Anant Ambani World’s rich in India for tycoon son’s pre-wedding festival Some of the world’s most influential people have arrived in India’s Gujarat state to attend a marriage party thrown by Asia’s richest man. Mark Zuckerberg, Rihanna and Bill Gates are among the guests at thepre-wedding festival hosted by Reliance Industries president Mukesh Ambani for his son. Anant 28, is set to marry Radhika in July.
Bollywood stars including Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan are also at the three- day event in Jamnagar town. Mukesh Ambani, 66, is presently the world’s 10th richest man with a net worth of$ 115bn, according to Forbes. Reliance Industries, founded by his father in 1966, is a massive empire that operates in sectors ranging from refining and retail to fiscal services and telecom.
Anant Ambani is the youthful of his three children, all of whom are on the board of Reliance Industries. The extravagantpre-wedding event is in keeping with the Ambani family’s record of hosting lavish marriage parties. In 2018, pop sensation Beyoncé performed at Mr Ambani’s daughter Isha Ambani’spre-wedding festivals held in Udaipur city.
Former US registers of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry were among the guests at the event. A Bloomberg report at the time cited sources who put the cost of Isha’s marriage at$ 100m- this was denied by a” person close to the family” who said the bill was around$ 15m. The current festivals kicked off before this week with an event where the Ambani family served food to the original people in Jamnagar.
Some 1,200 guests are attending thepre-wedding party, which is being held in a township in Jamnagar near Reliance’s main oil refinery. Reported that the guest list includes Indian billionaires Gautam and Kumar Birla. Disney CEO Bob Iger is also hoped to be at the party, which comes days after his company announced a junction of its India means with that of Reliance.
Zuckerberg, busy Asia trip, reached Jamnagar. Bill Gates, who arrived in India a couple of days agone, had before posted a video of himself having tea made by a original dealer it latterly went viral.
Others guests arriving on Friday include cricketers Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Bravo, and BP CEO Murray Auchincloss. Other guests hoped at the Ambani event include BlackRockco-founder Larry Fink, Alphabet principal executive Sundar Pichai, former Canadian PM Stephen Harper, former Australian PM Kevin Rudd and Ivanka Trump.
” The guest list appears to have further RSVPs from global commercial blockbusters than the marriages of Mr Ambani’s two aged children in 2018 and 2019, underscoring Reliance’s growing juice and task as a conduit to the Indian economy for global tech, media and energy blockbusters,” Bloomberg wrote.
Among the entertainment on offer are performances by Rihanna and trickster David Blaine. Guests are also anticipated to visit a rescue centre in Jamnagar, which is reportedly home to further than 2,000 creatures.
