Bad Boy Billionaires: India
Docuseries – 3 Episodes
Bad Boy Billionaires: India is a investigative docuseries exploring the greed, fraud and corruption of India’s most infamous tycoons.
Though prefix Bad Boy was added to these Billionaires but they started as a Good Boy with a good intention and very visionaries in their approach to create something big, but somewhere lost track of the original plan and greed took over.
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Bad Boy Billionaires is a three part series talking about three individuals, featuring liquor baron Vijay Mallya, diamantaire Nirav Modi and chit fund kingpin Subrata Roy, showcasing their rise and fall.
Vijay Mallya: Liquor baron Vijay Mallya took over his father’s empire and made it even bigger. Ambitious and bold approach made him the King of Good Times. With everything going good and hungry to make his brand more grand and fly, he visioned to create a low cost air carrier – Kingfisher Airlines so a common man can also fly, but after it’s initial success, bad decisions made it worse, led to increase the debt and it crossed a mark which was very hard to level, salaries was not paid, no operation fund and finally it was grounded for ever, but on other hand he was celebrating his 60th birthday with same old grand fashion as King of good times. As shown, he subsequently fled to London to hide from creditors.
Nirav Modi: Considered as a God for his employees, visioned to make a global jewellery brand from India and with his unique, creative and beautiful design Nirav Modi made a Global brand endorsed by who’s who, but greed and corruption spoiled the game. Now is a fugitive Indian businessman, wanted by the Interpol and the Government of India for criminal conspiracy.
Subrata Roy: Known as Sahara Shri, a rag to rich story, coming from humble background, visioned to create a saving culture for poor families which will help them on their future financial needs, initially it started as you invest as small as Rs 5-10 daily and after few years you will get a good return, it was a success and at one point of time Sahara group was termed by Time magazine as ‘the second largest employer in India’ after Indian Railways”, for lot of people he was a Robinhood, people got their daughter married with help of Sahara, they were even able to help their children to further studies and more success and emotional stories, people used to trust him more than banks, a brand which every Indian came across at some point of time, out of which one was very evident is on Indian Jersey you can recall for but house of cards started failing when Government agencies got involved. But Sahara Shri denies any wrong doing!
Why to watch
- Started as Good Boys but greed took over
- Visionaries ideas
- Learning for Entrepreneurs
- Greed, fraud and corruption
- Indian banking system
- True stories
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