Rihanna, Bill Gates, David Blaine, famous Bollywood actors and former heads of state are visiting India on Friday for lavish celebrations organized by tycoon Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man, ahead of his son’s wedding, AFP and Reuters reported. Agerpres.

Photos published by the Indian press confirm the arrival of Rihanna, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan in the city of Jamnagar, in the state of Gujarat, in the west of India. The R&B star, who became a mother for the second time in August, is expected to preside over the festivities and make her first public appearance since last year’s Super Bowl, local media reported.

India Today wrote that the performer would receive a fee of $9 million for participating in this event. Illusionist David Blaine and Bollywood star Diljit Dosanjh will perform for the brand guests at the event.

Patrons and CEOs of major international companies, Bollywood stars as well as political leaders will also attend the celebrations hosted by Mukesh Ambani.

Mukesh Ambani, 66, chairman of oil and telecommunications giant Reliance Industries, has the largest fortune in Asia and the tenth in the world, estimated at more than $116 billion, according to Forbes’ billionaires rankings.

On Wednesday evening, Ambani and his wife Nita, accompanied by their son Anant and his fiancee Radhika Merchant, kicked off the celebrations with a dinner for 50,000 residents of Jamnagar, home to Reliance Industries.

Earlier, Mukesh Ambani spent 100 million dollars on his daughter’s wedding

Anant Ambani, 28, sits on the board of directors of several companies owned by Reliance. Later this year, he will marry 29-year-old Radhika Merchant, the daughter of an Indian industrialist.

The Ambani family is going to build a huge Hindu temple complex in Jamnagar to celebrate the marriage of the newlyweds. “Marriage is at the heart of celebrations of India’s rich cultural and spiritual heritage,” Reliance Foundation said on its social media accounts.

In 2018, Ambani organized the most expensive wedding in India for his daughter, which cost $100 million and included a concert by American pop star Beyoncé.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Ivanka Trump, daughter of former US president, former prime ministers of Sweden Carl Bildt and Canadian Stephen Harper, King of Bhutan, Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan, cricket stars Sachin Tendulkar and MS Dhoni, and also as tycoon Gautam Adani is among the personalities invited to the celebrations.

Disney director Robert Iger is also among the guests. An agreement between Reliance Industries and Walt Disney to merge their Indian media was announced on Wednesday.

The merger would create an $8.5 billion entertainment giant in the world’s most populous country and the world’s fifth-largest economy.