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Amitabh Bachchan & Ranbir Kapoor Buy Plots in Ayodhya's The Sarayu — Prices, Details & More
Two of Bollywood's biggest names now own land on the banks of the Sarayu. Here is exactly what they bought, what it cost, and why Ayodhya has become India's most talked-about land market.
Key facts at a glance
- Ranbir Kapoor: 2,134 sq ft plot for approximately ₹3.31 crore at The Sarayu, announced May 2026.
- Amitabh Bachchan: multiple parcels in Ayodhya cumulatively reported at close to ₹90 crore, including a 2.67-acre buy for ₹35 crore in March 2026.
- The project: The Sarayu by The House of Abhinandan Lodha — a 75-acre plotted development on the Sarayu riverfront, roughly 15 minutes from the Ram Mandir.
- Hospitality partner: a five-acre pure-vegetarian luxury hotel developed with The Leela.
- RERA: registered with UP-RERA across phases, including UPRERAPRJ397318/10/2024.
Ranbir Kapoor buys a 2,134 sq ft plot for ₹3.31 crore
In May 2026, The House of Abhinandan Lodha confirmed that actor Ranbir Kapoor had acquired a land parcel at The Sarayu, its flagship plotted development in Ayodhya. The transaction covered 2,134 square feet and was valued at roughly ₹3.31 crore — a headline-grabbing number less for its size than for its timing.
Kapoor is set to appear as Lord Ram in Ramayana, one of the most expensive Indian productions ever mounted. Buying land in the city the epic is built around, months before the film reaches audiences, gave the purchase a symbolic weight that no marketing budget could have manufactured.
"I believe Ayodhya has chosen me, and I have just answered this calling. Ayodhya is deep rooted in our history and is a critical part of our cultural fabric. This land at The Sarayu became my gateway to ensuring this becomes a part of my legacy for my family," Kapoor said in a statement issued by the developer.
The actor also credited the developer's fully digital purchase process — a detail worth noting, because ease of transaction has been one of the sharpest differentiators in India's branded-land segment, where paperwork and title risk have historically kept serious money away.
Amitabh Bachchan's Ayodhya portfolio: close to ₹90 crore and counting
If Kapoor's purchase made the news, Amitabh Bachchan's made the market. The veteran actor has been buying in Ayodhya since 2024, and each subsequent deal has been larger than the last — a pattern that reads less like sentiment and more like conviction.
| Period | Approximate size | Reported value |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Plot at The Sarayu (reported between 10,000 and 15,000 sq ft across accounts) | ≈ ₹14.5–15 crore |
| May 2025 | 25,000 sq ft | ≈ ₹40 crore |
| March 2026 | 2.67 acres | ≈ ₹35 crore |
Taken together, the reported figures put Bachchan's Ayodhya exposure at close to ₹90 crore — described by the developer as his third investment in the city and his fourth plotted purchase with the group overall. Note that different publications have reported the earliest deal at slightly different sizes and values, which is why the cumulative figure is best treated as an approximation rather than an audited number.
Developer chairman Abhinandan Lodha has recounted that the first conversation with Bachchan began with a late-night phone call, and that the actor asked about a far larger parcel than expected. Whatever the anecdote's polish, the effect on the market was real: after the first Bachchan deal, Ayodhya stopped being framed as a devotional purchase and started being framed as an asset class.
What is The Sarayu by The House of Abhinandan Lodha?
The Sarayu is a 75-acre plotted land development on the banks of the river Sarayu, off National Highway 27. The developer positions it as India's first seven-star land development — marketing language, certainly, but backed by a specification sheet that is unusual for plotted projects in a tier-3 city.
- Location: approximately 15 minutes from the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir and around 30 minutes from Maharishi Valmiki International Airport.
- Hospitality: a five-acre pure-vegetarian luxury hotel developed in partnership with The Leela — believed to be among the first of its kind in the country.
