Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani was born on April 19, 1957, in the Gujarati Hindu household of Dhirubhai and Kokilaben Ambani in the British Crown colony of Aden (modern-day Yemen). He has two sisters, Dipti Dattaraj Salgaonkar and Nina Bhadrashyam Kothari, and a younger brother, Anil Ambani.
Ambani was only in Yemen for a short time because his father returned to India in 1958[14] to establish a commercial company specialising in textiles and spices. The latter was formerly known as "Vimal" before being renamed "Only Vimal."[15][16] Up until the 1970s, his family resided in a small two-bedroom flat in Bhuleshwar, Mumbai.[17] After moving to India, the family's financial situation somewhat improved, but Ambani continued to live in a communal community, take public transit, and never got
Hood Index" calculated that Ambani's personal fortune could sustain the federal government of India's operations for a period of twenty days.[51]
A First Information Report (FIR) claiming criminal crimes against Mukesh Ambani was filed in February 2014 due to purported anomalies in the natural gas price from the KG basin.[52] Arvind Kejriwal, who ordered the FIR during his brief tenure as chief minister of Delhi, has blamed different political parties of being mute on the issue of petrol prices.[53] Kejriwal has requested that Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi clarify their positions about the matter of petrol pricing.[54][55] Kejriwal has said that despite Mukesh Ambani's company spending just one dollar to buy petrol, the Centre permitted the price to rise to eight dollars per unit.
He wed Nita Ambani in 1985, and together they had two boys, Akash and Anant, and a twin daughter, Isha.[3][76] They got together after his father went to a dance show where Nita performed and considered setting up their marriage.[77]
Their mansion, Antilia, is a private 27-story structure located in Mumbai. When it was constructed, it was the most expensive private property globally, valued at US$1 billion.[33][78] The building has three helipads, a 160-car garage, a private movie theatre, a swimming pool and a fitness centre. Maintenance on the skyscraper calls for 600 workers.[79]
On her 44th birthday in 2007, Ambani gave his wife a $60 million Airbus A319 as a gift.[80] The Airbus, possessing a
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