A day in the life of Niranjan Hiranandani: At work

Cinematographer: Shaina Anand

Duration: 00:40:54; Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1; Hue: 48.017; Saturation: 0.043; Lightness: 0.317; Volume: 0.050; Cuts per Minute: 17.501; Words per Minute: 84.767

Niranjan Hiranandani, MD of Hiranadani construction at work in his Headquarters in Powai. We are driving with Hiranandani to Powai. Nearing Powai, we are out of the BMW and we tail him in our Santro. In office, Hiranandani does a power walk through the entire office, taking stock of a weeks work and meeting his employees. 'Management by walking' he calls it. He then enters his cabin and begins meetings.

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Tailing Niranjan Hiranandani's chauffeur driven BMW car.
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In conversation with Niranjan Hiranandani, in his chauffeur driven car.
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SA: Like.

NH: Within the complex.

SA: Ok. Nice then.
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In conversation with Niranjan Hiranandani, in his chauffeur driven car.
NH: You have a different mode of transport when I'm working around.

SA: And why do you do that.

NH: Because I can carry my people with me, so many of them together. So you don't have to... All the discussions that you want to take, the instructions that you want to give, it's all that.
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In conversation with Niranjan Hiranandani, in his chauffeur driven car. Camera pans left. Shot of a Hiranandani water tanker.
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N - take a right first. Next to the hospital. We will first go ahead and then come back.
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NH: take a right first. Next to the hospital. We will first go ahead and then come back.

(to Shaina) You can just take the hospital outline.

SA: I'll take this... Nice.

NH: I'll send you with the bus if you want to take some cut shots... of the complex.

SA: Ok.
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NH: You'll enjoy that.

SA: Yes very much.

Driver: Can I take it from the front.

NH: No, Take it a little ahead besides the hospital.

SA: Nice.
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In conversation with Niranjan Hiranandani, in his chauffeur driven car. Shot of the Dr. L.H. Hiranandani Hospital.
NH: No I'll send you, so that you can then take out all the shots.

(to the driver) Turn around... from ahead.
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With Niranjan Hiranandani, in his chauffeur driven car. He is busy attending phone conversation.
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NH: (on the phone) Not at all... Ok... I'll Check it up with what you want... Just whom have you been talking to? No, whom has he talked to? Ya, just come back.
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With Niranjan Hiranandani, in his chauffeur driven car. The car is moving along Hiranandani estate.
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SA: And like we did at home, just 4-5 minutes ambience of you at work.

NH: Sure.
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Niranjan Hiranandani gets out of his BMW car and moves towards a day of work.
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Niranjan Hiranandani discussing business matters with one of his employees.
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NH: (?) orders have been given to James to deposit.

Employee: Ok.

NH: So... (inaudible coversation)
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NH: So I'll speak to Vinod if that can be relased.....(inaudible)
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NH: (to shaina) Come.
Tailing Niranjan Hiranandani towards an elevator, with a guard showing the way.
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NH: You're really documenting me.
With Niranjan Hiranandani in an elevator. The elevator carries everyone to the basement office of the businessman
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Following Niranjan Hiranandani into his basement office. The security guards open doors and salute him, while the receptionist stand with respect as he enters.
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SA: As I said, On your tail.

NH: On my tail... (inaudible)
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Niranjan Hiranandani's day of work begins as he moves to meet his employees.
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On April 8, 2008 the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday swooped down on the homes and offices of leading Mumbai realty developers Niranjan Hiranandani and his brother Surendra, and three senior government officials for committing a Rs.1.68-billion fraud on the Employees Provident Fund (EPF). Four PF officers, five companies of the Hiranandani group (the flagship Hiranandani Properties Private Ltd, Hiranandani Private Developers Ltd, Messrs. Roma Builders Pvt Ltd and Messrs. Lake Meadow Hotels & Resorts Private Ltd.) and two directors of the group, Niranjan and Surendra Hiranandani, have been named in an FIR on March 29 for an alleged conspiracy to cheat the government and their employees of Rs 168 crore. The CBI said that they prepared bogus bills of provident fund contributions of the five group companies although the money was not paid to the government as required under the law.

