Big wigs from the world of politics, business, showbiz, sports arrive at Udaipur for the grand wedding.
Wedding season festivities doesn’t seem to end with one after another big name tying the knot. After Ranveer-Dipeeka and Priyanka-Nick, latest to get married are Isha Ambani and Anand Piramal.
Isha Ambani, 27, will marry Anand Piramal, 33, executive director of Piramal Group, in Mumbai on Tuesday, but the festivities began this weekend in Rajasthan’s ‘City of Lakes’ Udaipur, with three days of pre-wedding rituals.
For their guests, the Ambanis have booked several chartered flights. Over these two days, the Maharana Pratap Airport in Udaipur will see a lot of activity because of the pre-wedding festivities. All five-star hotels in the city are completely booked and are catering to the Ambanis’ and Piramals’ guests. The families have also booked over a thousand luxury cars to ferry their guests to and from the Udaipur airport.
A host of big names including newlywed Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan with his family, Aamir Khan, the Bachchans, Raveena Tandon with her daughter, Karisma Kapoor along with the other Kapoor sisters Janhvi and Khushi have flown to the scenic Rajasthan city for the lavish wedding.
Other high-profile corporate leaders attending the wedding festivities include Khalid Al-Falih, chairman of Saudi Aramco; Bill Winters, CEO, Standard Chartered Bank; WPP founder Martin Sorell; Kenneth Hitchner, chairman and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs in Asia Pacific ex-Japan; Nicolas Aguzin, chairman and CEO, JP Morgan Asia Pacific; Farhan Faruqui, group executive international, ANZ; Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum; Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post and CEO of Thrive Global; and Rajeev Suri, president and CEO of Nokia.
The guest list also includes former US secretary of state and Democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential election Hillary Clinton and Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. According to sources, US singer Beyonce will perform at the wedding.
Anil Kapoor, David Dhawan, Vidya Balan-Siddharth Roy Kapur, John Abraham-Priya Runchal and Javed Jaffrey, Sachin Tendulkar-Anjali Tendulkar, Sakshi Singh Dhoni and her daughter Ziva, among others, were also seen.
The soon-to-be-married couple will be seen in Manish Malhotra outfits.
The wedding will bring together two of India’s most prominent business families. RIL is India’s biggest private enterprise. The Piramals have interests in pharmaceuticals and real estate.
The couple’s engagement took place at the luxury Villa D’Este hotel on Italy’s Lake Como, attended by more than 600 guests, and featuring a private performance by singer John Legend.
Prasanta Patnaik