This Sunday ends the three-day celebration for the marriage of Anant Ambani, the youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man with his 117.9 billion dollarsis also ranked as the ninth richest in the world according to the minute-by-minute ranking of Forbes.
Rihanna in two moments of the show she did at the wedding, in India.
Mukesh Ambani is 66 years old, and He inherited an industrial company from his father thriving with a portfolio that included oil, gas and petrochemicals. He turned it into a business empire called Reliance Industries with lucrative interests in retail, telecommunications and even an Indian Premier League cricket team, and added an alliance with Disney to do joint business in Bollywood, Indian Hollywood, and with Black Rock, the fund and investment that with Javier Milei in the presidency has Argentina in its sights.
(L to R) Mukesh Ambani, Nita Ambani, daughter-in-law Radhika Merchant, and Anant Ambani.
Anant Ambani is 28 years old and is the youngest of Mukesh Ambani’s three children. They were added to the holding’s board of directors in August 2023. Anant’s wedding to Rdhika Merchant, daughter of a powerful Indian family dedicated to the health and pharmaceutical business, began with a pre-party in a kind of Lollapalooza-type space where Rihanna did a show for which her company transported a ton of equipment and lighting paraphernalia. This Rihanna show was the gift from Anant’s mother to her daughter-in-law. Hiring a show like this is already a custom in the Ambani family: in 2018 they hired Beyoncé for the hundred million dollar wedding of his only daughter Isha Ambani.
Rihanna’s recital – which was on Friday – was followed yesterday, Saturday jungle fever, a tour of the host family’s animal rescue center, and at night there was a show by famous illusionist David Blaine. In parallel and as a counterpart to the millionaire investment in the wedding, the Ambanis offered a meal for more than fifty thousand people from Jamnagar, the hometown of this family where the three days of festival were celebrated.
The three looks of Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, at the wedding organized by Mukesh Ambani.
As that city in western India lacks five-star hotels, Mukesh Ambani had tents or tents built that have all the necessary amenities for the thousand wedding guests who can even extend their stay to a maximum of ten days. Some arrived from day one, such as, for example, Ivanka Trumpher controversial husband Jared Kushner and one of her daughters; Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. In the Indian media that follow the minute by minute of this wedding, they mention Bill Gates, Bob Iger –CEO of Disney–, and former ministers of Sweden, Canada, along with popular Bollywood actors, as guests at today’s party. Sunday.
Bubble and power. In a caste society As is India, among those at the top of the list are the Ambani family. Unlike the meaning that is intended to be given in this present Argentinathe term caste in India primarily defines the richest.
(De izq.a der.) Jared Kushner, Arabella Rose Kushner, Ivanka Trump, y Mukesh Ambani.
The report Survival of the richest (Survival of the Richest), which was published at the Davos Forum in 2023 highlighted the great disparity in the distribution of wealth in India: more than 40 percent of the wealth created in that country between 2012 and 2021 was in the hands of only one percent of a population of 1,437 billion inhabitants. Of these, according to Forbes, there are about one hundred and nineteen billionaires, and of that number Mukesh Ambani is first on the list, followed at a distance by Gautan Adani, who has sixty-eight thousand dollars.
Mukesh Ambani and his daughter-in-law Radhika Merchant.
As a detail of Ambani’s eccentricity and power, he became known for building a family home in Bombay, a twenty-seven story skyscraper that can withstand an earthquake measuring eight on the Richter scale. The construction of Antilia, as the skyscraper is named, cost more than a billion dollars. With six hundred employees permanent, the building has a garage for 168 cars, a heliport for up to three helicopters, four floors as “green spaces” and amenities for living in a bubble.