Son of Asia’s most wealthy man is married in the biggest wedding of the year.
Celebrations for Anant Ambani getting married to Radhika Merchant were held in the family-owned Ambani Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai as well as at the family home.
MUMBAI, India (AP) — The youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man , married his longtime girlfriend early Saturday in what many dubbed the wedding of the year, attended by global celebrities, business tycoons and politicians, highlighting the billionaire’s staggering wealth and rising clout.
The wedding ceremonies, which included exchange of garlands among the couple as well as going around the sacred flame, began Friday and continued until midnight.
The celebrations of Anant Ambani wedding Radhika Merchant were held on the property of Ambani, which is owned by Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai as well as at the family home. The wedding was the culmination of the culmination of months of wedding festivities that included entertainment by pop stars like Rihanna as well as Justin Bieber.
Premier Secretary Narendra Modi attended a reception held by Ambanis on the evening of Saturday.
The Ambanis held the “blessing ceremony” for guests and relatives to get acquainted with their new couple, and to wish them joyous married life.
Star of reality television Kim Kardashian and professional wrestler and Hollywood actor John Cena were among the guests who attended the extravagant wedding to the daughter of Asia’s wealthiest man Mukesh Ambani on Friday.
India Today television news channel said that the newlyweds walked on Modi’s feet in a gesture of respect and asked Modi’s blessings.
The four-day celebrations started on Friday with a customary Hindu wedding ceremony. It is followed by a lavish reception which will continue throughout the weekend. List of guests includes the former British Premiers Tony Blair and Boris Johnson; John Kerry, the former U.S. special envoy for climate change, Saudi Aramco Chief Executive Officer Amin Henrique. Nasser, and Adele, Lana Del Rey, Drake and David Beckham According to local media. The Ambani family has not confirmed the guests’ names.
News channels on television showed the appearances of famous people like Kim Kardashian, who was dressed in red, as was pro wrestler as well as Hollywood film actor John Cena.
Kardashian Sisters Kim and Khloe were able to ride an rickshaw motorized through the bustling Mumbai streets on Friday prior to joining the wedding celebrations as reported by according to the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
International guests were dressed in traditional Indian clothing from major Indian designer. They wore the embroidered sherwanis, long-sleeved coats that are used by the men of South Asia. Cena dressed in a sky-blue sherwani with white pants. Nick Jonas wore a pink sherwani with white pants.
Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Ranbir Kapoor were among the guests at the wedding, and danced to the popular Hindi film songs. Indian cricketers such as famous names such as Sachin Tendulkar Mahendra Singh Dhoni Jasprit Bumrah Hardik Pandya, and Suryakumar Yadav, were among guests.
Famous people, business tycoons, and politicians were on hand Saturday for a blessing ceremony’ for the newly married couple Anant Ambani as well as Radhika Merchant. (AP video/Rafiq Maqbool)
Police had to impose traffic reroutes in the vicinity of the venue for weddings on Friday and Monday in order to accommodate the crowd of guests that flew in to Mumbai to attend the wedding. torrential rains caused delays in flights and flooding over the last week.
The lavish celebration and the lavish display associated with the wedding has led to many raising questions about the rising inequality in India in a country in which the disparity between the rich and poor is escalating. This event also has sparked frustration among some Mumbai residents who claim they’re struggling to cope with the snarling traffic.
“It can affect our income. I’m not particularly concerned on the day of wedding.” stated Vikram, taxi driver who has just one name.
The groom’s father, Mukesh Ambani, is the ninth richest man in the world, with an estimated total net worth of $116 billion as per Forbes. He is the most wealthy individual in Asia. He is the richest person in Asia. Reliance Industries is a conglomerate that has more than $100 billion of annual revenues, and has interests that span petrochemicals telecoms, oil and gas and retail.
The Ambani family is the owner of among its other assets a family compound with 27 stories located in Mumbai valued at $1 billion. The property is comprised of three helicopter pads, a 160-car garage and a private theater.
The groom of the bride, 29-year-old Anant manages the conglomerate’s green and renewable energy development. Anant also manages the 3,000-acre (about 1,200 hectare) centre for animal welfare located in Gujarat state’s Jamnagar where the family’s home is.
She is the bride. Radhika Merchant (also 29 has the father of pharmaceutical billionaire Viren Merchant, who is the director of marketing for Encore Healthcare, his business. Encore Healthcare, according to Vogue.
Ambani’s critics claim that his business relied on connections to the Congress Party during governments of the 1970s and ’80s and also under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership after 2014.
The family’s wedding celebrations were lavish and glittering right from the beginning.
In March in March, they held a celebration of the prenuptials for Anant which was attended by 1,200 guests who included the former leaders of world politics, technology titans and Bollywood superstars. The event also featured shows of Rihanna, Akon and Diljit Dosanjh who is an iconic Punjabi singer who gained international recognition after his performance at Coachella. It was attended also by billionaires from the tech industry Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates.
It was the beginning of extravagant, long-running wedding-related celebrations that made the headlines and triggered an online frenzied.
In May the family accompanied guests to a three-day cruise from Italy to France and back, which featured Katy Perry singing her hit track “Firework” and a performance by Pitbull According to reports in the media.
The family also planned an large wedding ceremony to more than 50 less fortunate couples on the 2nd of July in celebration of the holiday.
The week before, Justin Bieber performed for thousands of people at a pre-wedding show that featured shows from Bollywood superstars Alia Bhatt Ranveer Singh as well as Salman Khan.
Ambani also made news in 2018 when Beyonce was a guest at the pre-wedding celebrations in honor of his daughter. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry were among the people who rub shoulders with Indian stars along with Bollywood celebrities in the west Indian town of Udaipur.