May 2 2008World's Most Expensive House Costs A Lot

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Mukesh Ambani, the fifth richest man in the world, is having a new house built in Mumbai. Mukesh made his money as head of Mumbai-based petrochemical company Reliance industries. His net worth is over $43 billion and he, his wife, and 3 kids currently live in a 22-story tower (the whole thing). You know, my girlfriend and I once lived in a Ford Festiva for 7 weeks. So why anybody needs a $2 billion, 550 foot high, 400,000 square foot home for five people is beyond me. I mean, we could have accommodated three more people if we had had a Taurus or some other mid-sized sedan. Hit the link to see some more pictures and a link to an in-depth article explaining all the crap inside, but I can't write about this anymore, it's just too frustrating. But you know what? While Mukesh may be rich in a monetary sense, my life is rich in tradition. Yep, traditionally I come home from work at six, drink eight beers and a pint of bourbon, eat whatever culinary abortion my wife has prepared, then pass out. And a tradition like that, Mukesh, is something money can't buy.

Several more renderings of the interior, and a link to the article, after the jump.

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Inside the World's First Billion-Dollar Home
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Reader Comments

Nice to see that two billion still can't buy you even a shred of taste. I'd have to kill myself if I lived there.

Still in India. Can't be that nice.

I'd rather live in a castle; but that's just me.

Thank God you gave me someone new to hate! My disdain for Oko Ono has worn thin.

#1 hits the nail on the head. What a piece of crap. A chandelier in every room, gold glittery accents everywhere. 18 types of wood used on every floor, with 47 different types of light fixtures. Hopeless. Then again, it would make a great whorehouse.

The royal penis is clean, sire...

wow just imagine if there was an


EARTHQUAKE!!!! ::rumble rumbe:: ::building collapses:: ::kiss goodbye to expensive house::

I wonder how much it would cost to get the constant smell of sewage and curry out of the air, being as it's in India and all.

Every once in awhile science has to break the boundaries. I think breeding a Vegas hotel with a cruise ship and sticking it all in a shell that looks like a New York ghetto was a daring move. Bravo, Mukesh Ambani.... Plus I have to imagine that taking a dump on lower class society is so much more fun from 550 feet.... What's the Indian phrase for "look out belowwwwwww"?

They should just paint a big bullseye on it........

So like, what do they wear while lounging at home? A tux? 'Cos anything less would spoil the whole look .

#1 really hits it on the head. How tacky.

And I don't want to seem like a hater, but facts are facts. and #8 is correct.

There is no smell in the world like India. Sewer, human waste, and curry all blended together for a smell you never forget--but desparately want to.

If I were this family, I'd do what most prominent Indians do: move to London.

London is much better--even with all of the government cameras.

Mark my words, this mansion and display of hubris will go down as a disgrace on the country. (My country.) Such wasteful bragging.

NOSTRADAMUS PREDICTS:


Prediction: this monstrosity collapses to the ground.

Advice: don't use local labor.


NOSTRADAMUS HAS SPOKEN.


the other rich men of the world don't need to show off their money so obsuredly. Warren buffet, bill gates, hell even brad pitt, give insane amounts of their money away to better the world. And this guy is indian, lives in a country that is FILLED with poverty(not to mention the fucking crazy deformed babies born monthly, lookup spiderbaby)...and this guy couldn't think of a better way to improve the world around him than to build a giant home? ...so his shithole country can look on and say "well maybe ill go to school and be like that d00sh".

You have to be sensible with your money, yeah its nice to have nice things, everyone agrees with this,but this is just sick, india is a horrible country and this isn't going to even remotely help it.

hmm reading yalls reaction yall real americans that dont know a crap about other countries india aint that bad like america it doesnot contain only gettho's

SHAUNJON HAS SPOKEN.....

but the interior is tacky as hell

schmuck

@ Jesse

oh sure that's what we all eat, curry, every meal of the day, every day of the week. While wallowing in our own filth mind you. Fucking idiot. You eat hamburgers all day too? bitch

Everyone that is compaining about how tacky this place is obviously has never been to India. Everything is decorated like crazy. Even the trucks they use to transport junk are painted up like whores. I went to a wedding there. They put on what had to be 20 lbs of jewlery on the bride, including what looked like a solid gold belt. This is nothing compared to what could have been done. I love India and would love to go back, as long as the beggars would stop grabbing at me.