Full article: http://www.parinda.com/news/business/20080408/3778/hiranandani-developers-raided-mumbai-168-crore-fraud

At the Powai office of the company, the CBI also found 23 bottles of foreign liquor which were seized. A case has been filed under the Excise Act with the police.

Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/CBI_raids_Mumbai_builders_offices/articleshow/2936047.cms

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NH: OK. But is this size enough or do you have (?)

Employee: It will run about one borewell and one AC, three fans and three tubelights.
Niranjan Hiranandani discussing, the number of generators,that will be required for one office, with an employee. He then signs a document to grant permission to purchase.
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NH: My reading is that you may make it a little bigger.

Employee: It is just one office. If it is two offices, and if it is in different places then we have to purchase two generators.

NH: So just now you'll buy one.

Employee: Ya.. thank you sir.

NH: Ok.

Niranjan Hiranandani signs a piece of paper and then moves ahead to meet other employees.
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An employee informs Niranajan Hiranandani about a problem regarding share certificates.
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NH: You have never issued?

So tell him that it's not been issued...

Talk to him. But has he talked to you about what the whole thing is?
Niranjan Hiranandani is signing documents as he inquires about a problem and suggests, to an employee, a solution to the problem.
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Employee: He's asking only for change of registered office and change in accounting (?) (?). (?) is gone.

NH: It's already gone.

Employee: He'll give me the names and photographs of the (?) (?).... (inaudible)
Niranjan Hiranandani discusses a problem with an employee while he finishes signing a few documents.
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As Nianjan Hiranandani continues to discuss work with an employee camera track and pans upwards to show a CCTV security camera.
NH: So what you want is... (inaudible)
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Camera track to get a complete view of a CCTV security camera. The camera then pans down to show Niranjan Hiranandani busy in a discussion with an employee.
NH: We'll do it... I'll sign now. get it ready.
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Employee: ...You have to get the documents scanned. Yesterday I have told him, they are not sending anybody. they say that you send somebody. Who's going to go up?
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Camera pans to Niranjan Hiranandani who walks away from the employee after letting him know that he had no time to solve minor problems.
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NH: It has been issued for.... It's actually in Hiranandani (?) Private Limited. I'll give you the documentations. We've issued that cheque, against which we got...

(inaudible)

NH: 27 crores credit we have got in the personal accounts yesterday.

Employee: That we have received.

NH: You have received that....
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Camera follows N. Hiranandani as he finishes a discussion with one employee and moves to meet the other. Employees greet him.
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NH: So out of bank 1 crore will go for that.

Ok

Employee: Good morning Sir.
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N. Hiranandani talks to an employee in the Marathi language and asks him to show some papers. He begins signing a few documents. Camera zooms in the printout of an e-mail. As the camera zooms out the employee opens a blue print of plans of an area.
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(Marathi)
NH: Show me that, please..

It is not only land at Raigad or Chennai that Mr. Niranjan Hiranandani sees as his own - at one time reporting to a DNA reporter (December 27 2007) he claimed that land that was leased to him at 40 paisa per acre for the sole purpose of constructing low-cost affordable houses was, in his own words: "the land under question [230 acres at Powai] was not owned by the state government... It was my own land."

N. Hiranandani and an employee are having a discussion in Marathi language, about a mall to be built be the businessman. They are looking at the blueprint plans of the area where it is to be built.
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(Marathi)
Employee: this is ?C.T.S?

NH: this is of V mall? This is the place of V mall...

Employee: this is...

NH: isn't that right?

Employee: (inaudible)

N. Hiranandani and an employee are having a discussion in Marathi language, about a mall to be built be the businessman. They are looking at the blueprint plans of the area where it is to be built. Camera focusing on the plans.
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(Marathi)
NH: no, no. isn't; this the place of V mall?

