Meet Nikhil Nanda, Amitabh Bachchan’s son-in-law runs Rs 7000-crore business empire
Meet Nikhil Nanda, Amitabh Bachchan’s son-in-law runs
Rs 7000-crore business empire
Nikhil Nanda is related to both the Bachchan family and the Kapoor family
Nikhil Nanda is related to both the Bachchan family and the Kapoor family
Nikhil Nanda, MD and Chairman of Escorts Limited, is related to both Raj Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan.
Although Nikhil Nanda has nothing to do In the entertainment industry, yet,
he is still Bollywood royalty.
The businessman is late Raj Kapoor’s grandson, the first cousin of Ranbir Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor also related to Amitabh Bachchan. Yet, the businessman has maintained a largely low profile.
For the uninitiated, Nikhil Nanda is the son of industrialist Rajan Nanda and his wife Ritu, the daughter of legendary actor-producer Raj Kapoor.
This makes actors Rishi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, and Rajiv Kapoor his maternal uncles, and their kids, Ranbir Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Karisma Kapoor and Riddhima Kapoor, his first cousins.
The 1974 Delhi born Nikhil has attended the prestigious Doon School in Dehradun and went on to study business management at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Notably, Nikhil Nanda in 1997, tied the knot with Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan’s daughter Shweta Bachchan. They were both 23 at the time. The marriage, which was highly publicised as the ‘merger’ of two illustrious Bollywood families, saw in attendance some of the bigwigs of Indian industry and entertainment worlds. Nikhil and Shweta have two children, daughter Navya Naveli Nanda and son Agastya Nanda.
Nikhil Nanda’s paternal grandfather Har Prasad Nanda established Escorts Limited in 1944. Following his death, Nikhil’s father Rajan ran the company. In 2005, Nikhil began working at th Escorts Group as the Chief Operating Officer, after which he was promoted to Joint Managing Director and eventually Managing Director (MD).
Ater the death of his father in 2018, he was appointed Chairman as well. Escorts group, known as Escorts Kubota Limited, is a conglomerate active in agricultural machinery, automotive, and engineering sectors. In 2021, the company has a revenue of Rs 7014 crore ($880 mllion), and provides employment to over 10,000 people.
News input KV Raman
