National Geographic Traveller India – July 2019

MANOR-OF-FACTLY

BLENHEIM PALACE, OXFORDSHIRE

Remember Kareena Kapoor sashaying in a hot pink skirt

at her college in K3G? Or the driveway where Hrithik

Roshan vrooms in a red Lamborghini and catches her eye?

It’s all here. Blenheim Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage

Site and the birthplace of Winston Churchill, acts as a

backdrop for their college.

LONGLEAT HOUSE, WILTSHIRE

The seat of the Marquess of Bath, the Longleat House and

its grounds were the setting for Mohabbatein’s (2000)

Gurukul. Whether it is Shah Rukh Khan playing the violin in

the gazebo, or Amitabh Bachchan framed at the entrance

while the wind whirls around him, Longleat’s Elizabethan

facade is unforgettable. It was even on the film’s poster!

STOWE SCHOOL, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

Set in the expansive estate of Stowe House, this

independent school was shown as Hrithik Roshan's

alma mater in K3G. In fact, the movie opens with Shah

Rukh Khan's voiceover reinforcing the movie's 'love your

parents' theme while Roshan hits the winning ball in a

game of cricket, played on the school’s lush grounds.

WADDESDON MANOR, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

The Raichand House in K3G, supposedly set in Delhi, is

in fact Waddesdon Manor, built by Baron Ferdinand de

Rothschild in 1880. The movie familiarised the audience

with the manor’s neo-Renaissance architecture by

sneaking in aerial shots of the estate, and of Shah Rukh

Khan and Rani Mukerji jogging along its grounds.

If you are going down the road to chase shoot locations, set forth from London to explore the many

manor houses and palaces around the city that have been home to scenes from Shah Rukh Khan

movies, which may or may not be set in India

OLEGALBINSKY/ISTOCK UNRELEASED/GETTY IMAGES

(BLENHEIM PALACE),

KEITH DOUGLAS/ALAMY/INDIAPICTURE

(STOWE SCHOOL),

SEBASEBO/ISTOCK/GETTY IMAGES

(WADDESDON MANOR)

Mohabbatein

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