Employee: this ...this...

NH: yes, then this is what is shown....

Employee: this...not this...

NH: isn't that right? What what are they saying?

Employee: they are having a problem...

NH: what is the problem? What is the problem in this?

N. Hiranandani and an employee are having a discussion in Marathi language, about a mall to be built be the businessman. They are looking at the blueprint plans of the area where it is to be built. Camera focusing on the plans.
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Employee: they are saying, ' you have reduced our area'

NH: how have we reduced it? Where have we reduced the area? The plans which we had to show, as per CTS, we are documenting it and showing them. As per use, we are merely giving you the possession of it as shown in the possession

Employee: only giving possession...

NH: we are only giving possession not the place itself. We are not giving you the ownership.

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Employee: not the ownership...

NH: isn't it right? The ownership is ours. Of this, have we taken the ownership?
Employee: not yet sir.

NH: we have not taken the this place. We have what we had in the past. Then what problem do they have?

Employee: after we take it here, we only have to do some adjustment and give it to them.

NH: only possession. Instead, we did want ownership of this as well, but we did not take it. That you should have told them....

Employee: (inaudible)

NH: that plan we will discuss later.

N. Hiranandani is signing a few cheques. Camera zooms in.
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N. Hiranandani busy discussing work with employees. Camera zooms in on a printout, attached to a board, of the company's quality policy. He asks the employee to check on an appointment.
NH: you come...he did not call today, surprisingly as. since yesterday...

Employee: no he told me that VP sir will be coming...

NH: will be coming? Did he call?

Employee: (inaudible)

NH: check up. What time he is coming.. at twelve thirty I have another appointment. What time he is coming, according to that I have to....
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N. Hiranandani walks through the corridors of his basement office. He stops to discuss work with an employee. Camera person follows him.
NH: I have not understood actually... (inaudible)

Employee: (inaudible)

NH: Forget the plot area... If the plot area was alright then what would happen?
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Employee: Sir, the plot area... (inaudible)

NH: Suppose we have not loaded the TRD, we'll remove the TDR and use the....

Employee: (inaudible). I just spoke to Jagtap also, and he's saying that we can try for that option. (inaudible)

NH: So you say that we'll remove this TDR and we can use this... because of this change, we are asking for this and you want to remove and use the TDR.

Employee: (inaudible)
N. Hiranandani is discussing work with an employee. Camera person moves to get another angle of the two.
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NH: Why do you have to amend it. We'll say that we don't want to use TDR, we want to use ITAFSI.

Employee: Ya that will do.

NH: But tell me, is it permitable?

Employee: Yes, it is.

NH: Sure

Employee: Yes, sure

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NH: But will it fit now with the (?)?

Employee: Yes

NH: So will you talk to Sharmistha and get that component done?

Employee: yes sir.

NH: Get me the translation, I don't understand it.

Employee: I'll just do that.
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N. Hiranandani further moves ahead and meets another employee they are seen discussing work. Camera person zooms in on them.
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N. Hiranandani is seen busy in a discussion with an employee. Camera zooms in on them.
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N. Hiranandani is seen busy in a discussion with an employee. Camera zooms out.
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this is all wonderful .

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Camrea person follows N. Hiranandani as he goes on his rounds of meeting his employees to discuss business and work.
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Land use in Mumbai is defined and determined by the Development Plan which is drafted by the Town Planning Dept and has a statutory binding. The land use can only be as per the use for which it has been reserved in the Development Plan. Demolitions of slums are carried out by claiming that they are in violation of the reservations determined by the Development Plan. Surprisingly, documents obtained under RTI show that in the last two years, the government of Maharashtra changed / deleted the reservations of 60 plots and handed over most of them to private builders to build high rise complexes. More than that, in the last 15 years, government and municipal authorities have only acquired one-tenth of the total space meant for schools, hospitals, gardens and playgrounds. Only three of the 281 plots marked for public housing, 48 of 925 plots reserved for schools and only one plot of 379 plots reserved for hospitals has been acquired and developed. The rest have been deliberately allowed to be with the private owners for their commercial exploitation as invariably our ministers and officials of the concerned departments are hand in glove with the land owners.

