Floodwaters enter Amitabh Bachchan home

MUMBAI: Torrential rains battered India’s financial capital on Monday, flooding roads, disrupting flights and forcing school closures, while Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan’s Juhu residence Prateeksha was among the many homes inundated.

Videos circulating on social media showed knee-deep water inside and outside the actor’s iconic bungalow, with a car stranded in the flooded driveway as security guards dispersed onlookers. “Money or fame, Mumbai rains spare no one,” a voice is heard saying in one clip.

Prateeksha, gifted to Bachchan and his wife Jaya by filmmaker Ramesh Sippy after the success of Sholay in 1976 and later purchased by the actor, holds deep sentimental value for the family. Both of his children, Shweta and Abhishek, were born there.

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Reuters reported that Mumbai recorded over 140 millimetres of rain from Monday morning, leaving several major roads inundated and cars stranded. Train services, air traffic and road transport were severely hit, with at least nine incoming flights aborting landings.

The weather department has issued a red alert for Mumbai and neighbouring districts including Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Palghar, warning of more heavy rainfall until Aug 21.

Meanwhile, three people were injured late Sunday when the staircase of a two-storey building collapsed in the city’s south. Torrential rains have also killed dozens and inundated villages in India’s Himalayan belt over the past two weeks.