Mumbai is the twelfth wealthiest city in the world.
Wealthier than Toronto
but up to half the population lives in slums
and a lot of the neighborhoods look like this.
So today
I'm gonna show you what the other side of the tracks looks like.
What is the rich side of Mumbai?
[motorbike noise]
[traffic and horns honking]
♪ Indian electronic ♪
This neighborhood is called Malabar Hill.
Here we are, hanging gardens.
[car horn honks]
Quite nice, greenest space I've seen in the city.
[boys chattering]
PETER: Welcome to India. [boys chattering]
No, no postcards please.
No postcards. What, you like the hat?
It's hot, bro.
I'm dying up here.
-What do you got here? -Hasta la vista, baby.
-Oh, you again? -Yes, I am ready.
[speaking Indian]
-200 rupees. -No
I don't want it for free.
-Hasta la vista, baby. -Hasta la vista, baby.
-Adios. -Adios Amigos.
Ne hao.
Ne hao ma.
Xie xie.
So here we have Marine Drive.
That's how I got here.
It's this big bay here and
there's a lot of art deco architecture
and it's where a lot of Mumbaikers hang out.
So it's a little tough here. See across the street to the left?
There's a couple security guys and there's no going in there.
Seems like all of these places...
All of these places have very tight security.
-Namaste. -Namaste.
Yes sir?
Huh?
I shoot the streets.
It's main street though.
It's normal street, not somebody's house.
They told me to come here to take pictures, most beautiful.
-Beautiful. -Your country?
-USA. -USA, good, welcome.
Thank you, okay.
[chuckles]
Bye-bye.
There's a lot of curious looks
but the second you smile or say, "Namaste."
most people come out with a nice smile, say, "Namaste."
They always ask, "Where are you from?"
They have a few standard questions, "Where are you from?"
"Are you married?" "You come here alone?"
"Where is your hotel?"
That's a weird one, right?
To tell a stranger where your hotel is.
It's not a threatening thing here I don't think
but it's not something I wouldn't normally do.
Is be like, "Hey, here's where I'm staying."
This is the twelfth city in the world for accumulated wealth.
So your taking, let's just say 22 million people
and compiling that wealth
Boom, you have the twelfth...
Um, from USA.
USA.
No, not Asia, USA, America.
Where is the center, Malibar Hills?
It's nice?
[speaking Indian]
Okay, thank you.
You'll never get the same set of directions in India.
I don't know what it is
but if you ask someone, one person will tell you to go that way.
The next person will tell you to go the other way
and the distances I've noticed...
Some guy was like, "The restaurant is 20 minutes away."
and it was literally like where this red sign is.
That's it.
It's a much different part of the world and I love it.
I love
that you have to adapt.
You have to adapt to India or you'd just be miserable.
You'd hate your life here.
But if I'm gonna pick one place in the world
India is that place where...
you just feel more alive as a human being than anywhere else.
[car horn honking] Again, you see this.
We're just walking along and out of the blue, it's this.
This situation.
People living on the streets.
You're heartbroken every day
because you see such rife poverty.
You see people just getting through life barely.
Without limbs.
Deformed faces, whatever it might be.
Like, there's a lot of just getting by here
and you have to block it out eventually.
I think it's like a doctor...
A doctor who's been a doctor for years and he can't take every...
You know...
Bad situation to heart
because he would just be destroyed as a person
and I think
that's sort of how it happens here.
I don't know, I haven't lived here
but I think people become somewhat immune to it.
It becomes normalized.
You have to ignore it after a while
or you'll just take it all in and it becomes too heavy.
This is cool, this old colonial looking building here.
Looks like it's getting a bit nicer, some orange, some fresh paint.
That's always a good sign
when people have money to buy flowers.
It's usually a nicer place.
But I'm not seeing the Jaguars, the nice Benzes rolling by.
So I don't think I'm in the right neighborhood yet.
[cars honking]
Here we go.
Jivan Villa.
Here's the Chief Justice House.
I'm not criticizing the neighborhood at all.
What I'm trying to understand is everyone online said
this is the most expensive real estate in the city.
Mulibar Hill.
I'm not seeing it.
I'm not getting it at all and I'm walking.
I've been walking for the last two and a half hours.
[women chattering]
This is interesting.
Some Hindu ceremonial place.
What's very respectable about India
is they've very much retained their culture here.
It's a family-orientated place.
It's an ancient culture with food, religion, music
and
sure, westernization has creeped in
but it still feels very much India
and I respect those cultures.
Some places lose their identity in the rapid transformation
to becoming western
and then they lose what's special about them
but India's a place that...
Look, it's not for everyone.
I suggest everyone goes to India at one point in their life.
Do two things in a life, work in a restaurant
as a waiter or waitress when you're young
and go to India.
That will tell you more about humanity, those two things
than pretty much anything else.
Restaurants because you're dealing with people's emotions.
You're dealing with food.
You're dealing with all different personality types
and you have to adjust.
If you want to be good at what you're doing you have to adjust and read the situations.
In India, you have to let go of control completely
and you also
have to not expect anything.
I expected some super-posh neighborhood
with a bunch of Jaguars and Mercedes driving around.
I haven't seen it. I know that's here.
Maybe it's not here, I don't know.
I mean, that is super expensive real estates, all these tall towers
but then at the bottom
It's India, and India always pokes through.