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Shot of a map of the Mumbai – 'Regional Plan. Mumbai Metropolitan Region'. Camera pans across the map.
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Employee: Sir (inaudible)

NH: I don't know...

Employee: (inaudible)

NH: Who put it.

Take it and go.
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Employee: (inaudible)... we had already submitted those documents... (inaudible)
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Employee: (inaudible)

NH: We haven't got all the (?).

Employee: (inaudible)
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Employee: (inaudible)

NH: No, can (?) the land that we are going to procure, but we can't say that we have procured. We have procured half.

Employee: Half.

NH: So we can show that...

Employee: But after that we can't reflect.... (inaudible)

NH: We can show that we have agreement for purchase for the whole land.
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NH: We don't have the sale in our name.

Employee: (inaudible)

(In audible conversation)
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Camera person moves towards N. Hiranandani . He and an employee are busy in a discussion. Camera pans to other employee working on a software to make three dimensional plans, on a computer. Camera pans back towards N. Hiranandani. Close up of him.
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Employee: all the stones here have been picked up. A few are left. It will be done in a day or two. After which one can being work on 1-1.5 meters...

NH: we will see how...

Employee: ?.....?, in the remain 50 acres, filling of the road has begun, ...(inaudible)...there, the work of pipes and drain water has begun...
N. Hiranandani is signing a few documents and papers at his basement office. Employee updates him about the developments of a particular plot of land. They are talking in Marathi.
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N. Hiranandani finishes discussing work with his employees.
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SA: Wow. All this in 10 minutes.

NH: This is management by walking.

SA: Just say that again...
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NH: (Marathi) what is this?

Employee: (inaudible)

NH: (to Shaina) Can you imagine 32 people, otherwise, coming to meet me individually. Finished 32 people in 10 minutes... So becomes much easier for them because they don't have to come to my office, talk to my secretary, take an appointment or time. The entire department, everybody can just go back to their work or... take decision...

SA: So this a daily thing.

NH: Not daily, I would say. 8 times out of 10 days, because the other days I really have to get down to some meeting or the other, in my own office, and people are waiting for me. So I just can't do that.

N. Hiranandani is signing few papers as he continue to talk to the camera person. He explains why it is beneficial to finish work by going to meet the employees directly rather than them taking appointments to come and meet him, and how all this helps in saving time.
SA: Sir you'll say that line that you said, 'this is management'...

NH: This is really management by walking about. You don't have people coming to you to the management directors office. You really go to the people individually and be able to clear 90 percent of their work on their table. So nothing really comes in... And specially because of the bureaucratic system the amount of paper work which is generated, really, in the industry is huge still.
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NH: Though we have electronic media to do it, but since a large amount of it. So to prevent from all of this to coming on my table, you really just walk around and it just hardly takes 10 minutes to finish work of 32-40 people. And they can all get down to their work immediately, and many of them have to do outdoor work in their outside offices.
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N. Hiranandani is signing few papers as he continue to talk to the camera person. He explains why it is beneficial to finish work by going to meet the employees directly rather than them taking appointments to come and meet him, and how all this helps in saving time.
NH: So, it just helps them to finish their work. Otherwise, many of these papers would probably pile up in my office, or in some....

SA: In files..

NH: In files. And really they would need decisions to take of these matters.
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NH: what is this?

Employee: (inaudible)

NH: so is the excavation still on?

Employee: no...

NH: then?

Employee: this is ......(inaudible)...

NH: what bill?

Employee: ...(inaudible)

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After listening to what an employee has to say, N. Hiranandani continues to walk through his office.
Employee: Now they are giving us offer at 11 percent plus.
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NH: I think we have issued these four cheques but this forty nine thousand seven hundred we have have not withdrew.

Employee: So that also we'll.... (inaudible)

NH: Just find out what those amounts are.

