New Delhi: Orchids flown in from the Netherlands, a wedding parade with white horses, camels, elephants and a banquet with 80 dishes prepared by 50 chefs ended the Liz-Nayar’s wedding extravaganza on Friday, reports The Daily Mail.
Of course, a few extra noughts here and there must be small change for Arun Nayar, a man with a bank balance the size of Mumbai. Or so media have been led to believe.
Arun Nayar, who runs a supposedly booming software company in India, is a name that has become synonymous with money. Those who have read about his jet-set lifestyle, wouldn't doubt it for a moment.
However, the picture, which emerges in his native Mumbai is rather less flattering.
Arun Nayar is not listed in the Forbes List of Indian millionaires, and it was rather summed up by a recent editorial in The Bombay Times asking readers if they thought Nayar, 43, should call himself Arun Hurley after the wedding. A majority thought he should.
"No one has heard of his business in India," The Daily Mail quotes editor Mark Manuel. "He is not known as a businessman. His claim to fame is marrying a British celebrity."
Before the most extravagant nuptials in living memory got underway at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire last week, his own mother told a friend: "I can only say that Arun is not such a rich tycoon as the Press is making him out to be."
Rumours are abuzz that Hurley paid for much of the celebrations. In fact, it seems, Arun has been "subsidised" by his wealthy parents, who have extensive interests in the textile industry, for most of his adult life.
So it is Miss Hurley, not her husband, who is the "self-made millionaire" in this marriage - worth an estimated £ 13 million.
Indeed, by common consent, Arun Nayar's main "claim to fame" in Mumbai, throughout his 20s and 30s, was womanising and partying.
"He was very promiscuous," said someone who moved in the same circles. In between the sex and champagne, and a failed marriage to an Italian model, Nayar set up a software design company with his younger brother Nikhil.
Excerpts from The Daily Mail
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