private office of King Khan. However; ShahRukh Khan had bought his bungalow from the Bai Khorshed Bhanu Sanjana Trust and later he named it as Mannat which means is “a Vow to the Gods”.

Born: November 2, 1965 , New Delhi
Height: 1.73 m
Spouse: Gauri Khan (m. 1991)
Children: AbRam Khan, Suhana Khan, Aryan Khan

You can also reach him on:

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/iamsrk

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IamSRK

You tube:  https://www.youtube.com/user/HugMeimFamous

Google Plus:  https://plus.google.com/+ShahRukhKhan/posts

Rare images of Shahrukh Khan sea facing bungalow :

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John Abraham´s Villa

May be, John Abraham is not the King of Bollywood, but when it comes to living apartments, then surely you will find anyone better then John because in this article you are going to see that how he is living like a King. His Villa which is on 4000 sq ft area in sky is the proof of that. Architect Alan Abraham, who is brother of John Abraham have designed the luxurious apartment is infused with serenity¸ comfort and luxury.
Duplex penthouse of John Abraham is comprises of two separate apartments at the top two floors of the residential building with heavenly sights towards the sea. The windows of the apartments are able to provide beautiful view of Arabian Sea line which adds stars in the interior beauty of his gorgeous flat. However; it is well known fact that this famous Villa in the Sky is second to the Shahrukh Khan´s house Mannat.
Apart from the beautiful interiors, apartment is able to get the plenty of natural light as well. For this beautiful architecture, this design of Architect Alan Abraham has been nominated for international architecture awards. Here are few peek of John Abraham’s much talked apartment ¨Villa in the Sky, which is heaven from design and comfort´s perspective.

Mr. Subhash Runwal – Chairman Runwal group

Subhash Runwal, who is one of the India’s newest billionaire, makes his debut this year with a worth of $1 billion fortune, hails from Dhulia, which is a small town in Maharashtra state. His grandfather was a jeweler but when Mr. Runwal was a teenager, the family had faced a very hard times. This young boy lad the group of five siblings and left the town Dhulia to study commerce in Pune city, after completing graduating in commerce to do his chartered accountancy he moved to Mumbai and on that time he was having less than $2 in his pocket at age 21.

Professional career:

After completing chartered accountancy he joined Ernst & Ernst as first job where he got an American posting in St Louis, Missouri, but after six to eight months he decided to pack up and return home because of different lifestyle, says Runwal, seated in his suburban office in Mumbai. Behind his desk is a painting, the handiwork of his daughter, which he proudly displays. His first abode as a young lad was a modest studio in a far-off suburb in Mumbai that he rented after landing a job at a chemical firm as an accountant. I can do it attitude helped him a lot to acquire a reputation as the go-to guy for dealing with hidebound bureaucracy. As he was able to speak local Marathi language fluently, so he was able to strike a rapport with local bureaucrats and politicians as well and they was giving all impossible tasks to him, recalls Runwal.

On that time one of his major tasks was to lobbying the central government to ban the import of a chemical, which was manufacturing by his company. Still he can recall that this task took 52 trips to Delhi over a year for Runwal to secure the crucial ban that enabled the company to start reaping profits. In this process Runwal had built up his network in bureaucratic circles and then he he decided to put everything at risk, choosing real estate as his field of play.

Entry in real estate market:

Runwal had chanced upon an opportunity hidden in a draconian law called the Urban Land (Ceiling & Regulation) Act of 1976, which he had studied in detail an under this particular law the government imposed limits on land ownership and had the power to acquire vacant urban land as this law has been repealed in most parts. Than Runwal acquired his first ever plot of 22 acres in a central suburb of Mumbai, which is an area that was eventually to become his stronghold in the property market. After making his first property deal and never looked back as his specialty was to buy litigious plots or lands that had fallen into the ambit of the land ceiling law and then he work on his way into getting the titles cleared. Due to putting his name on those projects, he becomes famous for providing low cost apartments aimed at the middle class. His one of the notable project called Runwal Nagar in the suburb of Thane was a cluster of 16 buildings however; after 18 months of the initial sale, the price had more than doubled. The more he added that, our customers were people who had never owned their own homes before and most of them were from middle class. They would come to my office with boxes of Indian sweets and touch my feet.

Milestone of success:

Now Runwal was building his own real estate empire and he harbored the dream of becoming an industrialist so he got into manufacturing arm as well. Later he expanded into steel and pharma but those businesses unraveled. Than eventually he sold out and renewed his focus on real estate while his Runwal Group was still busy in building the low cost affordable middle class housing and it has moved up several notches and now has projects in tony south Mumbai where it is building luxury residences for the uber rich.

Entry of new generation in business:

Later in 1995, the entry of his two B-school trained sons in his privately-held family business make him to enter into malls business. The more he added that sons pushed me to market their projects more aggressively and create a new corporate identity for Runwal as his older son Sandeep is an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and the younger son, Subodh, is an MBA from Northeastern University. Runwal has managed to get the backing of the Singapore government’s GIC, which invested in one of its malls in Mumbai, the more he added that completing projects on time is critical in his business, but his none of the projects never get stuck for approvals as nothing was impossible for him due to high connection with bureaucrats and politicians. Lately, Runwal has been picking up big plots in suburban Mumbai, which ensures a long pipeline of new projects.

After certain time he put all his efforts to giving back to society as he donates $1.5 million every year to various causes. He built two hostels in Navi Mumbai and now he offers education scholarships to the less well off. Now every morning he walks on the promenade opposite his sea-front home and counts Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan as his neighbor and the more he added that “I’ve achieved more than I could have ever dream of.”