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In her latest vlog, Farah Khan took her fans to her old house where she grew up with her brother Sajid Khan and her parents—Kamran Khan and Menaka Irani. In the vlog, Farah said that her mother sold the house after her parents hit a rough patch financially, following her father’s film bombing at the box office, which forced them to sell the house.
During the vlog, Farah compared her old house to the luxurious home where she now lives with her family. She said, “Aapne mera naya ghar toh dekha hoga, har vlog main aata hai, sab bolte hain 3 floor hai, bada ghar hai, swimming pool hai. Lekin yeh humara puraana ghar hai, Nehru Nagar society. I’ll show you kitne chote ghar main hum rehte the. Ab mereko pata nahi hai ki humare ghar main kaun rehta hai kyunki tab paise nahi the toh mumma ne bech diya tha ghar (You must have seen my new house in every vlog, people often say it’s three floors, big, and has a swimming pool. But this is our old house, Nehru Nagar Society. I’ll show you how small the house was where we used to live. I don’t know who lives here now, because when we didn’t have money, Mum had to sell the house).”
Farah took the viewers inside the house and showed the humble accommodation. She also recalled her memories of living there. She said, “Yeh tha humara hall, yahan sofa bhi nahi tha aur yahan gadde bichhake zameen par sote the hum. Kitna chota kitchen tha and we used to talk to the neighbours through the window because at that time there was no phone in our house (This was our hall. We didn’t even have a sofa; we spread mattresses on the floor and slept here. The kitchen was so small, and we used to talk to the neighbours through the window because at that time we didn’t even have a phone in our house).”
Farah was accompanied by her cook, Dilip, who looked at the size of the house’s bedroom and said, “Itne se bedroom main kaise rehte the aap log? (How did you all live in such a tiny bedroom?).” Farah replied, “Rehna padta tha tabhi. Ittu sa bedroom tha, 4–5 log rehte the kyunki paise nahi the (We had no choice. It was such a small room, but 4–5 people lived here because we had no money).”
Dilip added, “Ab toh aapna jhaad ka hi bada room hai (Now even your storeroom is bigger than this!)” To which Farah responded, “Mehnat karoge toh chote se bada ho jaayega ghar (If you work hard, a small house can turn into a big one).” Dilip thanked Farah for also helping him build his house. He said, “Mera bhi toh bada kar diya aapna (You’ve also made my house bigger).”
Farah Khan had a tough childhood. She and her family faced financial constraints when her father, filmmaker Kamran Khan, went into huge debt after his film flopped at the box office. “The film released on Friday and by Sunday we were below poverty line. It was pretty bad and I was six years old at the time,” she had said in an old interview with Karan Thapar on ITV India.
Farah shared how her parents sold everything in the house to pay off their debts, including their cars, furniture, and even her mother’s jewellery. They even went to the extent of renting out the drawing room to make ends meet during those tough times. She added, “The cars, my mom’s jewellery, the gramophone—everything. Finally, we were left with an empty house, two sofas, and a fan. We even rented out the drawing room for a few hours. People would come, organize a kitty party, play cards in the room, give us some money in return, and leave. That’s how the house was running for a couple of years.”
Kamran eventually became an alcoholic, and Farah’s mother separated from him. They moved out of his house and had to live in their uncle’s home. “My father literally died penniless with just Rs 30 in his pocket,” Farah said in an old interview.
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