New Delhi:
Movie Magnet and Entrepreneur Ronnie Screwval secured a place Forbes List of billionaires of the world. On Wednesday (April 2), the magazine unveiled a new list of 3,028 billionaires for this year.
Producer of films like Ronnie Screwal, Jodha Akbar, Fashion, Delhi Bailey and Barfi Among other people, Hindi is the only person in the world of cinema, which has more than one billion dollars. According to the Forbes list, the entrepreneur’s total assets are $ 1.5 billion (112.5 billion).
It makes Ronnie Screwval rich in compared to three Bollywood superstars – Shah Rukh Khan ($ 770 million), Salman Khan ($ 390 million) and Aamir Khan ($ 220 million), which is $ 1.38 billion.
Born in Mumbai, Ronnie Screwval stopped its entrepreneurial journey by a toothbrush in the 1970s. The 68 -year -old also holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Mumbai.
In 1990, Ronnie Screwval launched the UTV, which was later named the UTV Motion Pictures. The company produced iconic films over the next 2 decades. Some of them were Shrubs, Rang de Basanti, Khosla’s Ghosla, Jodha Akbar, Fashion, Delhi Bailey And Barfi,
There were TV shows produced by UTV Motion Pictures Peace, hip hip hurre, shaka laka boom boom, khichdi And prank,
In 2012, he sold a share of more than $ 450 million to Walt Disney Company in UTV and ran India unit as a managing director, Forbes,
Ronnie Screwal is also a co-founder and president of the Mumbai-based Edtech firm upgrade.
Recently, Ronnie Screwval opened the importance of theater and how it shaped their path. He told times of India“Some people play. I think I was blessed to bow down to the theater. And I think the theater taught me everything that I wanted to know today, which is a feeling of soft skills, cooperation, participation and confidence.”
Pointing to the youth of India and their aspirations today, he said, “They are wired in a very different way. Their curiosity and their curiosities are at a different level. I think the biggest challenge here is a feeling of hope of the youth. And I think if we disappoint them, we are disappointing ourselves as a society.”
Ronnie Screwval and his wife Zarina founded the non -profit Swads Foundation, which focuses on rural upliftment projects.
