Billionaires, cricketers, film stars invited to Mukesh Ambani’s scion’s pre-wedding festivities
New Delhi, February 25
India’s top billionaires, including Gautam Adani and Sunil Bharti Mittal, mega stars from film industry such as Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan and cricketing icons from Sachin Tendulkar to MS Dhoni are among those invited for the pre-wedding celebrations of Mukesh Ambani’s younger son Anant early next month.
Ahead of the wedding ceremony in July, guests from around the world have been invited to the three-day pre-wedding festivities beginning March 1, at Gujarat’s Jamnagar, which houses Ambani’s mega oil refineries.
Anant Ambani, the youngest of the three children Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani have, is set to marry Radhika Merchant – the younger daughter of Viren Merchant, CEO of Encore Healthcare, and entrepreneur Shaila Merchant.
With Jamnagar not having five-star hotels, ultra-luxury tents housing best of facilities, including tiled bathrooms, are being erected for the guests.
The guest list includes international business leaders like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Adnoc CEO Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, and EL Rothschild chair Lynn Forester de Rothschild, sources said.
Indian business magnates invited include Tata Sons chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran , Aditya Birla Group Chairperson Kumar Mangalam Birla, Godrej family, Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani, RPSG Group head Sanjiv Goenka, Wipro’s Rishad Premji, banker Uday Kotak, Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla, Airtel chairman Sunil Mittal, Hero’s Pawan Munjal, Roshni Nadar of HCL, Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath, entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala and Sun Pharma’s Dilip Sanghi.
Top cricketers, including Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya and Ishan Kishan, too, are on the invitee list.
Bollywood would be represented by Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Amir Khan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna, Ajay Devgn and Kajol, Saif Ali Khan and family, Chunky Pandey, Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, and Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif.
Madhuri Dikshit and Sriram Nene, Aditya and Rani Chopra, Karan Johar, Boney Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, Sidharth Malhotra, Shraddha Kapoor, Karisma Kapoor, Rajnikanth and family are on the invitee list.
The event will be themed, according to an event guide sent to the invitees. Chartered flights have been arranged to ferry guests from Delhi and Mumbai to Jamnagar and back. Guests are expected to arrive by mid-day on March 1.
Hollywood pop-icon Rihanna, along with Diljit Dosanjh and others, would enthral the guests with their performances.
