Asia’s richest man’s son Anant Ambani is set to tie the knot with his longtime girlfriend Radhika Merchant on Friday. With this, the wedding celebrations that have been going on for several months will come to an end.
Around 1,200 people including Bollywood, Silicon Valley tycoons and even former world leaders will attend the wedding ceremony.
Boris Johnson, Tony Blair, Hillary Clinton, Kim and Khloe Kardashian and Mike Tyson are on the Alex Reed list, Bloomberg reports.
Samsung Electronics chief Jay Lee, Saudi oil company Amin Nasser, Lockheed Martin’s Jim Tacklet and FIFA chief Gianni Infantino, besides Asia’s second richest man, Gautam Adani, are also on the list.
According to Bloomberg’s billionaire index, 29-year-old Anant Ambani is the youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, a company among the five hundred companies selected by Fortune magazine. Mukesh Ambani’s net worth is estimated at $113 billion (£89.53 billion).
The Reliance Group has interests in oil refineries and oil marketing, chemicals, organized retail, telecommunications and digital streaming services.
Mukesh Ambani’s wife is Nita. They have three children including twins Isha and Akash and Anant. All children take over father’s businesses.
Anant Ambani’s girlfriend Radhika Merchant, 29, is the daughter of pharmaceutical tycoon Viran Merchant. She serves on the board of her father’s company, Encore Healthcare.
The wedding celebrations, which began regarding four months ago, are culminating in a ceremony that has garnered a lot of attention from both the national and international media.
The wedding celebrations began in March with three days of pre-wedding celebrations in Mukesh Ambani’s hometown of Jamnagar in the western Indian state of Gujarat. At that time, the guests included Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, the King and Queen of Bhutan, Ivanka Trump and many world leaders.
A special glass palace was constructed for these events in which a light show was organized with the help of 5500 drones. Singers Rihanna, Diljit Dosanjh and Akon performed at the event.
In a second pre-wedding event in May, the Ambani family took around 800 guests on a four-day Mediterranean cruise from Italy to France. American band Backstreet Boys, singer Katy Perry and opera star Andrea Bocelli were hired for entertainment.
Although there is a keen media interest in this grand celebration, the Ambani family is being criticized at every turn for the inconvenience caused by the celebrations.
The Indian government temporarily upgraded the Jamnagar airport to facilitate the landing of private jets of Ambani family guests. A sensitive installation of the Indian Air Force was allowed to be used for the wedding ceremony and government money was spent on it. Anger was expressed over this whole situation.
Residents, tourists and local businesses in the Italian regions of Portofino and Genoa expressed anger when the cities were shut down for the cruise party. People living near the bay were unable to sleep because of the loud music.
The end-of-wedding celebrations in Mumbai have disrupted the situation in India’s economic hub. The police have banned the entry of vehicles around the wedding venue in Mumbai’s central business district from July 12 to July 15.
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The Jio World Convention Center, the wedding venue owned by Ambani’s Reliance Group, will be open only for cars going there. The situation has alarmed residents of a city notorious for its heavy traffic. The situation has worsened due to heavy rain in the city.
According to a report in the financial newspaper ‘The Minute’, several offices in the commercial hub Bandra Kurla Complex have instructed employees to work from home till July 15. The complex houses India’s largest stock exchange, market regulator and several international banks.
The latest wedding celebrations started last week. Justin Bieber performed for the couple’s friends and family at the traditional music ceremony.
Bieber performed his 2015 hit ‘Love Yourself’ and 2017 song ‘I’m the One’ at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Center in Mumbai. DJ Khaled accompanied him. Bieber is rumored to have been paid a million dollars for the private event.
The wedding ceremony on Friday is taking place as per traditional Hindu customs. The reception will last for two days.
Rajan Mehra, CEO of air charter company Club One Air, said the Ambani family had hired three of his company’s Falcon 2000 jets for the guests, and the event was expected to be a success, according to the British news agency. More than one hundred private planes will be used for this purpose.
He said that ‘Guests are coming from everywhere and the plane will have to make several flights across the country.’
Manish Malhotra, one of India’s top designers, has been appointed as the wedding designer. Media reports say that he is working with the groom’s mother, Nita Ambani, to execute the family’s vision for the wedding.
He told CNN: ‘From the decorations and food to the attire and atmosphere, from the music ceremony to the wedding day and the grand reception, every event is designed in such a way that the guests are delighted, Enjoy the atmosphere of love and celebration to the fullest.’
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2024-07-13 08:35:08
