Word: ambani
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...Guru is another fictionalized bio-pic, this time taking inspiration from the career of Indian business executive Dhirajlal Ambani. Known as Dhirubhai, Ambani rose from rural nobody to towering tycoon without the usual benefits of family wealth, education or connection. He was the founder and chairman of Reliance Industries, manufacturer of the polyester that clothed India (and in the 70s lent its kitchy style to tight-pantsed Bollywood actors like Amitabh). By Dhirubhai's death in 2002, Reliance was India's largest corporation, a leader in petrochemicals and a dozen other interests and the largest corporation. A Times of India...
Summers, a co-chair for the annual meeting, was joined by Mukesh D. Ambani, chairman and managing director of India-based Reliance Industries; Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, chairman and chief executive officer of Nestlé in Switzerland; Sir Martin Sorrell, group chief executive of WPP; and London Business School Dean Laura D. Tyson...
...Johannesburg. And in August, he returned to host a second series of the blockbuster television game show Kaun Banega Crorepati, the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? "He's a mythic figure," says Bend it Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha. Bachchan's friend, Reliance billionaire Anil Ambani, calls him "the biggest star India has ever known...
...natty beard and banker's suit. And to its delight, India found that the brooding action man of the 1970s was now sophisticated, self-deprecating and witty, exuding comfortable prosperity rather than rebellion?just what was needed at a time when India was dreaming about getting rich. Industrialist Ambani calls Bachchan's new incarnation "the avuncular older citizen who embodies the materialist aspirations of India's emerging middle class...
...midst of a series of ambitious ventures, such as opening up new power plants, the future of which might be jeopardized if the current wrangle goes on. Carving up the conglomerate between the brothers is one option, although Reliance's complex ownership structure?the company is controlled by the Ambanis through a web of holding companies?would not make such a division easy. Supporters of the two brothers also disagree about who controls these holding companies?Mukesh, as the chairman of Reliance Industries, or the entire Ambani family. A less painful option than the division of the whole company might...