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In 2022, he ranked #4 on Forbes India cinema.
rich list with a net worth of $24.3 billion. Rajinikanth, who
He was numero uno in Hurun Global began his career
Healthcare Rich List 2022. in 1975, remains
In recent times, his son and CEO of the one of Tamil
company Adar is more the face and voice of cinema’s biggest
SII, Senior Poonawalla was honoured with names despite
the Padma Bhushan in 2022 for his lifetime the emergence of
of work in the biotech space. younger stars. The mass hero is regarded
as a synonym for style and swag.
19. Nandan Nilekani, 67, Entrepreneur From people worshiping him with milk
Long before before his film release to politicians
Aadhaar, Nilekani, quaking when he speaks his mind, his
who was then CEO, words have a tremendous impact on
president and people.
managing director
of Infosys, was 21. Dilip Shanghvi, 67, Businessman
selling a vision of Widely regarded
India to the world as the ‘Medicine
that today is much more apparent to many. Moghul’, Dilip
Nilekani has risen to become the best- Shanghvi worked
known figure among a small elite who hard to make Sun
straddled private enterprise and public Pharmaceuticals
service to wow the world with what was the largest drug
possible in India. company in India
Back in Infosys at the helm, Nilekani and fifth largest in the world.
pledges to stay there till he can find the Shanghvi started by helping his father
right successor. He spoke of how the world in his business, which was a wholesale
is marvelling at India’s fintech revolution, dealership of medicines. It was during this
with Aadhaar and the Unified Payments work that he thought of manufacturing his
Interface (UPI), but ever looking ahead, own drugs instead of selling products made
added “this is just a part of the journey, by others.
there are a few things that are coming.” In 1982, the 27-year-old Shanghvi finally
An author of bestselling books, Nilekani’s opened his first manufacturing unit with
voice is much respected across the nation a capital of 10,000 rupees. He named his
on business and social issues. A true venture Sun Pharmaceutical Industries.
visionary of our times, India is lucky to The unit, in his native state of Gujarat
have not lost him to foreign shores. (Vapi), produced exactly one psychiatry
drug. However, the business soon picked
20. Rajnikanth, 73, Actor up, thanks to Shanghvi’s acumen and
Shivajirao Gaekwad was born in humble energy
environs and evolved from a bus conductor Today, Dilip Shanghvi is one of India’s
to one of biggest megastars in Indian richest and most influential people,
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