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. me. from glitzy wedding to luxury yachts and leasing. india's billionaires live in a world of extreme glamour and lavish spending. while many indians still live clulow the poverty line the country now has more billionaires than almost anywhere else in the world. and steve cho on this episode when he's goes inside the privileged world of the super rich to meet india's new maharajah's. a short distance from new delhi india's capital this luxury its residents is preparing to host one of the most anticipated weddings of the year
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a glamorous saint celebration the alliance of two wealthy families of the textile industry before one thousand guests. but i love it i love you did not think i did. bridegroom with the licensed fashion accessory among the indian nouveau rakish and necklace of banknotes to assert power and prosperity. the bribes cousin and guess de bono. nutra is a young millionaire who defines himself as an internet entrepreneur he's given a large donation to the company. and i don't really need a lot of nagano obviously i needed a lot. and the women i. know yeah definitely and still proud of that.
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at twenty two years old ivan says he earns nearly a million dollars a month and spends two thirds of the year travelling after the country but he wouldn't have missed this wedding but anything i don't lose touch with in life when i was brought up in what i grew up with your that's what they say doesn't matter how successful you get don't forget where you came from indian writing is mostly gone for a long time usually at least a week with five or six functions and it means a lot it's a very excessive over the top for you so you have telephone to have an indian politics right indian rhetoric so that deficit thing enjoy official. india is home to more than one hundred billion it's thanks to the country's tremendous economic growth. evan lives with his parents in this luxury q. clicks in new delhi. when he was only twelve he created his first smartphone app he started his business believing high school. this is
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a goal set aside for myself by twenty one i want to be humiliating one which i'm pretty close my twenty toed i want to be at a million a week and my twenty five a million and a. i even love showing off his success. i i got him it's i i love gold and black these are two of my colors which i really like so i even i got this solid gold i phone seven made because i'm always on the phone i paid ten thousand pounds for this but want to sell it was probably going to sell for a lot more than ten thousand in a couple years because it's just an awesome. reptile skins is another of his weaknesses it's all by far it's got a legal opinion to work by probably going to jail for this the how but i mean pretty sure nobody really cares and there's a lot of people thought and it's all in the open so. even if
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office is at the headquarters of the family business. his road to success developing services to smart phones using india's pool of cheap talented labor. in the basement of the building his team of computer specialists create mobile apps . on top of his latest development targets the world's young rich old office table to make let's listen if somebody wants to go out with your friends and they want to have a table read to you for themselves going to the service you want to they intend to spend money this simple as you book a table with a clip of what. evan also buys other people's ideas he invests in start ups and watches his money grow on my ninety thousand dollars and i invested is what now a two million in that company he gets his business skills from his father an entrepreneur he made his school in the passion and textile industry. he
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provided it and with an initial investment to kick start his business. at first skeptical evans father is now amazed by his son's achievements. going that far better than you can imagine. that facility. kids you know even don't know what to do but he on his own kid knows if you hear it like what. i've been success stylites is father but he son spending is hard to accept religion and tradition hold an important place in the family but if you'd rather not. brought by a pretty boy the other day you know it you know it just all of that is like that. but traditions will have to white even is organizing his next trips to europe and the united states where he will be able to satisfy his thirst for glitz and glamour
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. but he's not the only one breaking from tradition. village ten hour drive from mumbai is far from the world of the super rich. here most people live in demick poverty. kalponik was born into a family of untouchability today she heads a real estate empire worth more than three hundred fifty million dollars. this is the house. it has some money hey give me a nice gentle young people i hear. you say we're going to come way yeah they use me he said you didn't hear. my lungs you took a. phone. these days only her five year old lives here. she refuses to leave me to let.
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me mommy when i see her. not gonna quit but i'm going to be funny like the here will be clear need it you. can see bold you're going to be taken for granted. and see what he has made. many in. his return to the village brings a crowd. yet you will go it will of. use five years when he does when we put out. this we're no better yeah. yeah but just look at. india the untouchables are the lowest in the hindu social hierarchy. i shun community considered impure.
