This is something by and large doesn’t goes well with the people who are used to sophistication. They would love to have best of anything, no matter it is from toilet to the yachts or from people who work for them to companions they have their choices always. It reflects their exclusive taste of life and symbol of their unparalleled approach to the different dimensions of life. Whatever they do; it is considered as best and to be followed. May be that is their power to pay for anything to do or ask for anything. And we the ordinary folks, love to adore them. This is life and the society is following the unwritten rule from the times of our ancestors when the most powerful were chosen to rule and worshiped by the meek and weak despite so many foolish things they did and blunders they commit. We love to forget those divine mistakes you know. Money and power has such the aura.
Now here is that our own Mr. Mukesh Ambani; the 4th wealthiest man on the planet whom, I count as a man with Midas hands. Like any celebrity; whatever he does is a news and this occasion the news was that he was shifting to his new home in the auspicious occasion of Navratras. It was a home; a dream home not only for him but for the rest of mumbaikars as well, I hope.
Passing through the road where the construction of ‘Antilia’ was in full swing, often I would dream of something extraordinary thing happening around and will take a sorcerous shape which will be a marvel of it’s own kind. How can anyone avoid the hypnotic charm of ‘Burj –Al-Arab’ even if you can’t afford to be the guest of this exotic hotel of Dubai ? This was our ‘ Burj-Al-Arab’ ; an Indian reply to the big guns of Hollywood at least. 
That name ‘Antilia’ sounded so sweet to me and I was ready to present this creation to rest of the world from my blog. A proud feeling for what we had here in Mumbai. There was every reason to believe that it was going to be the example of magnanimousness. It would cost him whopping Rs. 270 Billion. It is up to 27 floor high with 175 meter height capturing around 37 Square Kilometer of space. At the roof I there were going to be 3 Helipads and on lower floors small trees could be planted. On completion it could accommodate around 200 cars at its basement. The kind of palace which would require more than 500 staff to maintain it and then his highness King Ambani along with his family will look after his kingdom from this palace.
The beauty of the name ‘Antilia’ even made me wondering what would be life like inside this building which is names after an island and I was eagerly waiting for the completion of construction.
Whenever I passed through the way I saw; precisely I felt; that work was still under progress; any worthwhile thing takes it’s own time to complete and specially in India it takes more than that, I thought.
And it was last day that I heard of Mr. Ambani is in. Just for the moment, I thought; may be he was in hurry to shift due to auspicious occasion. And I could not prevent myself from admiring surprise that how quick the job was completed because anytime in these years, at the first glance tof he whole project site, it never appeared to me being completed within next six months and all of sudden the shifting of Mr. Mukesh Ambani definitely brought some astonishment into me and I planned to have a look into it; of course from outside.
Here it was …….the so called ‘Antilia’. My God !! Is that the genius been talk of the town? Who was the Mr. Eiffel behind this giant structure? I was hardly better than stunned. In short all I can describe the building… horrible. For the sake of the beauty of art of architecture; all I felt as if few carton boxes were kept one over other randomly and that too in a hurry. I just could not stop myself thinking, I am sorry Mr. Ambani, it is your property that the building looked as if a beautiful building was struck with some missile and this was the leftover part. I don’t understand architecture but there is something which went wrong completely. I wonder; was the technology went too handicapped to accommodate the state of the art equipments and features inside the building that the outlook of the building went so hapless. Who was the architect? This could have been a life time opportunity for him which he missed for good.
All that hype vapourised within seconds and I felt cheated, stranded at the place from where I was watching to building because for the last so many months I have been seeing the same building in the same shape and colour hoping some noticeable changes before M. Ambani would step into. And here I knew that the building is complete and Ambani is already in.
Now..Now...Now…. now what? My dream of presenting a beautiful building to rest of world scattered. What they say in Hindi "Hathi aaya Hathi aaya, Hathi aaya aur pad ke chala gaya"!
All I could mutter myself “Are ye kya bana diya bhai?’’
