The Ambani family’s billion-dollar, party-ready mansion – Antilia: Mukesh and his clan hosted a light show at the 27-storey, 600-staffed home – but do his kids Anant, Isha and Akash still live there?
Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, and his family live in a fittingly opulent 27-story tower on Mumbai’s most exclusive street.
Named the most expensive private residence in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records, the Ambanis’ house apparently requires a staff of 600, has three helipads, and features a cinema that can seat 50.
Dubbed Antilia – the name of a mythical island off the coast of Europe – the interior of the building has been rarely photographed.
With all eyes on the Ambanis’ lavish lives following the pre-wedding celebrations of Mukesh’s youngest son Anant Ambani, and his fiancée Radhika Merchant, we compiled everything we know about Antilia, the Ambani family home.
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Isha and Akash are twins, and they’re the oldest Ambani children. Anant is their younger brother.
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Mukesh is the chairman of the energy, retail and media conglomerate Reliance Industries and is considered India’s richest man. The tower he custom-built sits on Altamount Road, the Billionaires’ Row of Mumbai.
The Ambani family’s Mumbai residence is the most expensive home in the world
The tower is called Antilia, named after a mythical island in the Atlantic Ocean. The 400,000 sq ft structure is officially 27 stories high, although its many double-height ceilings mean it’s closer in height to a traditional 40-story building.
Antilia is on the most exclusive residential road in Mumbai: Altamount Road
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Inside Antilia, there are nine lifts, a 50-seat cinema and a full-service spa. Antilia has been the site of exclusive parties for Mumbai’s wealthiest residents.
Plus the tower has a 168-car garage and is equipped with three helipads.
Antilia opened in February 2010. But in 2011, The New York Times reported Mumbai’s elite were speculating that the Ambanis hadn’t yet moved into the tower. Antilia, one expert said, didn’t align with Hindu architectural philosophy.
There’s luxury art inside Antilia
In 2020, Vogue India catalogued some high-end art inside the Ambani house, including work by the modern Indian artist Francis Newton Souza and Love sculptor Robert Indiana.
Antilia was a site of celebration in early 2024
The Ambani family hosted a light show at Antilia in January in honour of the historic inauguration of Ram Mandir, a gigantic new temple in the ancient city of Ayodhya. Holograms of religious sayings adorned the building. Visitors flocked to see the bedazzled tower and get close to one of India’s most iconic homes.
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Antilia’s opulence has drawn criticism
In 2011, Ratan Tata, another one of India’s richest men, told the Times of India: “It’s sad because this country needs people to allocate some of their enormous wealth to finding ways of mitigating the hardship that people have.”
- Mukesh’s youngest son Anant Ambani and his fiancée Radhika Merchant recently had a pre-wedding bash in Gujarat attended by the likes of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, with a concert by Rihanna
- Asia’s richest man and his clan are also known to throw lavish parties at the family home, Antilia, which the Guinness Book of World Records has dubbed the most expensive private residence globally