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people. that have. that many bad and yes he can sit back and get my job i can get going but don't tell me that that in the old voice environment we had at the will to live that made us that it was a year we'll be working now it is. one of the we're sick of moving over me give you a little glance of anything it'll be it's going to. compound a regularly returns to her village to organize charity dies this morning she's ignore gracing a temporary medical camp which offers free i care and glasses. yet with america in the us how they are not. getting any just the not. just the date. but the new republic that was offended and you know they have to do
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it. the nearest hospital least two hours walk from here. and it up you get anybody nobody will be cowed problem so. was all you got me tell you what we were. some i'd give you this. had now become a part of the but i give it to your pathetic. married at the age of twelve kalponik went to live in a slum and was abused by her in-laws. who family managed to get her a divorce but her return to the village was difficult. but maybe. you are not a little bit about. the low good to her. that i thought i could but. don't go to not just go just going to poison the.
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little bit of the office door that is the street. at the age of sixteen campana decided to leave from mumbai. she worked as a seamstress in a garment factory and saved a small sum. she used to invest in real estate. the first move was to buy a piece of land in the north of the city. she resold at a premium brand. new in remarkably good will hunting. will. go good there you. go to the. manager. company. well behold what i've. got to buy we've got to buy up now make hasty.
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today kalponik heads a powerful real estate in construction materials group based and don't have to i'm here i'm going to do your one could be wouldn't miss for you to meet her then i'm president i really really don't know you're going to see me. the third we have an update and here. you looking. despite the multi-million dollar projects that she manages calpine and her family don't lock themselves away in a bubble of luxury. on sundays kalponik entertains modestly and. stays open all day for family and neighbors but also for those who come to us. oxo mother but. the one leg. i to this couple comes from her village i have just traveled fifteen hours by the
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boss to tell her that they two daughters are getting married. that. i said that it might not. but i was. there fifty thousand rupees gold and seven thousand dollars for this family of farmers it's the equivalent of a big new year's income of less than one. gasol yeah. you did that with that that you were i didn't. know i just like. oh it. was.
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white sandy beaches lined with coconut trees go on india's west coast is the playground of billionaires. the week over my storefront. we go this one to go and call on a little bit broader. gautam singh gandhi or is one of the most famous billionaires in india he manages the country's largest clothing brand. the fifty year old king of textiles heads a fortune estimated at one point five billion dollars. this weekend he's on his yoest a shana a fifty maize a long three story floating palace built entirely awesome precious would. take the boat to the maldives. you know if. you haven't been in
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a long time the one who got us all but it's only eleven am the posse has already started. for these old school friends the weekend in goa is a reunion not to be missed. the breakfast and truffle omelette caviar japanese chocolates and find in teach wines separate wishes and caviar dreams and i'm. in. london and that. is. lectionary. by the end of the morning the group of fifty somethings have already fallen back into adolescence it's only the song in the style of the toys that it's changed. back to mumbai and it's back to work. the family textile business and the bang this
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brand reiman boasts an annual turnover of more than eighty million dollars with three thousand shops across the country. today the group's big boss is inspecting his brands flagship store. gets down to eleven that it's a little distance from iran but it's cheaper. than ali or fabric to pay out of the fountain for life and. the rehman brand was launched by family at the beginning of the twentieth century. it was losing momentum when he took over in two thousand to die it's a huge success. business success means he can indulge in his passions.
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from high in textiles and suit jackets it is here that this baby damon gets his adrenaline rush. want to promote the sport stories his biggest needed two or three times a year of every day for coming director no there's no degree rise or any of that so it is just you know bring whatever you bought or people have his enthusiasm to dig out from adrenaline and. to become a good of a drag this type of a danger fascinates the in the inmates who are accustomed to the billion is escapades. to give the guy something gagnon decided to treat himself to the thrill of a true high speed right. to the timing like the time sitting on your sketch of the publicist tell me what it will tonight show type of sick on deal
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with the public stuff there are great it's going to. despite his busy schedule got him travels the world to live out his dream and fly the colors of the indian flag it's a vet check out flashing audio wins from print outs pay to the entrance ticket to the sunday sports event a million dollars at that price the souvenir video looks like the trial for an action film. for his first year the novice finished school wide. the new maharaj as of today see themselves as the heroes of modern india. but in a country where hundreds of millions live below the poverty line. the lives of the super rich can have a dockside. india ranks number one in the world photogs imagine more than five hundred billion dollars is said to be hidden abroad.
