Google CEO Pichai's Childhood Home Sold To Tamil Actor

A property where Google CEO Sundar Pichai was born and brought up has been purchased by a Tamil actor and real estate developer C Manikandan.

The property was located at Ashok Nagar in Chennai. "Sundar Pichai has made our country proud and buying the house where he lived will be a proud achievement of my life," a daily quoted Manikandan as saying.

The small-time actor has claimed that Pichai had lived in the house for 20 years. Manikandan has also praised the humility of Pichai's parents which took him by surprise.

"Sundar's mother made a filter coffee herself and his father offered me the documents right at the first meeting," he stated, recalling his visit to the Pichai's house. "I was spellbound by their humility and humble approach," he adds.

His father insisted on not using the Google CEO's name in order to complete the registration and transfer process quickly. "In fact, his father waited for hours at the registration office, paid all necessary taxes before handing over the documents to me," the actor added.

"Sundar's father broke down for a few minutes while handing over the documents since this was his first property," the actor claimed.

Born in Chennai, Pichai left the city in 1989 to study Metallurgical Engineering at IIT Kharagpur.

During his last visit to Chennai in December, the Google CEO distributed money and home appliances to security guards. "He also took selfies with his family members on the balcony," the neighbour told the daily.

The real estate developer now plans to construct a villa which is expected to be completed in 18 months.