You know what happened yesterday, it was a hectic day
in the slums
and I was beat.
I mean this stuff is draining
and
my body took on this weird relaxed state.
I just went into this very relaxed state
and the horns were loud, the poverty in your face
and all this chaos.
And the body just sort of
copes with it I think by doing the opposite
not taking in the anxiety but just
doing the opposite and going into this very melodic, calm place.
We got a little guy here. What's up, buddy?
-Hi. -Namaste.
You got a kite?
-Yes. -Cool.
England, no.
You live here, buddy?
-Yes. -Okay.
That's your place?
Nice chocolate selection.
Modern chocolates. Modern chocolate, yeah, Cadbury.
Some very cool art deco style.
Love this building.
Pot hole windows up there.
Little bit like a ship.
This way or this way?
This nicer?
[horn honking]
Okay guys, we're pulling the plug on this neighborhood
Malibar hill, and going to a place.
I just heard from a guys saying more of the new money
there's more wealth in Bandra West.
So we're gonna go to the world's second most expensive house
and then to Bandra West.
♪ Indian electronic ♪
Come to a much wealthier neighborhood here.
I knew it was here and this is the second most expensive home in the world.
After Buckingham Palace.
Valued at over $1 billion.
The home of Mukesh Ambani.
He's the richest man in India, 400,000 square feet.
He employs 600 people to work there.
Beautiful greenery up the side of the building.
Proper security.
Absolutely stunning.
Okay?
I don't know what that means.
I'm gonna put the camera down.
I go in?
Sir, can I go in?
Can I go in?
To see the home.
Appointment, no.
I'm a tourist.
Beautiful, man.
[chuckles]
Tell Mukesh Ambani Peter is here for him.
Thank you.
Wow, this is the guy's home.
Can you believe that?
[chuckles] He actually lives there.
Security was mixed.
Guy was shaking his head "No."
and then they warmed up.
Unbelievable, I'll try to get around the other side.
We got this building here, I don't think that's a guy's home.
I think that's a proper office building.
Curious what the square footage is.
How much things go for here.
Do you have to be a multi-millionaire to afford something like that or not.
I think you do.
So back there, we got the Indian head nod.
Which is that... You have to be born here to be able to do it.
It can mean yes, it can mean no, it can mean maybe.
[car horn honking]
[traffic sounds]
Crazy, just right around the corner from that home
skyscraper, whatever you want to call it is this environment.
I can't put the camera in there but people just sleeping under the highway
little rats running around.
So extreme.
♪ Indian music ♪
-What's up, guys? -BOY: [excited] What's up, guys?
You're fired up.
-You're excited. -Yeah.
So this is it, Bandra West.
Quite a long way from South Mumbai.
You guys saw it, some very nice buildings along the water.
A big bridge
and first impressions of this part of the city is it's more livable.
Like there are a lot of nice tree-lined streets.
A lot of cafes, a lot of shops.
Seems younger here I would say.
Some nice places on the beach.
Looks like it's... You guys kissing?
[speaking Indian]
Bollywood style.
[helicopter flying overhead]
It's chaos, it's chaos, they're fired up.
Need some water.
Okay.
Looks like the cool young place to hang out.
[boys chattering]
What's up?
No, I'm not Johnny Sins, c'mon.
[all laughing]
-I met Johnny Sins. -Jesus.
How do you know who Johnny Sins is?
Thank you.
This is Pali Hill Road.
Lot of little businesses, little restaurants.
Tattoos, piercings.
Even nachos, we have a Mexican scene going on over here.
I was told this goes off at night.
A lot of young people come out.
This is one of the pumping nightlife spots of the city.
How long has this cookie shop been here for?
How many years?
This is really nice.
Cafe scene there, nice tree-lined streets.
A lot of cool residences I'm sure behind these gates.
It's got more of a relaxed feel to it.
[loud bang]
F*ck!
[loud bang in slow motion]
That's a coconut falling.
That would... [chuckles]
That would kill somebody.
There's no real one concentrated neighborhood
where everything is nice and everyone is in amazing cars.
Okay, it's such a massive city.
It's spread out
and a lot of the wealth, like many parts of the world
is back behind walls
that are inaccessible.
Starting to get quite cool in here.
There's new apartment buildings.
Looks like a new one up there.
Namaste.
-Pali Hill? -Pali Hill.
Local confirmation.
It is Pali Hill for sure.
[man sweeping]
This is when you know you're in the wealthier neighborhood.
When there's dog walkers.
[car horn honking]
Look at this, relatively clean.
Very clean for India
and it's no joke what's going on here.
This place is on fire.
Timeless life.
-Namaste, timeless life. -Namaste, yeah.
This is the end of the tour of the wealthy neighborhoods in Mumbai.
Malibar Hill, where we were this morning.
Which everyone said was the nicest neighborhood.
I'm gonna say this place is much nicer, Pali Hill.
It's cleaner, there's more vegetation, the buildings are nicer.
With that said
as an outsider it's really hard to know where to go
and all the really nice stuff is blocked-off
and there's no access to it.
So anyways, hope I gave you a good little teaser
of the nice neighborhoods here that contrast heavily
with the other video I did about Dharavi.
One of the world's biggest slums.
Which was an amazing experience.
It was a very cool experience I had there.
So if you're interested, check that one out
and that sums up Mumbai for you.
It's the land of extremes.
Until next video...
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