@ #1

You'll thank Mukesh Ambani when the house transforms into a giant robot and saves us all from some sort of giant intergalactic megalobster. Those chandeliers are the power crystals that focus the fusion cannon in the left arm.

comment #20 really made me chuckle...when that giant intergalactic megalobster does appear, Mukesh can pull out his beta capsule and become Ultraman to quash the threat...oh wait...Ultraman's Japanese...damn...Mumbai is in BIG trouble

@8, tell me about it! I went into an Indian restaurant once (with an Indian guy) and it smelled like a wet dog rolled in a sweaty sock topped off by the breath of 2 girls 1 cup.

Then the guy said: I'm not from India! I'm Native American!

Get it! LOLOL! Native Americ....I thought he was...LOL! Whew! And then I said: If you're not Indian, what's that dot doing on your head? LOLOL! Was that funnny!

Oh well, I liked it...

I'm eating raman noodles as I read this.

needs more deodorant.

ignor-anus-es
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ROFL #20 : )

i'd like to say that no matter how smelly most indians are.. they're still an intelligent race (perhaps more intelligent than some white-skinned people out there). i wish they could do something to better their economy instead of using all their taxes on military shit. and they should also try heavy-duty deodorant.

I think indians are intelligent.... and they are going to take our jobs !
Shit, they need deodorant and not computers.

Camel. Eye of needle. Anyone?

But I'm sorry... That's just overly decadent and not even executed properly. This is coming from someone who doesn't need to work for at least the next twenty years, so it should mean... Oh, I don't know--something.

27,28 you guys are so dumb....lol


what are you talking about "intelligent race" hahaha.......dumbass- race is literally construct....there are no actual separate distinct groups- just superficial variations- skin color, etc.

realize there is a difference between real life -biology and what you see in Lord of The Rings.
i assume you guys also think the world is flat
anyone can access the human gnome project on the net and read this....haha...dont they have schools in the states
"all indian people smell"....hahaha. theres over 1 billion of them...you met them all..
you make me ashamed to be white- you dumbass give indians, asians and everyone reading this site a reason to laugh at white people....they call us stupid because of white trash like you

to an american education, urge for self- improvement is alien to the same extent as opportunism, and blindly following any leaders like lemmings off a cliff is second nature
the American has no sense of individuality and cowers from leadership. they mask decisions with phrases like "will of the people" and "democracy rules" - they are not leaders ...but self- identified "civil servants" responding to the will of the poeple....even bush, someone who didnt get the popular vote hides behind the "what americans want" mentality....why ?
in a country full of immigrant peasants, you cannot find leaders.....they stayed in europe, where they still rule

people..... ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ...
1 thing guy has the shit and he spents it.

Better then those who have but are to afraid to let it go.

to you beautiful people like Jesse,scott congrats.. i guess all your life you never got the perfect picture.. No wonder you saw only 1 side of the coin....
to others take care.. People only 1 religion that is humanty... And if you need to survive the way people do in India and forr that matter in the Rest of world you would start appreciating the +ves instead of looking at the -ves
yup

I can't WAIT until I hear about the "insert natural/not so natural disaster here" that brings this ghastly monstosity down, hopefully with this leaky bag of douche and his tacky bitch wife inside. Ahh, I can hear the jackoffs at their homeowner's insurance agency keeling over from the massive heart attacks already.

idk about you guys but i don't really give a damn if i've got tacky chandeliers or, um, "18 types of wood used on every floor." it's a goddamn 22-STORY HOUSE. whether or not it smells like "sewage and curry" outside (which is a damn ignorant statement from #8, prbly a white trash piece of shit who's pissed because he can't afford that nice big double-wide), who cares when you live in an ivory tower with a theater that seats 44?! i'd never leave.

i would sneak inside this house, and live right under their noses. who would be able to find me in a 22-story house? just to mess with them, i wouldn't flush the toliet, either. actually, i wouldn't even use the toliet; i'd poop on a different chandelier every day.

35 comments and how can no one mention how -awesome- the phrase 'culinary abortion' is?

I bet that even with 2 billion it will still smell like ass...

u americans only know to hate others. mukesh has got the money & he has got the freedom to flaunt it. u only cry bcoz u dont have such mammoth structures in ur country. u are all uneducated stupids. how many of u are graduates in USA, not even 5% of ur total population. so stop worrying about indians & their curries..try to look at ur own countries which is filled with filth.

It's shameful. Really these people are totally unconscious.

Going against the grain here, I think the skyscraper-house-thingy looks really cool. Cool in that "villainous tower" sort of way, but cool nevertheless.

Dunno about living there, though.

