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The Ambani wedding is set to happen at the family’s Mumbai mansion, Antilia. Take a look at the $1 billion tower.

July 12, 20240
Mukesh Ambani, Isha Ambani Piramal, Rihanna, Shloka Mehta Ambani, Akash Ambani, and Radhika Merchant onstage during pre-wedding celebrations for Anant Ambani and Merchant.

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The pre-wedding festivities for Anant, 29, and Radhika, 29, included a private Rihanna concert and meals prepared by 100 chefs. The young couple both sit on the board of their family’s companies, conglomerate Reliance Industries and pharmaceutical giant Encore Healthcare, respectively.

Anant Ambani’s pre-wedding parties hosted tons of high-profile guests.
Akash Ambani, Anant Ambani, Isha Ambani, Nita Ambani, and Mukesh Ambani.

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Isha and Akash are twins, and they’re the oldest Ambani children. Anant is their younger brother. It’s unclear who lives at Antilia full-time, though the Huffington Post reported that the home required a staff of 600.

Mukesh Ambani is considered India’s richest man.
The Ambanis’ tower, called Antilia, rises above the Mumbai skyline.

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The Ambani family’s home is the most expensive private residence in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. (Other rankings put it second, after Buckingham Palace.)

The tower is called Antilia, named after a mythical island in the Atlantic Ocean.
Antilia is on the most exclusive residential road in Mumbai: Altamount Road.

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The Ambanis’ house was constructed between 2006 and 2010, according to Architectural Digest India. At the time, it cost an estimated $1 billion to build, but there’s no way of knowing what the tower is worth today.

Inside Antilia, there are nine elevators, a 50-seat cinema, and a full-service spa.
Antilia is sometimes lit up at night.

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In 2011, The New York Times reported Mumbai’s elite were speculating that the Ambanis hadn’t yet moved into the tower. Antilia didn’t align with Hindu architectural philosophy, one expert said.

There’s luxury art inside Antilia.
Antilia tower lit up in January.

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The Ambani family hosted a light show at Antilia in January 2024 in honor of the historic inauguration of Ram Mandir, a gigantic new temple in the ancient city of Ayodhya.

Holograms of religious sayings adorned the building. Visitors flocked to see the bedazzled tower and get close to one of India’s most iconic homes.

Antilia’s opulence has drawn criticism.
The entrance to the Ambani family’s Mumbai home, a 27-story tower called Antilia, is decorated ahead of the wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant.

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Preparations have begun at the tower, according to Reuters, but organizers remain tight-lipped about the details of the exclusive event.

A-listers including Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Nick Jonas, and Priyanka Chopra had already landed in Mumbai by July 11, ahead of the main event, according to Fortune and People.

The particulars of the actual events are still under wraps, but Vanity Fair said the wedding date was chosen based on the couple’s astrological charts.

Locals are already complaining about the traffic the wedding is expected to cause in Mumbai.
Excitement — and traffic jams — are building in Mumbai ahead of the wedding.

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Traffic has already slowed down around Antilia and the Jio World Convention Center, Reuters reported.

Mumbai is notorious for traffic congestion and the city is expecting additional slowdowns during the massive event.

Correction: March 7, 2024 — An earlier version of this story incorrectly described the age of Anant Ambani. He’s the youngest son of Mukesh and Nita Ambani, not the eldest. It also misidentified one of the people in a photo from the family’s pre-wedding celebrations. It’s Paula Hurd, not Melinda French Gates.