Mini Mathur: My Goa home will be ready next year

Mini Mathur was in Goa recently for a short break, spending time with close friends and family. The actress is also eagerly waiting for her new home in Siolim to be ready so she can spend more time in the land of sun and sand.

'Could see us spending a longer time in Goa, later in life'Speaking about how she convinced husband Kabir (Khan) that they should invest in a Goa home she says, “During Covid we moved to Goa for two months - family, dog, cook and driver. That’s when they saw what I envisioned. Kabir was opposed to a holiday home but could see us spending a longer time in Goa, later in life. My brother had no plans to move to Goa but fell in love with it while looking for a home for me. Now, my Goa home will be ready next year and I see myself spending more time there once the kids are off to college. I plan to spend time writing and gardening.”



‘I can have an unlimited quantity of poie’ No holiday is complete without gorging on local food. Mini recalls, “I usually stay in North Goa but this time Maria took me to these beautiful eateries in the South. I gorged on crab, pumpkin bharta, mango sasao, chonak and fish curry with rice. I can have an unlimited quantity of poie. We also had fresh nira and toddy.”

‘Goa rains are gorgeous’Mini says the initial plan was to stay just a day but she ended up staying four days. She says, “I had just planned a day of breakfast-lunch-dinner and overnight gossip with Maria (Goretti) who was also in Goa but the rains were so gorgeous, we ended up staying four days. Two days at my brother’s home in Siolim and the other two at Maria’s home in Saligao. I have been a Goa fan for 20 years. Before the world woke up to moving to Goa, I had been looking for a home to grow old in. I would visit every plot of land that was available, look at it from five different directions, see how the sun and trees fall and say ‘maybe this one’ but by the time I came back to it, it would be sold.”

‘I prefer living in Goa over Bali and Thailand’Mini says her favourite thing about Goa is, you can be as secluded as you want but you put one message out and everyone you know reaches there. “You are never short of social life. I prefer living in Goa over Bali and Thailand, I love Goan culture, old homes and walking in the bylanes. I build up stories in my head about families who possibly live there. I beg to differ from people who feel Goa is overcrowded, you need to stay away from tourist hubs. People should respect Goan culture, their pace and not try to bring in city energy into that space. I see people being loud and unmindful of the relaxed pace that people come to Goa for. I don’t want people to change the DNA of Goa. However, I would love for Goa to have an efficient taxi service so we aren’t paying thousands of rupees to go from one spot to the other,” she adds.
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