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most flamboyant away for default out of the business or bank housing or the getting the country now or has been developed by the government. they jane mallya made his fortune in the alcohol business as the boss of kingfisher beverages. he then launched his own airline earning the nickname india's richard branson. but rising oil prices ended up sinking his dream plunging into debt. once worth one point six billion dollars b.j. malley is indian property including villas planes and cars was supposed to be auctioned off to pay his criticism. but they're still waiting for their money they jay fled the country more than one point three billion dollars to india's banks.
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he ended up in london denying he was flaying his debts he calls his decision to move to the u.k. a forced exile. home for the billionaire izzy's beef to a million dollar mansion in hartford chip north of london our request for an interview went unanswered. but we finally caught sight of him last march when the formula one season kicked off. and. he shows up with his new car in front of cameras from all over the world. when questioned about his financial dealings v.j. says he has done nothing wrong by the north to one new rule personally to any bank. kingfisher airlines limited unfortunately closed down the business and to try to avoid me personally responsible become one fullface good two thirds of the
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country right. why should i buy my stuff all that has to be a drop. in the good charge against me which debt isn't. right. but back in india there are charges of defaulting on loans and money laundering v.j. was arrested in the u.k. i approve and again in october he was granted bail by three times and is now waiting for the courts to decide if he should be extradited to india to face the charges. meanwhile the new is to india's nouveau riche has arrived in london. we find the ambitious young millionaire i haven't lived in a gold for buy for marketing his new app bottle pop lemon is the best marketable you know there's just too many people spending too much disposable income on
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bottles that they don't remember the next day excluding myself you go out people and obviously the buy more and more champagne bottles in the spa clothes because to do it the girls cover the tables and that's what they want they want to show off it's a shallow society it's always the competition the ghost everybody can see everybody but that makes a commission what i wear our clothes so that's how we make money. with bottle bob evan can earn more than twenty thousand dollars in commission for each soiree. money flows freely in london the european finance capital attracting india's rich. business men have taken over london like crazy you know little and he's one of the biggest residences in any india. indian business that he's the largest private employer in all of the u.k. wherever he goes i even spend his time finding new business ideas. i have some
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friends and we have fun that's just investing in real companies to get the meeting with. the looking for deals all the time so if you can send me a picture doesn't matter where you. are right now that. is not enough for this millionaire he wants to be known and recognized throughout the world and for that posses are essential to his image. twenty four hours lanka. headed to the most chic area of the german capital. in a presidential suite costing three thousand dollars a not even is making million is under the age of twenty five. chinese german russian or indian. or pos of the rich kids of instagram. the
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world golden who displays themselves on social media. with videos and so freeze these i mean he booted rich kids like to take center stage online. the tag line is they have more money than you and this is what they do. you can see their pay trips that passion for parties and luxury. even luther has become one of the stars of the group right here i always say work smart play hard never seen it work on its own is about doing the right thing you know people love people and they will of hard work labor but they don't achieve
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anything in life a lot of who can make one phone call and like got a million bucks in the bank if you want to spend money like we do you can be stupid to people donate money to people so that people have money they're probably smart. evans objective is to flash his cash on social media and to grow his community of fans i mean i have like two hundred thousand followers they want to see in first place i'm going to going to give them because they it's just cheers she was there but it. was. after dinner the past the continuous loop getting close. up. look at me very much uploading. jewelry champagne and beautiful girls to not the apprentice billion is live all the cliches to feed their instagram accounts. of. the young high rollers can
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spend more than one hundred thousand dollars in one knocks. us in this success that gets them a success. new indian maharaj is like i've been are only at the beginning of their brand. hoping to boost india's place in the rankings of the world's biggest fortunes. this is our babies as a nation where we can find full blown baby's cases every thirty days on a visa patient i get my do with this that many of the family even never die he appreciates that what keeps us going to give to the prevention of such we
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