Boy Billionaires
This is not a movie story, real! Only nine years old, the owner of the palace, private jet, and supercar! Get to know the richest child in the world. Even today, many may not be able to remember exactly how many zeros will sit in one billion US dollars. And at the age of nine, he is not even supposed to come to mind. To make this impossible possible, Muhammad Awal Mustafa, known as Momfa Jr. Due to his extremely luxurious lifestyle, at just nine years old, he became known as the 'youngest billionaire in the world'.
Palaces, private jets, luxury supercars - whatnot! Although many people think that age is just a number, at the age of 7, Momfa has become the owner of a luxurious palace. Junior travels the world on a private jet. And in his garage, a lot of supercars like a Ferrari, Bentley Flying Spur, and Rolls-Royce Way.
In addition to the palace he found at the age of six, he has several other palaces. She is often seen on social media posing next to her supercars, wearing stylish and designer clothing from international brands such as Versace or Gucci. Many people are surprised by this news.
Who is this Mustafa Jr.?
He is a resident of Nigeria. The son of multimillionaire Nigerian internet celebrity Ismailia Mustafa Muhammad Awal Mustafa. Momfa Jr. and her younger sister are often seen on the father's Instagram page. The source of this luxurious life of Momfa Jr. is his father. However, like his father, he is on his way to becoming a social media influencer. Now the number of followers on his Instagram account has crossed 25,000. It is on this account that one can see the pictures of the luxurious lifestyle of this tiny billionaire.
A photo shows him sitting inside a private jet eating. A picture shows the collection of his car. Somewhere in the caption of the pictures is written 'Happy Birthday to me', which means he gave himself a birthday present. Somewhere it is said 'Thanks Daddy', meaning that he got that gift from his father. However, despite owning multiple palaces and a supercar, Momfa Jr.'s favorite is his first palace. The mansion was bought by Momfah Jr. on his sixth birthday in 2016 by his father,
Bad Boy Billionaires India:
Bad Boy Billionaires: India is a refresher course on how some individuals can hold and wield too much power, that they seem to be beyond reproach. The documentary series brings home that truth and how.
Contrary to the people it features — the big, bad flamboyant newsmakers of Indian business — the documentary series Bad Boy Billionaires: India dropped rather quietly on Netflix today. The three episodes of the documentary series feature the stories of Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, and Subrata Roy who have been in the news for charges of fraud, money laundering, and defrauding public sector banks. A fourth episode revolving around IT giant Ramalinga Raju is currently unavailable on the streaming service.
For starters, let’s make it clear that the series — which has a separate director for each individual episode — doesn’t shed any new light on these three newsmakers. Everything that the makers showcase is very much available in the public domain. But what it does is, bring all that information together coherently and weave a pretty engrossing narrative. Divided into three separate episodes, the one with Mallya is called ‘The King of Good Times’, the one with Modi is aptly titled ‘Diamonds aren’t Forever’, and the one featuring Roy is called ‘The World’s biggest family’. The series crunches inches and inches of newsprint and hours and hours of news footage into a ‘Cliffs Notes’ version of what really happened. It’s how the narrative is stitched that is noteworthy.
We get a sneak peek into the world of Vijay Mallya, his lavish parties, and how he craved glamour and liked being the center of attention. The episode with Mallya is particularly well done, as we hear from his son Sid Mallya, Kiran Majumder-Shaw (a family friend), and many people who were close to him. Industry experts and other journalists who followed this story are featured in the episode. We go through the whole gamut, as we see the meteoric rise of Mallya, his eventual crash, and the Rs 9000 crore loan that he had defaulted upon.
A similar storyline is woven for Nirav Modi, this jeweler who had risen out of nowhere, and was even featured on the cover of Sotheby's. We meet people who worked with him, and some for him. A lot is said about his attention to detail and how he too loved the high life. Eventually, it all came tumbling down, when a bank employee retires, and his successor is unable to provide the same ‘flexible’ and ‘easy’ terms to Modi.
The episode with Subrata Roy is the longest, and perhaps the one that impacts the Aam junta the most. We see a dramatized version of a young Roy in his 30s roaming around the UP hinterland on his Lambretta, and there is a Kinley water bottle in the basket of the scooter. Not sure if there was a time when the two brands overlapped in India. But kudos for trying to paint an authentic picture.
Roy had the poorest of Indians invest in what can be called a ‘pyramid scheme’, where many had divested their hard-earned daily wages into a scheme that promised that their investment would ‘double or triple’ in a said amount of time. He allegedly used that investment to fund his airlines, his dream project of Amby Valley, and his company’s sponsorship of the Indian cricket team. Roy was even jailed for two years. He is currently out on bail.
Bad Boy Billionaires: India is a refresher course on how some individuals can hold and wield too much power, that they seem to be beyond reproach. The documentary series brings home that truth and how. All good documentaries make you pause and ponder. This one surely makes one think, wonder and then ultimately question if it is that easy to fraud a nationalized bank of Rs 9000 crore. And no one will notice anything? Nirav Modi allegedly kept on bribing employees of another nationalized bank for six years. Remember all the paperwork it takes to open an account in any one of the 19 nationalized banks of India? But here, defrauding them seems far easier. Subrata Roy took it to another level, where he bypassed all banking systems and financial institutions, and went straight to the public and asked for money.
The documentary series if nothing else, makes you feel foolish as you wonder if your credit limit is not over-extended for this month. But here, these big powerful people were allowed to exploit the system and use it to their advantage and go scot-free.
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