A day in the life of Niranjan Hiranandani: work and site-seeing

Cinematographer: Shaina Anand

Duration: 00:37:19; Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1; Hue: 58.793; Saturation: 0.030; Lightness: 0.300; Volume: 0.052; Cuts per Minute: 8.172; Words per Minute: 4.849

Niranjan Hiranandani, MD of Hiranadani construction at work in his Headquarters in Powai. Its almost noon. He has a few phone conversations. We take a ride in their van to see some 'show flats' , the LH Hiranandani hospital and up the Powai hill. We come back to the HQ. Catch him having a late lunch.

In conversation with Niranjan Hiranandani , who explains his work schedule
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Niranjan Hiranandani on a phone call. He also handles another phone at the same time which he uses to dial another number.
(Hindi)
N – hello Surendra Bhai (brother) tell me. ...yes, yes....tell me....yes sir....ah!.........
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N – that is right...correct...yes, sir. Yes, sir.....yes tell me.
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Niranjan Hiranandani on a phone call.
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N – if you give me an idea then according to that I can give you a time slot..yes, sir. Yes, sir....
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Niranjan Hiranandani on a phone call. Camera zooms in .
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N – yes, sir......correct...
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Niranjan Hiranandani on a phone call. Close up. .
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Niranjan Hiranandani on a phone call. Close up of his Blackberry phone as he fixes an appointment and sets it on the phone.
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N - you tell me....do you want it on Saturday? ....yes, in Powai, Olympia building, second floor....yes, sir....
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Niranjan Hiranandani on a phone call. Close up of his Blackberry phone as Niranjan Hiranandani fixes an appointment and sets it on his Blackberry phone.
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Niranjan Hiranandani on a phone call. Close up of his Blackberry phone as Niranjan Hiranandani fixes an appointment and sets it on his Blackberry phone. He struggles with the phone.
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N – yes, could you please provide me you mobile number?
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Niranjan Hiranandani on a phone call. Close up of his Blackberry phone as Niranjan Hiranandani fixes an appointment and sets it on his Blackberry phone.
(Gujarati)
N – tell me, so.....tell me.....if there is any change, phone my office, otherwise we will meet. Yes sir.
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N - ?....?
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Niranjan Hiranandani is busy setting an appointment on his Blackberry phone. Camera pans to a bunch of documents labeled 'Urgent'
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Niranjan Hiranandani is busy on a phone call
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N – ........the Managing director of HCC.......Chairman, Managing Director, who had come....Vice Chairman, last meeting...what is his name....not HDFC, HCC...Hindustan Construction....Ajit Kolapchar.
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N – ..........actually this thought had never occurred to me..............
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Niranjan Hiranandani finishes his phone call
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N – how about next week?....sure....next week, call me on a Monday or a Tuesday, as for a few days I m giving very few appointments....OK?...so Next week call me any time on Monday or Tuesday.....
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At a construction site. View of a building under construction. Camera tracks in and zooms in on a dog. Bags of cement are seen stacked on top of each other.
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At a construction site. Camera person led by a man, walks through a building under construction.
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At a construction site. Camera person enters an elevator of the building under construction. A security guards walkie talkie beeps. Zoom in on the walkie talkie.
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At a construction site, inside the elevator of the building under construction. A security guard holds a walkie talkie.
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At a construction site, inside the elevator of the building under construction. Elevator reaches the sixth floor where everyone gets off. A man leads the camera person into an unfurnished. show-flat.
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View of Powai and the Hiranandani Gardens from an unfurnished show-flat of a building under construction.
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Leased Land in Mumbai (like the Powai project of Mr. Hiranandani):

In Mumbai, hundreds of acres of land have been leased out by the Authorities across the city and suburbs to a hand-full of influential individuals and families. However, the requests by the poor for handing over small tracts of land on lease basis have been rejected since many years. The influential people have been granted fresh leases and their earlier lease agreements renewed at rates which are far below the existing market rates. This information has been obtained by RTI activist Shri Shailesh Gandhi.

The total land given by the Suburban Collector on lease is 9,847,372.84 sq.m., and this fetches a lease rent of Rs.4.04 crores. This works out to a rental of Rs.4.11 per sq.m., per year. In the last three years, Mumbai suburban authorities have charged lease rent at the average of Rs.106/- per sq.m., instead of Rs.1700/-, which is the rate as per the existing market rates. The approximate loss in revenue is Rs.48 crores!