- Amenities: a large clubhouse plus 40-plus curated lifestyle amenities, including an amphitheatre, meditation and yoga zones, riverfront jogging tracks, a Ramayana-themed children's zone and landscaped celebration greens.
- Plot sizes: typically from 1,250 sq ft upward, with mid-sized configurations around 1,507 sq ft and larger parcels available in select phases.
- Approvals: registered in phases with Uttar Pradesh RERA, including UPRERAPRJ311468 for the first phase and UPRERAPRJ397318/10/2024 for a later one.
The Sarayu price list (indicative)
Publicly listed all-inclusive pricing has hovered around ₹1.89 crore for a 1,250 sq ft plot and roughly ₹2.16–2.29 crore for 1,507 sq ft, with maintenance and corpus charges levied separately. Prices have been revised upward across phases since launch, so any figure should be verified against the current cost sheet before you act on it.
Why Bollywood is betting on Ayodhya real estate
The celebrity purchases are the visible layer. Underneath them sits a genuine demand shift.
Ayodhya's footfall has moved from roughly 5.75 crore visitors annually before the temple's construction to about 23 crore in the first half of 2025 alone, according to government estimates. That is not incremental tourism growth — it is a step change of the sort that usually precedes a permanent repricing of land.
Three forces are compounding it. First, infrastructure: a new international airport, a redeveloped railway station, widened highways and a planned greenfield township have arrived within a compressed timeframe. Second, hospitality supply: national and international hotel brands have committed keys to a city that had almost no organised inventory five years ago. Third, scarcity of clean title — for years, land near Ayodhya's core was fragmented, undocumented and difficult for outside buyers to transact safely. RERA-registered branded plotted developments solved a problem that money alone could not.
For high-net-worth buyers, that combination produces an unusual asset: something that is simultaneously an emotional holding, a legacy asset for the next generation, and a bet on a city whose visitor economy is expanding faster than its land supply.
Should you invest in Ayodhya plots? What to check first
A celebrity name on a project is a marketing signal, not a due-diligence substitute. If the coverage has put Ayodhya on your list, work through the basics before you write a cheque.
- Verify the RERA number yourself on the UP-RERA portal, phase by phase. Different phases of the same project carry different registrations and different completion timelines.
- Confirm the collection account. Payments should go only to the RERA-declared account named in the registration, never to an intermediary.
- Read the all-inclusive claim carefully. Maintenance and corpus contributions are usually charged over and above the headline price, and they recur.
- Plan for a long hold. Plotted land in a young market is illiquid. Resale depth typically follows infrastructure delivery and visible construction, not launch-day sentiment.
- Check construction obligations. Some plotted developments carry timelines or design controls for building on the plot. Know them before you buy.
- Benchmark against circle rates and against unbranded land in adjacent micro-markets, so you know precisely what premium the brand, the amenities and the hotel partnership are costing you.
The bigger picture
Amitabh Bachchan's steadily escalating commitment and Ranbir Kapoor's symbolically timed purchase have done for Ayodhya what a hundred brochures could not: they have made owning land in a spiritual city legible to a mainstream investor audience. Whether the current pricing is justified will be settled over the next five to seven years, as the airport matures, hotel inventory opens and the first residents actually move in.
Until then, the honest framing is this — Ayodhya today is a conviction market. The infrastructure story is real, the visitor numbers are real, and the title risk has genuinely been reduced by regulated, branded supply. The premium being paid for that certainty is also real. Buyers who go in with a long horizon, verified paperwork and clear expectations are likely to be far happier than those following a headline. Current plot configurations, phase-wise RERA registrations and indicative pricing for The Sarayu in Ayodhya are worth reviewing in detail before you shortlist.
All prices, plot sizes and transaction values cited here are based on publicly reported figures and developer statements available at the time of writing, and are indicative only. Figures for individual celebrity purchases have been reported with minor variations across publications. This article is for information purposes and is not investment advice. Verify all RERA registrations, approvals, pricing and payment accounts independently before transacting.
