Table for two, please: Pool, billiards tables are redefining home luxury

A pool or billiards table is more than a sporting indulgence - it's a stage for connection, where the click of the cue ball is as much about the game as it is about the company you keep

For India’s luxury homeowners, having a pool or billiards table is increasingly a lifestyle accessory that blends sport, style, and social connection.

 

From smoky clubs to slick corporate lounges, the billiards table has always been more than just sport — it’s a stage for strategy. In Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money (1986), Tom Cruise and Paul Newman used the pool hall as a metaphor for business itself: risk, nerve, and the art of reading your rival. Hindi cinema too has leaned on the snooker table — think Amitabh Bachchan in Shaan or Shah Rukh Khan in Don — to