68-year-old billionaire Ravi Pillai has become the first Indian owner of the Airbus H145 helicopter. As per reports, he bought this aircraft for Rs 100 crore. This is not the first time, this Dubai-based tycoon has grabbed the headlines
In 2015, Ravi Pillai threw a lavish wedding for his daughter Dr Arathi Pillai who got married to Dr Adithya Vishnu. The wedding had around 32,000 guests from over 42 countries to attend the wedding. The wedding was attended by the royal family of Qatar, South Indian actors, and several politicians at Kollam
The lotus-themed wedding pandal worth more than Rs 20 crore was designed by award-winning Baahubali fame art designer Sabu Cyril. 200 specialists worked under him and it took 75 days to build the pandal, which covered 8 acres of land
Actors Manju Warrier and Shobhana gave special performances at the wedding. Some of the other highlights were the fusion music of Stephen Devassy, fusion dance by Navya Nair, ghazal recitals by Manjari
*Source: Forbes
Ravi Pillai, the founder and Chairman of RP Group has a net worth of $3.2 billion* as of April 7. He is known as a construction magnate in both India and Gulf region. But, the situation had not always been so rosy
Ravi Pillai was born into a farmers’ family in Kollam in Kerala. But his parents gave him the best education. He did MBA from Kochi University and later faced obstacles with the construction firm he built from the money he made from chit-fund business
Ravi had shut the construction firm and decided to go to Saudi Arabia in 1978. He eventually rose to form a construction company with 150 people. As per the website of RP Group, its workforce has today grown to over 70,000
Ravi Pillai runs several 5-star hotels like The Raviz Ashtamudi, The Raviz Kovalam and The Raviz Kadavu and has multiple properties across countries. As per reports, he also owns a Trump Tower luxury condo in Pune
In the Middle East, RP Group is among the largest employers of Indian workers. He was awarded the Pravasi Bhartiya Samman in 2008 and the Padma Shri award in 2010. He received a doctoral degree from New York’s Excelsior College in the US