Employee: ok
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(inaudible)

NH: Finish it and lets get that document ready.

Employee: This is that bifurcation issue.

NH: I think this may have been paid. If they are not paid then just finish it. Otherwise transfer it to one of our accounts.
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N. Hiranandani is busy in a discussion with an employee.
NH: Pay this to our accounts. If suppose these are already paid...

Employee: ok

NH: This is 2007, 31st march. Subsequently these may have been paid. If they are paid then let it be transfered to any of our personal accounts.

Employee: If not?

NH: If not then we have to pay.

Employee: ok
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Employee:These, Pratap Sharma and others are coming at 11:30...

NH: Ok

Employee: and this...

(inaudible)

Employee: Seems to be incomplete, sir.

NH: Which one?

Employee: This Chikuwadi.
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N. Hiranandani tells an employee to check on some details as he leaves the employee's cabin. Camera pans from him to the employee
NH: Just give me your points.

Employee: Seems to be incomplete, sir.

NH: Doesn't matter. So check it out, give me your points and then let me know. Come up and we'll finish it.

Employee:ok

NH: Nikhil is gone for some other matter.

Employee: Some consumer matter. It will be (?) something. And then he has to go to some city side. That (?). He has to meet (?).

NH: (inaudible)
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Employee: (inaudible)... I was going through them. I'm just taking out a printout and then I'll... (inaudible)

NH: What is so special?

Employee: It is an open type plan with a central courtyard, and he's got classrooms on all the sides, two staircase, two toilets...

NH: And what is wrong with our existing (?).

Employee: Sir, I think this is made a little open, ours is more like a building, floor on a floor.
N. Hiranandani and an employee are looking at the blue print plans of a school. They compare the plans to a Hiranandani school in Powai. Camera focusing on the plans.
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NH: I know, but just now then we had light and ventilation complete, and all that stuff.

Employee: Sir, this school had a lot of problems with light and ventilation because the backside had quarries. We had to give them forced ventilation. So that's how here we wont need to do.

NH: I see.

Employee: What right now I'm doing is I'm just taking out a printout of Powai, sitting with it and let me see (inaudible).

Employee: (inaudible)

NH: Or maybe the overall space on the ground, ground space requirement will come down.

Employee: See here, all the space is ours. So we're not stuck with any space.
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NH: No...

Employee: I'll go through it.

NH: This must go to Sneha according to you.

Employee: NO, I'll go through it. Let me see what it is?

NH: Self watering plots and planters and things like that... (inaudible)

Employee: Let me see what it is. Then I can see what is to be done. And afternoon I have a meeting there, they have called me for the school.

NH: Where?
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Employee: (?)

NH: (inaudible)

Employee: Sir, I just got a mail yesterday, I think 2 o'clock we have a meeting. So talk to Krishna...

NH: Something about the school?

Employee: About the school... And there is an afternoon meeting (?) (?) meeting. So I'll go for that...

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NH: (inaudible)

Employee: Sir, in the afternoon.

NH: For services?

Employee: For services.

NH: (inaudible)

Employee: Sir, because the (?) being provided are really insufficient. We've been telling them from day 1. So now our (?), our wall thickness's, our detailing (inaudible)

NH: (Inaudible)

Employee: Ya, so what I have done is that I've already given (inaudible)
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An employee explains N. Hiranandani a document . Camera tack in.
(inaudible)

NH: So where are you going to give this?

Employee: (inaudible)
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Employee: I'll attach that at the end.

NH: But this is here itself right.

Employee: This is at Churchgate.

(inaudible)

NH: That's all alright. This is alright and so is the Worli one. What about the others?

Employee: (?)

NH: Permission is alright. If you have to give then give it.
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N. Hiranandani talking to an employee. Signs another document. Camera zooms in on rolls of plans staked in a corner. Close up
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NH: That model one is done? Model?

Employee: (?)

NH: (?)

Employee: They have some trust related issues...