Even more bizarre is the case of lands whose lease has expired, but the land holders continue to hold the land which is supposed to revert to the Authorities. After the expiry of the lease agreement their status is no more than that of an encroacher. But the Authorities in this case, dare not evict the encroachers! Below is a list of some such encroachers whose lease agreements have expired but they still illegally continue to occupy the land.
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A make shift camps for construction workers is seen in the foreground. Rows of box-like temporary houses for construction workers are built of asbestos and other material. A place along the Hiranandani estate, this camp resembles a concentration camp. Camera zooms in on Dr. L.H. Hiranandani hospital.
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Camera zooms out of Dr. L.H. Hiranandani hospital. A make shift camps for construction workers is seen in the foreground. Rows of box-like temporary houses for construction workers are built of asbestos and other material. A place along the Hiranandani estate, this camp resembles a concentration camp.
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Camera pans along the view of the Hiranandani estate, which pockets of areas under construction, with small makeshift camps for construction workers, built along the construction sites, among debris and rubble.
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Camera zooms out of Dr. L.H. Hiranandani hospital. Other areas under construction, with small makeshift camps for construction workers, built along the construction sites, among debris and rubble.
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View of Hiranandani Gradens, in the Powai area of Mumbai
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View of Hiranandani Gardens. Camera slowly pans and zooms into the rock garden and the pagoda, with a water body, of the Nirvana Park, Powai. The Powai Lake of Mumbai can be seen in the extreme BG.
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View of the Nirvana Park, Powai. In the extreme BG is the Powai Lake of Mumbai
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Interior of an apartment. Slowly the lights come on. One gets the see the lavishly furbished interiors of the apartment
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Interior of an apartment. As the lights come on. One gets the see the lavishly furbished interiors of the apartment
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Interior of another room of the lavishly furbished interiors of the apartment. A man is seen relaxing.
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The 4000 square feet show flat at Hiranandani gardens Powai. Land was given at Rs. 40 an acre for low-cost housing. We are not making a case here for 180 square feet flats, 20 of which would have been made in place of this one flat.

Interior shot of a kitchen area of a lavishly furbished apartment. A lady enter the kitchen as the camera pans across the kitchen.
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A security guard blows his whistle as an attempt to call up the elevator of the building which is under construction., with the help of its shrill sound.
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A security guard waits for the elevator to arrive after having tried to call it by blowing his whistle.
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Traveling in a mini-bus.
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View an operating room. The live transmission is, with the help of CCTV security cameras, of an operation done with a robotic arm.
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View of a building under construction, camera zooms out. Camera pans across the construction site.
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View of the Mumbai city from a mountain top. Camera zooms in on the cityscape of the Eastern urban development.. Mumbai's Sahar Airport can be seen with its runway at a distance.
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View of the Mumbai city from a mountain top Camera zooms out of the cityscape of the eastern urban development.
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View of the Hiranandani Gardens from a mountain top. Camera captures the cityscape.
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Traveling in a mini-bus on a mountain top. The camera captures the passing view of the Mumbai cityscape, as the bus slowly moves.
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Traveling in a mini-bus on a mountain top. The camera tries to capture the passing view of the Mumbai cityscape, as the bus slowly moves.
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Traveling in a mini-bus . The mini-bus arrives at the go-carting area of the Hiranandani estate.
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Traveling in a mini-bus . The mini-bus arrives at the go-carting area of the Hiranandani estate. The tracks for the go-carting races can be seen.
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Traveling in a mini-bus . The mini-bus exits the go-carting area of the Hiranandani estate. The tracks for the go-carting races can be seen.
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Traveling in a mini-bus . The mini-bus moves towards the Hiranandani Gardens.
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Traveling in a mini-bus . The mini-bus moves along the Hiranandani Gardens.
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Traveling in a mini-bus . The mini-bus enters the Hiranandani Gardens.
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N.Hiranandani in a casual conversation with a colleague, while he is having his lunch. He explains the colleague the theme of the event.
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In a casual conversation with N.Hiranandani, while he is having his lunch.
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Camera zooms out. In a casual conversation with N.Hiranandani, while he is having his lunch
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In a casual conversation with N.Hiranandani, while he is having his lunch
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In a casual conversation with N.Hiranandani, while he is having his lunch
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Shaina – I m taking a shot....come....(Marathi)
N – you will come in a movie! (Gujarati)
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In a casual conversation with N.Hiranandani, while he is having his lunch
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Shot of a photo-frame with a photograph of a brightly lit Hiranandani estate at night. Camera zooms in and zooms out
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View of N. Hiranandani's cabin through a glass door. N. Hiranandani is busy talking to his employees.
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Inside N. Hiranandani's cabin. He is busy talking about his employees to his colleague.
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Inside N. Hiranandani's cabin. An employee is talking to N. Hiranandani's colleague .
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Inside N. Hiranandani's cabin. An employee hands him a few papers to check and sign.
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Inside N. Hiranandani's cabin. He is signing a few papers. He leaves the cabin to go meet an employee.
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N. Hiranandani discussing work with employees.
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N. Hiranandani enters his cabin and the door closes behind him.
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In the telephone operator and surveillance control room at the basement of the Hiranandani office. A TV set transmitting images sent by a CCTV camera.
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In the telephone operator and surveillance control room at the basement of the Hiranandani office. Close up of TV set transmitting images sent by a CCTV camera.
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In the telephone operator and surveillance control room at the basement of the Hiranandani office. A TV set transmitting images sent by a CCTV camera.
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