Sahar (postal code: 400099) is an area in the Andheri suburb of North Mumbai which is the site of the Sahar International Airport which opened here in 1981, which lead to subsequent development in the area. including the opening of the first hotel of The Leela Group

Hotel Leela Venture

The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts is an Indian luxury hospitality group founded in 1986 by Captain C. P. Krishnan Nair, who named it after his wife. Currently The Leela - as it is commonly referred to, is a group of seven luxury palaces and hotels, located in Mumbai, Goa, Bangalore, Trivandrum,...

 in 1988. Its nearby areas are Vile Parle

Vile Parle

Vile Parle , also known as "Parla", is a suburb of Mumbai. Vile Parle is also the name of the railway station in this suburb, on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Western Railway railway line. Vile Parle has a significantly strong base of Marathi and Gujarati population. The name "Vile Parle" has...

 and Santacruz.

One of the oldest settlements of East Indians, in the Andheri region of Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

, Sahar was also a former station on the Salsette-Trombay Railway

Salsette-Trombay Railway

The Salsette Trombay Railway also known as the Central Salsette Tramway was a rail service that linked Andheri in the north with the village of Trombay in the east, on the island of Salsette in the city of Mumbai in India. The line was opened in 1928 by the Great Indian Peninsular Railway under...

. It was dismantled after the rail line closed down in 1934.

External links

• Irfca.org
• Mumbai Mirror, 25 October 2005, Manoj R Nair