So i really felt very safe in that area, it was a nice small residential area with memories where i grew up. Even 3 decades back i had the opportunity to witness many new and old cars (best available cars at that time) around my house as there were many car mechanic and car dressing and car accessories shops . So it was a hidden gem in a way and i was very happy there.
The idea of moving came up as my father passed off at an early age of mid-forties and my mother was afraid that there were some back magic by one of the persons staying in the small private apartment of 7 flats (not a co-operative society) involved by someone from Gulf family (likely Dubai) who were disliked by everyone in the apartment staying in one of the flats as my father was secretary. So we were influenced into starting the move from Sion Eat at GTB Nagar to the so-called Bollywood suburb in this way.
I was 14 then, just starting my teenage years and was initially caried away by the pomp of the town rarely knowing how the khar town works, as it seemed to be all red roses and lotuses and happy faces and bollywood celebrities bump ups, then as the area was likely witnessing a Bollywood boom and also seemed to be a good residential town by itself. At that age i really did'nt travel that much beyond the beyond the 3-5 lanes of the residential society so little did i understand real estate. A person is technically wrong in not wearing a helmet but in a buylane outside ones house its a fine mechanism and not a law to save peoples life but trouble people. The need to travel around at the dirty corners of the vandre town was not a need and nothing untoward came my way as i never went.
Little did i realize that half the people living in the new building had some gulf connections, not that all the people from Gulf are bad but at times one experience causes an opinion. Also little did i know that the area though by itself a nice cozy residential corner was surrounded by slums which eventually will have so high political ambitions of growth/redevelopment of slums that it will cause a nuisance in the aura and energy shifts of the small town where i live.
There were residential bungalows around the place with actresses like Tina munim staying just next door at the new Khar area.
Slowly the areas were likely deliberately neglected by the government ( if i am correct there has been a presence of congress, rpi, bjp and shiv sena in my area for the past 3 decades and none of them have done much to make this area much better. Actually, maybe it is just the real estate location which now i am much aware of how to value a true real estate residential area.
If i am correct though it is under advocate Shellar for the past decade plus (this mla shellar himself has grown a lot politically and is likely the BJP Mumbai president).
So move from the GTB Nagar then was a peace and there were not many Maharashtrians then and no sign of Muslims and very few Jains in Sion a peaceful though low profile small area to a area close to the slums in the khar east and the railway track on one side and BMC colony on the other side and the whole of slums in the EAST area. FYI, these slums in the east were a witness to fire and kerosene bombs during the Mumbai riots, and now that is a bad past which every one has forgotten and slowly the slum and the east area is being redeveloped.
So now i realize that it has become a mess with so many commercial establishments being developed here and the BMC allowing the running of hotel and night establishments and discos beyond midnight at late. It is clearly a way that the governments have neglected this area.
Additionally there are so many commercial establishments that are inv each and every corner of this residential area that riding on a 2 wheeler or walking is not always good, besides that even RTO officers from anywhere will stop you for not wearing a helmet, ( WHat helmet in a bylane where speed cannot go beyond 10 km???? this is just MODI time fine raj.. laws are meant for protecting people and it is really stressful to go in the roads with a helmet just next door or next by lane.. .
Not only that, the east Kalanager area which was a swamp and a not that high real estate area is now developed into a the financial hub of Mumbai the Mumbai's BKC with apartments selling at over 20 crores is a joke and then the slums in the east and the commercial establishments and hotels area and the BMC colony and the bandh slum it is like another hell box.
As i understand and know residential real estate i can say how the place where i stay have been ignored by the governments and the all the real estate around has developed even the swamps of Kalan agar, some of the slums of band and some of the slums of Khar East.
I tried to own a property in Singapore for future then but unfortunately time did'nt favour me and i was unable to own it and i had to sell it of. And to my surprise when i had purchase the property i was added into whatsapp groups of some slum people i am not sure why or who added me to those slum Maharashtrian whatsapp groups and what were their intentions.
Any ways this is what life is, likely it will all change when the place where i live is redeveloped but i would not give it away for peanuts as the builders or some people are trying to do
Why has gulf based hotelier Raj Shetty of Ramee group so much successful in this area and continues to do so since 2010, shows the influence of gulf in this small khar town region.
Nothing in wrong whoever prospers but it matters is at whose cost???
if a residential area is tuned into a commercial area comes at whose cost.
