Anant Ambani-Radhika Merchant Pre-Wedding Bash: From ‘Saffron Penda’ to ‘Aam Panna’, the Welcome Menu for Guests

From ‘saffron penda’ and ‘mohanthal’ in sweets to refreshing drinks like ‘aam panna’, guests at the pre-wedding festivities of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant are being welcomed at the Jamnagar venue with sweet and savoury delicacies.

Convoys of luxury cars lined up at the Jamnagar airport for the second consecutive day on Friday as eminent personalities and celebrities from around the world arrived to attend the three-day pre-wedding festivities beginning March 1 in Gujarat’s Jamnagar.

Anant Ambani, the youngest of the three children of Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani, is set to marry Radhika Merchant, the younger daughter of Viren Merchant, CEO of Encore Healthcare, and entrepreneur Shaila Merchant.

A green room decked with various types of flowers has been set up for the guests and security has been deployed in large numbers for their safety.

Sweets the guests are being welcomed with include saffron penda, dry fruit sukhdi, churma laddus, pistachio sweets, halvasana, mohanthal and surti ghari. The welcome drinks include mango panna and lemon shikanji.

The guest list includes international business leaders like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Adnoc CEO Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, and EL Rothschild chair Lynn Forester de Rothschild.

Indian business magnates invited include Gautam Adani and family, Tata Sons chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran , Aditya Birla Group Chairperson Kumar Mangalam Birla, and his family, Godrej family, Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani, RPSG Group head Sanjiv Goenka, Wipro’s Rishad Premji, banker Uday Kotak, vaccine maker Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla, Airtel chairman Sunil Mittal, Hero’s Pawan Munjal, Roshni Nadar of HCL, Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath, entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala and Sun Pharma’s Dilip Sanghi.

Top cricketers, including Sachin Tendulkar and family, MS Dhoni and family, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Hardik and Krunal Pandya and Ishan Kishan too are on the invitee list.

Bollywood will be represented by mega stars Amitabh Bachchan and family, Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan and family, Amir Khan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna, Ajay Devgn and Kajol, Saif Ali Khan and family, Chunky Pandey, Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif.

Madhuri Dikshit and Sriram Nene, Aditya and Rani Chopra, Karan Johar, Boney Kapoor and family, Anil Kapoor and family, Varun Dhawan, Sidharth Malhotra, Shraddha Kapoor and Karisma Kapoor, Rajnikanth and family are also on the invitee list.