Kalanithi Maran: Richest Filmmaker with Rs 26,000 Crore Empire, Surpassing SRK, Karan Johar
Kalanithi Maran: Richest Filmmaker with Rs 26,000 Crore Empire, Surpassing SRK, Karan Johar
- •Kalanithi Maran, head of Sun Group, is the richest filmmaker in India with a fortune of Rs 26,000 crore ($2.8 billion), surpassing Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, and Karan Johar.
- •Maran started his business with a magazine 'Poomalai' in 1990 and launched 'Sun TV' in 1993, which grew into the country's largest media network with over 30 TV channels, newspapers, magazines, Sun Direct DTH, and Sun NXT OTT.
- •His production house, Sun Pictures, has produced pan-India blockbusters like Rajinikanth's Enthiran, Petta, and Jailer, and Vijay's Beast and Coolie.
- •Maran also owns the IPL team Sunrisers Hyderabad and Sunrisers Eastern Cape, with his wife Kavery Maran as Executive Director of Sun Network and daughter Kaviya Maran as CEO of cricket franchises.
- •Maran's Rs 26,000 crore fortune significantly dwarfs Shah Rukh Khan's Rs 7,300 crore, Amitabh Bachchan's Rs 1,600 crore, Karan Johar's Rs 1,400 crore, and Aditya Chopra's Rs 7,700 crore.
