KALANIDHI MARAN
- 2. Kalanidhi Maran is the Chairman and Managing Director of Sun Network which is the most profitable television network in Asia.
- 5. He is the 17th richest Indian with net worth of 4 Billion US$ (Rs 18000 Crores) . He is the highest paid business man in India. He has won Young Businessman awards from CNBC, ERNST & Young. Prestigious USA based Forbes magazine named him as "Television king of southern India". He was also among the few representatives at a roundtable with visiting U.S. President Bill Clinton Sun TV was listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange on April 24, 2006.
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- 12. Sun Direct is a DTH satellite television provider in India , using MPEG-4 Digital compression technology It is No 2 in South Asia with a customer base of 5.8 Million
- 14. • Sun Pictures is a film distribution and production studio unit of Chennai, based Sun Network owned by Kalanidhi Maran. It started its operation in 2008 starting with low budget movies and holds the credit of producing India's costliest film
- 15. The latest films includes Theeradha Vilaiyattu Pillai Sura Singam Thillalangadi Enthiran Mappillai
- 17. • He is the son of Former Union Minister of commerce Murasoli Maran, nephew of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi , and the brother of India's textile minister Dayandhi Maran
- 18. • He married Kaveri a Kannadiga in 1991 and has a daughter named Kavya. His wife is the Joint Managing Director of Sun network.
- 19. • He proved to be successful in spite of his father's political rivals ruling the state for most of the period since he entered the media business. He also emerged as No.1 in neighboring states where his competitors includes politicians and business men from those states.