Fuckign people are so ignorant,
just because you cant take a culture as 'clean' as your own priviledged selves,
you fail to see the goodness in another.
india is 10 times more beautiful than either england or america,
so much more tradition, the smell is nothing compared to what it has to offer,
some people are just truly ignorant,
stereotyping,
anywas,

Niice; and to think this money could have been wasted on education for his people, diversification of his portfolio, and eventual exit from oil as his country enters developing nation status (or better). Naah, this sand you-know-what is doing EXACTLY what westerners (i.e., American leadership) want them to do--waste their money on idiot bling instead of truly achieve a better future for his people. When the oil dries up, I give them ten years before this turns into a leaning tower of pisa.

ACK; I should read more closely, I ASSUMED This place was in UAE or Saudi Arabia or DUBAI, not MUMBAI.

Still...with 80% poverty in India, this was the best use this guy could get for his money?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

This is what happens when most of you foul americans can't bear the success of an Indian guy (and very soon the Indians).
I am very sure, each one of you would have fuckin widened your mouth in awe, seeing that house. And I am pretty sure, the same attitude would have been shows by you guys, if, anyone other than Mukesh did it.

I mean don't you guys just start up just on any country?

The Black-White thingy is a passe, reality now is, we can pretty much fuck you people up.

At # 8, get your nose checked, stop snorting cocks coz it has marred your smelling power. Lol!

Nice to see the jealousy-related comments. Sad gits.

fuck u jesse, i hate these stereotypes about india that all we eat is curry. u dont know shit about india and anyone else whose saying its full of shit.

Everyone has a little bit of sense on this, but its still a stupid as hell to make a house this big, I say we should kidnap this guy and make him donate those 2 billion dolars to all the hungry kids in the world, who`s in ??

Why are u haters dissing india?? & curry??
India ( && Pakistan ) Are gonna join hands And rule the world..
So all You White Load of **** Can get a life
But u wont get the amount of money mukesh has earned coz ur pathetic & ur goin 2 live a lonely cold life!! Understood??
So just shut ur mouths before U get Blazed Coz of the amount of stuff u hav rit!
Dnt u get it he's just an ordinary guy who has gifted his wife something u cant afford...She's just lucky..
now do1
By the way im mukesh's niece...

who needs a fucking house THAT BIG. even Bill Gates doesn't even have a house that big and hes the worlds richest man

money dosen't buy love from my family, education and tradition.

The burning sensations that these guys feel about this home, is coz in america its always a zero sum game. Your gain has to be other's loss. The level of criticism that is universally struck at the smell and food about India shows that that's as far as the retards can stretch their lumpy brain. If it weren't for that, how come the richest person in Uk is an Indian, Mittal and that third of all the doctors and more than half of all the software engineers are indians??
So, guys spend more money on deodarants and time on Myspace, mean while India is busy getting ahead..

looks really unsafe.........although indian construction is of course world renown for it's brilliance.

I feel really sad when I see people waste their money in extreme luxury. They never thought about the death. The distance between the live and dead is sooooo far that it’s not possible to come back to lead luxury once again. Someone might think, I myself don’t have that much money that’s why I am saying that…believe me I am not a poor guy. Still most of my and my family’s income spends on poor people. Please imagine children without food old man like your father seating in the foot path and asking for money….could Mr. Mukesh Ambani leave him like that. Around $2 billion would have saved millions of people’s life in the poor country.

I am not saying Mr. Mukesh Ambani to stay under the tree with his family and give all $2 billion to the poor…..he has 100% right to lead a luxury life because he worked very hard to be this position but should think about those people who are homeless kids crying for food and mother is not able to provide any food day after day….think about those parents feelings who’s very loving children dying for medicine for food.

Don’t think my words will make any changes to your mind but please open your eyes….
Please help the poor as much as you can. You have the power…..God gave you the opportunity to earn blessing from the people. Don’t let this opportunity to like that….

I Wish I had chance to do something more for the poor’s……….

God bless u….
Barsan

Why the sudden racist remarks from some people? Completely unnecessary.

whao! what a huge building for just 5 persons alone.well i will say it too much money.how do you expect a guy after making so much money to start reasoning like an average person he has got the money so let the young man be.please.....................................................................................................................

#31, stop being such a jackass! Not all Americans have no sense of leadership. Some of us are even potty-trained! You need to stop hating on Americans in general, pick an individual to slam. Everyone is different, some have better leadership qualities than others. And that goes for people in different cultures and of different nationalities, as well. You shouldn't bad talk an entire country full of different kinds of people, that's like me saying, "All Montanans ride horses and live on farms." And thats completely false! I know because Im Montanan. But do you see what i mean? Your grouping all Americans together and saying that we're rude, stupid followers. If you think that, then your an imbecile and im suprised you even know how to turn your computer on, much less use it.

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