NH: who takes so much time? Disproportionate amount of time.
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NH: I don't even know if it's ultimately worth it. We'll have your building up by 2-3 months know.

Employee: (inaudible)

NH: Maybe in a way it would be good, because for the future it may be good.
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NH: otherwise your building will be ready...

Employee: (inaudible)
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Employee: Those Pattian team wanted different heights. That trust thing is becoming slighty difficult to adjudicate. Now we want to make it more simpler.

NH: Why not just raise the trust?

Employee: Exactly, that's the same that.... That's what we are doing.

NH: Simple na
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Employee: (inaudible)

NH: It may not look so good in some places because when the treatment of the... Actually extra height will always be an advantage. I don't think you'll loose that... What's the height? Below the truss.

Employee: (inaudible)

NH: Below the truss, below the bottom of the truss.

Employee: Yes.
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NH: But nowadays they do much more, nowadays they showing many of that... I've seen some of them, they just purposely show.

Employee: But Sir, we should be showing what actually we are going to give them in the building. If we show more then, I think, we might be misinterpreting them... They might feel, you had shown so much height in so flat, and in the actual building you are only giving only 3.1 meter. Again we shouldn't get into such controversies.
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NH: There are two views on that. I'm not clear on which is the correct view.

Employee: Ok.

(inaudible)

NH: This is June

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NH: Different departments in different times. I just walk through. So what happens is that 30-40 people you can really manage without (?) do anything about it. So much simpler because then people don't come to you.
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SA: They sit at their desks and work.

NH: Huh.

SA: Means, they sit (?), where they have to work or leave for their...
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NH: At the end of the day it is all about what you can done from people. It's like in your case where you...(inaudible).... I have to be more careful than many people have to produce. I mean the same thing which I have to do in the colleges, for example, I have to see that 17 colleges, including National College performs. So it's not just...
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N. Hiranandani enters his office area and meets a few people seated at the reception waiting for him. Camera pans
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NH: Ok. I'll just call you in.

Person: I have take an appoinment Surender Bhai.

NH: Very goo that you Have taken an appointment with Surender Bhai. He's a better person to talk to.

Person: We still remember you.

NH: I also remember you. How is that? Nice to see you... Welcome.
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NH: So here we are, back on the desk.

SA: Back on the desk.
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SA: What time is it?

NH: Just now it's 11:30, but I'm usually here by 11... definitely 11.

SA: Ok

NH: So you've finished a lot of...
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NH: to do... What they want signed. I've had more sign off's down than I have sign on the table. So, it's like... And you know you really have to see to that most of the people don't have to wait up for you... Nobody should be really waiting up for you, and fortunately the email, of course, finishes a large amount of your decision making capacity. So really people don't come to you at all.
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NH: Large amount of paper is bureaucratic paper, because the system still requires a large amount of signing process to be done and submit it to various government and semi-government, and local authorities. So there's a problem on that, but it's a part of the game.
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SA: Ya there's almost no paper work.

Employee: How are you feeling?

NH: I'm good. Thank you.

Employee: Sir, these were the layouts as per our discussion the other day, what we have done. This is the second one. this is the first one. Lets say if we want to do an exclusive country club, with bare minimum plots, nothing small, no half acre is nothing, just two acres. So then what happens is that this our total cost of development and evaluation for....
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Employee: ...our basic costing would be. This forest what you had said, this would be the most exclusive ones with this 50 acre pocket of the...

NH: You realise... the new high values.

Employee: No, actually we don't need to market it for a smaller cost. We can just take it high value, give pockets which is technically... nevertheless. But this what it comes down to. Net profit.

NH: You saw the difference?

Employee: Ya, and upon that we have a niche client. We are not gunning for the basic market.

NH: And the number you have to deal with are?

