After two lavish, weekend-long pre-wedding celebrations, Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant are set to get married July 12 to 14. Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani in Mumbai. Photo: Getty A toga party.
A masquerade ball. Rihanna’s first full concert in nearly eight years. A bespoke glass palace and a light show involving 5,500 drones.
All those elements and more have been just part of the warm-up for the July 12 to 14 wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant, so it’s only understandable that all eyes are on the couple and what they have planned for the main event. Who are Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant? Groom Anant Ambani, 29, is the son of Indian businessman Mukesh Ambani and Nita Amban i. The elder Ambani is the CEO of Reliance Industries, a conglomerate whose businesses include various energy, communications, textile, and chemical interests.
With an estimated net worth of about $120 billion (as of July 3, 2024), the father of the groom is among the two wealthiest people in Asia, and the 11th-richest person in the world. In February, Disney merged its Indian operations with Reliance in a reported $8.5 billion deal .
Anant, who owns a percentage of Reliance, received a bachelor’s degree from Brown University in 2017. He has an older sister, Isha Ambani, and an older brother, Aakash Ambani. Anant is a non-executive director at Reliance .
He sits on the board of the conglomerate’s Reliance Foundation, as well as the board of Reliance Industries itself, and he is .