KALANIDHI MARAN

Kalanidhi Maran is the Chairman and Managing Director of

Sun Network which is the most profitable television

network in Asia. In June 2010, He

acquired Spice

Jet which is the

most

profitable airlines

in India.

His television channels and newspapers are primarily concentrated in South India and FM radio stations, DTH service, Airlines are spread across the country.

Schooling at  Don Bosco , Egmore Chennai.

In Loyola College ,Chennai he became student’s union chairman and led an agitation on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue .

Received MBA from the University of Scranton

Worked for Kungumam Tamil Magazine owned by his family in the late 1980s.

In 1990 he started a monthly video (VHS) news magazine in Tamil called Poomaalai which was stopped in 1992 due to piracy.

He Founded SunTV on April 14, 1993 with an investment of 86000 US$ from Bank loan.

Early life…

ACHIEVEMENTS

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.

BUSINESS ENTITIES Tv channels

Spice jet

Fm radio

Print media

Sun pictures

Tv CHANNELS SunTv

Ktv Sun music

Chutti Tv

Adithya

Sun news

Telungu channels

Gemini Tv

Gemini movies

Gemini news Gemini music

Gemini comedy

Kushi Tv

Malayalam Channels

Surya Tv Kiran tv

Kannada Channels

Chintu tv

Udaya varthegalu

Udaya 2

Udaya movies

Udaya tv

Fm radio

SUN DIRECT DTH

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

• 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

The latest films includes Theeradha Vilaiyattu

Pillai Sura Singam Thillalangadi Enthiran Mappillai

•Kunkumam• Tamil Murasu•Dinakaran

Print media

• 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

Family

• He married Kaveri a Kannadiga in 1991 and has a daughter named Kavya. His wife is the Joint Managing Director of Sun network.

• 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.

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