Ali Fazal reveals he was in shock when he visited Shah Rukh Khan’s Mannat for the first time: ‘You feel very small’

Ali Fazal went on to describe his astonishment the first time he visited Mannat after being invited by Gauri Khan for a screening. He shared, “But I visited Mannat when Gauri (Khan) ma’am invited me to a couple of screenings. I remember the first time I visited Mannat I was in shock. The house is big but the things in that house are also big. Humbleness ki dukaan hai woh. It’s like Gulliver’s Travels, you feel very small in that house. But Shah Rukh is one of the best hosts.”

At the launch event for Gauri Khan’s new coffee table book, My Life in Design, Shah Rukh Khan had discussed their journey of acquiring and renovating Mannat. He shared how they initially couldn’t afford it, but they eventually managed to buy the property.

“We didn’t have too much money, and as soon as we mustered up some money, we said we want to buy this bungalow. And it was way beyond our means. We managed to buy it, which was one thing, and then we had to rebuild it, because it was quite dilapidated. And then we didn’t have money to furnish it. Of course, we called a designer. The lunch that he served us telling us how he’ll design the house was way more than the salary I used to earn in a month,” he said. The actor shared that the designer was clearly unaffordable, and that’s how Mannat became Gauri’s first project as a designer.