Dilip Kumar’s 1920s Pali Hill bungalow in Mumbai is giving way to a residential building. It was supposed to be on a proposed  list of heritage structures.

Now the bungalow has been covered with tall tin sheets along the property’s boundary. Officials of Bhrihatmumbai  Municipal Corporation  (BMC) H/West Ward office said that a residential building would come up in its place.

Dilip Kumar bought the bungalow on Nargis Dutt Road in the 1950s.  Built in the 1920s, as befitting a stately mansion, the large house has wooden balustrades, projecting verandahs on the upper storey, and wooden ‘chajjas’ above the openings.

“It needed repairs, as it is an old bungalow,” the thespian’s wife Saira Banu commented and added,“it has not yet been decided how it will be developed. It is for him (Dilip Kumar) to decide”.

Now, while the star lives at his wife’s bungalow nearby, his brothers  Aslam and Ehsaan Khan are staying in his bungalow and feign ignorance on any demolition of the mansion.