Employee: It's much minimal, and those are people... I mean, that's... See here we are selling 254 (acres), so all the basic tenants would not be more than 150.
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An employee is discussing a few plans and layouts with N. Hiranandani.
Employee: Now this one. This is 549 is net, and there's one more in which you develop it as a golf club, complete golf club. And you have only peripheral plots, which has even more high value. In which we develop the golf course, we develop the entire mountain, not bungalows, we do the plotting, and this is hotel that remains the same, nevertheless, and then also this is our net profit.
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NH: But ultimately there is a huge difference between this and this.

Employee: Ya but over here what we do is it, then this becomes your domain.

NH: The domain, alright, but ultimately you have to understand that maintenance of such a larger golf course with water and all that...

Employee: Then that is over our head, then it comes in our kitty.
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NH: Ya, so that becomes...

Employee: Otherwise we just give it as a time shared thing, and just give it to people who are actually... we give them a percentage also.

NH: I think this is the, (Golden?) looks more attractive.

Employee: This looks more attractive. This we can develop it as sort of an address for people. You develop it as an, thing which people would want to come to. I mean, within the social circle.

NH: Correct.

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"Proposed Township at Villages Adoshi and Chavani, Khalapur, Dist – Raigad"

The ongoing land grab of agricultural land is seeing the involvement not only of Hiranandani but also companies like Reliance (link), with the International Financial Institutions.

Parties like Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena vouch to represent the voice of the sons of the soil. But where are they when farmers and landless labourers are being thrown away from their life and livelihood by this unholy nexus of builders and IFIs? Is it that for Bal Thackeray and Raj Thackeray, the foreign firangs are their brethren - not fellow citizens from UP and Bihar, who migrate to Mumbai exercising their fundamental right, and on the basis of which it claims to be cosmopolitan?
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Employee: You know there, who is your neighbour, kind of thing. That was a different chapter which after your talks I could, kind of, gather.
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NH: So what I'm saying is that exactly lets do exactly that. Lets try to think about this new thing where we have...

Employee: minimal people.

NH: No, but I don't want the golf course concept.

Employee: No. This, right now, we'll keep the 9 hole golf course...

NH: 9 hole golf course which was there earlier also, with the township and the other things. I think this makes more sense to us.
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Employee: Ya, exactly. We are...

NH: Now I don't want any of these figures circulating.

Employee: Fair enough.

NH: Nobody. Only you and I know.

Employee: ok

NH: So, we'll focus on this... No we'll focus on... Sorry this one...
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NH: So, why have we removed this?

Employee: No, what I was thinking is that since we are charging a premium, you give away green spaces a lot. So then what happens like this.... Sir, in any case this is that area which is flat, which does not have a view...

NH: No, but then there's a difference.

Employee: Half, half.

NH: Ya

Employee: Ya, I got it.
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NH: So then what you do is, you make the road, you cut the road like that.

Employee: I didn't understand.

NH: You cut the road something like that, as a concept.

Employee: And you give away...

NH: And what happens is, you give away this part to this, and you shift the road inclined here.
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Employee: And you give the lower guys a part of...

NH: And you give a part of this plot to the lower guys, and you get a still higher value to that.

Employee: Because you're giving more land.

NH: Because you're giving more land.

Employee: Rather than just keeping it with us. You selling the land per say.

NH: You see optimum.

Employee: Right.

NH: Now you'll suddenly find that this may not be the best location.

Employee: Ya, Because then almost each and every corner is a...

NH: Now each and every plot here is a high value plot.

Employee: Each and every one of them, because then we are...
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NH: Now this doesn't have that USP which we talked about.

Employee: Which we thought about. Even this one. This doesn't become only one pocket, there are pockets everywhere which are spread out throughout.

NH: Exactly. I think, now you are coming in the correct...

Employee: Real sense of development.

NH: Development.

Employee: Optimum value development.

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NH: Exactly.

Employee: So I think so, that day when you came you were much easier on, because you had less things on your head, a lot of things came from you as well.

NH: Just focussed on one issue. I think now I'm quite clear...

Employee: Where we are going.

NH: And what will happen, it will reduce your water requirement, it will reduce your other requirements completely, your construction costs will come down...
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