Malabar Hill is a hillock and upmarket residential neighbourhood in South Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Malabar Hill is one of the most exclusive residential areas in Mumbai. It is home to several business tycoons and film personalities. Notable residents include Adi Godrej, Radhakishan Damani, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Cyrus Broacha, Ashish Pandey the Birla family, Shashi Ruia and family, Pallonji Mistry, the Jindal family, the Petit family, the Bhavya Samir Shah family, the Aagam Ashish Sanghvi family, the Bilakhia family, and the Thakkar family. It is one of the most expensive areas in the world regularly featuring in the top 10 world wide localities.
Malabar Hill in the 1850s
Malabar Hill from St. Xavier's, Late 1860s,
Malabar Point, Bombay, 1865.
The Hanging Gardens at Malabar Hill (ca. 1905).
South Mumbai, colloquially SoBo from South Bombay in Indian English, administratively the Mumbai City District, is the city centre and the southernmost precinct of Greater Bombay. It extends from Colaba to Mahim and Sion neighbourhoods, and comprises the city's main business localities, making it the wealthiest urban precinct in India. Property prices in South Mumbai are by far the highest in India and among the highest in the world.
View of Southern Mumbai Skyline (Worli)
Aerial view of Malabar Hill to the left and Girgaon Chowpatty to a little right.
Settlements of South Mumbai
Bombay in 1909