Anant Ambani, the youngest son of Asia’s richest man, on Friday married pharmaceutical heiress and babysitter Radhika Merchant in a lavish ceremony attended by international celebrities, politicians, people from Hindi and South India came. the world of cinema and almost the best cricket players in the country. Reality TV shows Kim Kardashian and her sister Khloe, Nigerian singer Rema, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and global businessmen from oil giant Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser to Samsung Electronics CEO Jay Lee and GSK plc CEO Emma Walmsley. coming up with an event called ‘the wedding of the year’. Almost all the Bollywood actors – from Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan to Ajay Devgn, Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Tiger Shroff and Varun Dhawan – were in it, many in the family them, where superstars Rajinikanth, Ram Charan and Mahesh. Babu led these people from the south.
The wedding saw an influx of Indian cricketers – from icons like Sachin Tendulkar and Mahendra Singh Dhoni to last year’s great Krish Srikkanth and recent influences Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya and Suryakumar Yadav. Anant, 29, married Radhika, the daughter of Indian drug tycoons Viren and Shaila Merchant, in a traditional Hindu ceremony at Mumbai’s Jio World Drive, a convention center built and owned by the Ambani family.
Earlier, the groom, dressed in a rust orange sherwani, left Antilia – the home of the Ambani family – in a beautiful red car draped in white flowers for the venue, where ‘baraat’ will be gathered for the ceremony. short walk to the mandap. Pastel hues of the designer duo Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla dominate the clothes of the Ambani family – from the father and chairman of oil and telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries, Mukesh, to mother Nita, sister Isha and husband Anand Piramal, and his brother . Akash. Aakash’s wife Shloka Metha was the only exception wearing a hot pink lehenga embellished with crystals. And the visitors, both Indians and foreigners followed the dress code.
American actor and singer John Cena and Tamil superstar Rajinikanth joined Anil Kapoor, Ranveer Singh and wife Anant Ambani himself for dancing at the ‘baraat’. Shah Rukh Khan kissed and danced with Nita as she and her husband welcomed King Khan and his family.
Some, like Ananya Panday, put the message “Anant’s Brigade” on their clothes for the baraat. Others have written “Mere Yaar ki Shaadi”. , The lavish three-day wedding was the latest stop in a series of lavish celebrations the family has been holding since March. The couple got married in January 2023 and the Ambanis threw three lavish wedding parties. First, a three-day pre-wedding ceremony took place in March at the family’s Jamnagar estate in Gujarat, which hosted tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner among 1,200 guests. special performance … from Rihanna.
David Blaine performed a magic trick and the event also included a visit to the ‘animal rescue’ where Ambani lives in a zoo. In May, the Ambanis embarked on a four-day tour of the Mediterranean from the Italian city of Palermo, featuring performances by the Backstreet Boys, Pitbull and David Guetta, as well as Katy Perry performing at a covered ball at the Château de la Croix. des Gardes in France. DJ David Guetta plays at a toga party on the beach. Anant wears a sherwani, which features a bandhgala neckline, intricate gold embroidery, button front closure, long sleeves and padded shoulders, white pajamas, beige sneakers embellished with gold sequins and gold elephant brooch.
Not only did the Ambani family support the groom in ethnic attire, but the guests who arrived also wore designer Indian clothes. John Cena arrived at the wedding in a dusty blue bandhgala with silver embroidery.
The Kardashians, who arrived here on Thursday evening for a red carpet reception at the Taj Mahal Hotel, took a rickshaw ride through the busy streets of Mumbai before the wedding. The sisters reportedly brought in a team of stylists, including celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton, and a team of producers to capture every detail of their trip.