The Ambani family greeted Shanteri Nayak, the owner of Café Mysore in Matunga, warmly as they thanked her for attending the wedding celebrations of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant.
In the video, Anant Ambani is seeing introducing Radhika Merchant to Nayak, even as Anand Piramal and Shloka Mehta greet her with folded hands.
“We eat your food every Sunday,” says Radhika, as she thanks Nayak for attending the festivities. Anant is seen thanking Nayak, as all of them touch her feet.
Café Mysore is popular in the Ambani household. In an earlier interview with India Today, Mukesh Ambani had said: “In 1975-79, four years of chemical engineering [at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Matunga], I used to eat from there. We still order idlis and dosas from Mysore Café and go there once a week.”
Established in 1936, Cafe Mysore is one of the oldest restaurants in Matunga. Founded by A Rama Nayak, who was born in the village of Akkar, Mangalore, Karnataka, it remains a popular legacy joint for South Indian food in Mumbai. Rama Nayak had dropped out of school and started making and selling idlis and dosas. A few years later, he set up his first restaurant in Matunga.
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. Anant’s siblings Reliance Jio Infocomm chairman Akash Ambani with his wife Shloka Mehta and kids Veda and Prithvi, and Isha Ambani, who heads Reliance Retail, with her husband Anand Piramal and her kids, Aadiya Shakti and Krishna were seen attending to the guests and enthusiastically taking part in the grand celebrations.
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 were in attendance at the event that has been dubbed as the ‘wedding of the year’.
Sunday was the reception, with a gathering on Monday for Reliance, Jio employees and the media.
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