Anant-Radhika Wedding Festivities: Mukesh Ambani Sees Off Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu

With folded hands, Mukesh Ambani on Sunday bid farewell to Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu, who had come to Mumbai to participate in the Anant Ambani-Radhika Merchant wedding festivities.

Ambani is seen escorting Naidu till his car and thanking him.

Anant, the younger son of Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and philanthropist Nita Ambani, on July 12 got married to pharmaceutical heiress and childhood sweetheart Radhika Merchant at a star-studded event attended by celebrities from across the globe, politicians, who’s who of Hindi and south Indian cinema world and almost all the top cricketers of the country.

Saturday (July 13) was the Shubh Aashirwad ceremony for the couple. Political bigwigs namely Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former President Ram Nath Kovind, Andhra Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, Union Minister Chirag Paswan, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath, and Congress leader Sachin Pilot attended the event. Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, and deputy CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar, too, attended the ceremony.

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian and her sister Khloe, Nigerian rapper Rema, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, and global business tycoons ranging from oil giant Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser to Samsung Electronics chairman Jay Lee and drug major GSK plc chief executive Emma Walmsley were in attendance at the event that has been dubbed as the ‘wedding of the year’.

The three-day wedding extravaganza is the final stop in a string of lavish parties the family has hosted since March. The Ambanis have hosted three lavish pre-wedding parties.

First a three-day pre-wedding celebration was held in March in the family’s refinery township of Jamnagar in Gujarat that hosted tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner in the 1,200-strong guest list, and had an exclusive performance by Rihanna. David Blaine did magic tricks and the festivities also involved a trip to Ambani’s ‘animal rescue center’ housing exotic animals.

In May, the Ambanis set off on a four-day Mediterranean cruise starting in the Italian city of Palermo, featuring on-deck concerts from the Backstreet Boys, Pitbull, and David Guetta, and a performance by Katy Perry at a masquerade ball at the Château de la Croix des Gardes mansion in France. DJ David Guetta played at a toga party at sea. The cruise ended in Italy’s Portofino, where tenor Andrea Bocelli serenaded the party in the town square.