NEW DELHI (AP) — In March, Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani threw a three-day prenuptial bash for his son that included a 1,200-person visitor listing, together with former world leaders, tech tycoons and Bollywood’s megastars, and a efficiency by famend singer Rihanna.
It was solely the beginning of their months-long lavish pre-wedding celebrations which have grabbed headlines and set off a social media frenzy.
Billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani and his spouse Nita Ambani organised a mass wedding ceremony for over 50 underprivileged {couples} in Navi Mumbai on Tuesday as a part of pre-wedding celebrations of their youngest son, Anant Ambani.
In Could, the household took friends on a 3-day pre-wedding cruise from Italy to France, which included a DJ set from David Guetta, Katy Perry belting out her hit music “Firework” and a efficiency by Pitbull to cap it off, in response to media studies.
Lastly, the marriage is ready for subsequent week, with Anant Ambani, 29, marrying his longtime girlfriend, Radhika Service provider, in what many have dubbed the marriage of the yr.
Right here’s what we all know:
Who’re the Ambanis?
Chairman of Reliance Industries Restricted Mukesh Ambani, proper, alongside along with his spouse Nita Ambani, greets underprivileged {couples} throughout a mass wedding ceremony organized by them because the a part of pre-wedding celebrations of their youngest son, Anant Ambani in Navi Mumbai, India. (AP Picture/Rafiq Maqbool)
The daddy of the groom is Mukesh Ambani, 66, presently the world’s ninth richest man with a internet price of $116 billion, in response to Forbes. He’s additionally the richest particular person in Asia.
His Reliance Industries is an enormous conglomerate, reporting over $100 billion in annual income, with pursuits starting from petrochemicals, and oil and fuel to telecoms and retail.
The Ambani household owns, amongst different property, a 27-story non-public condominium constructing, named Antila, price $1 billion in Mumbai. It has three helipads, a 160-car storage, a personal movie show, a swimming pool, and a health middle.
Ambani’s critics say his firm has flourished primarily due to political connections in the course of the Congress governments within the Nineteen Seventies and 80s and subsequently beneath Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rule after 2014. They are saying “crony capitalism” in India has helped sure companies, corresponding to Ambani’s, thrive.
The household patriarch has began passing the torch to his two sons and daughter. The oldest son, Akash Ambani, is now chairperson of Reliance Jio, their telecoms enterprise; his daughter, Isha, oversees retail, whereas the groom Anant, the youngest, has been inducted into the brand new vitality enterprise.
Who’re the bride and groom?
Anant has a bachelor’s diploma from Brown College, in response to Reliance Industries’ web site, and oversees the conglomerate’s renewable and inexperienced vitality growth.
He additionally runs a 3,000-acre (almost 1,200-hectare) animal rescue middle known as Vantara in Gujarat state’s Jamnagar, the household’s hometown the place friends in March spent days celebrating within the extravagant pre-wedding celebration.
The bride, Radhika Service provider, 29, is the daughter of pharmaceutical tycoon Viren Service provider and is the advertising and marketing director for his firm, Encore Healthcare, in response to Vogue.
She instructed the journal that the 2 had been launched by mutual associates in 2017. “That first assembly simply sparked one thing particular between us, and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than we began courting,” she mentioned.
When’s the marriage and what’s anticipated?
Chairman of Reliance Industries Restricted Mukesh Ambani, third left, poses along with his relations and underprivileged {couples} throughout a mass wedding ceremony organized by him because the a part of pre-wedding celebrations of his youngest son, Anant Ambani, in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. (AP Picture/Rafiq Maqbool)
The primary wedding ceremony ceremony is ready for July 12, adopted by a grand reception on July 14, in response to native media. Celebrations are anticipated to be break up between the Ambani’s Jio World Conference Middle in Mumbai metropolis and their household residence.
The dates had been reportedly chosen based mostly on the couple’s delivery charts, as is typical in Hindu customized, and deemed auspicious. Additionally protecting with custom, the marriage will likely be preceded by days of conventional wedding ceremony occasions and rituals.
On Friday, Indian social media was abuzz with movies from the couple’s sangeet, a ceremony the place the bride and groom’s households carry out dances for the friends. It additionally included performances by Bollywood stars like Alia Bhatt, Ranveer Singh and Salman Khan in addition to Justin Bieber, who flew to Mumbai for the occasion, in response to native media.
The household additionally organized a mass wedding for greater than 50 underprivileged {couples} final week, as a part of the pre-wedding celebrations.
Extravagant events are the Ambanis’ specialty and subsequent week’s occasions are anticipated to attract extra celebrities, billionaires and world leaders.
In March for the pre-wedding bash, the visitor listing included Invoice Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, former leaders of Canada and Qatar in addition to Bollywood’s A-list stars like Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone. Along with Rihanna, Akon and Diljit Dosanjh, a Punjabi singer who shot to worldwide fame when he carried out at Coachella, additionally took the stage.
In 2018, when his daughter married, Ambani made the headlines due to the grand celebrations, with pop sensation Beyoncé performing on the pre-wedding festivities. On the time, former U.S. Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry had been amongst those that rubbed shoulders with Indian celebrities and Bollywood stars within the western Indian metropolis of Udaipur.
