Word: dhirubhai
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...hero, played by Abhishek, is named Gurukant Desai, and Ratnam has insisted that any similarities are coincidental: "The film is purely fictional and could be based on anyone's life." Sure, and Citizen Kane wasn't inspired by the life of William Randolph Hearst. Guru's plot frequently references Dhirubhai's life story. And unlike Kane, this movie dispenses with the muckraking for hagiography. The Ambani estate is protective of its founder's legacy, but at least two members of the family gave their blessing to Guru's stars: Dhirubahi's son Anil Ambani, chairman of Reliance Capital, attended...
...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...
...Here's the basic story... Born in Gujurat, the son of a school teacher, Desai goes abroad as a teenager (heading for Istanbul, not Aden, where Dhirubhai landed) to learn business. He returns a decade later to start a textile company, in partnership with a more cautious cousin who later leaves in a dispute over our hero's risky ways. He switches from cotton to polyester and makes his fortune, creating India's biggest company, in part by encouraging the rising middle class to invest in it (tens of thousands flock to his shareholder meetings). He suffers a stroke that...
...problems started with two words. On Nov. 19, India's newspapers carried front-page reports that Mukesh Ambani, the 47-year-old son of Dhirubhai and the chairman of Reliance Industries, the group's flagship petrochemicals and oil venture, had admitted to "ownership issues" at the company, which he and younger brother Anil, the vice chairman, had been running since their father's death in July 2002. For four days speculation ran amok in the Indian press that the brothers had started sparring over control of Reliance. On Nov. 22, Mukesh issued a statement saying that his words had been...
...formal letter to Mukesh complaining that he had received no reply to his July e-mail and expressing "deep concern at this unhappy turn of events, and the sad reflection it represents of how we are seeking to preserve, and carry forward the legacy ... of our beloved founder Chairman, Dhirubhai Ambani." A senior Reliance official close to Mukesh insists that he was not trying to extend his powers at Anil's expense but merely emphasizing that the chairman ran Reliance. Although the crux of the dispute appears to be Anil's growing conviction that he was being sidelined...