Ambani's $600 Million Wedding Is Just Business as Usual
A five-month-long display of wealth and power marks the Indian tycoon as a media mogul and sets the stage for a public float of his digital empire.
A calculated risk.
Photographer: Raju Shinde/Hindustan Times/Getty Images
Mukesh Ambani once revealed that he watches as many as three Bollywood movies a week in his home theater. “You need some amount of escapism in life,” the Indian tycoon told the New York Times in 2008. “Those two or three hours give you relief.”
Sixteen years later, the oligarch is more than just a consumer of make-believe. He is now a purveyor of mass entertainment, a media mogul preparing for the stock-market listing of a digital empire worth as much as $112 billion, according to Jefferies. And what better way to start the countdown than by inviting the world’s rich, glamorous and powerful to a five-month-long wedding extravaganza?