NOT Johar or Chopra: Meet India's richest filmmaker worth ₹33,000 Cr

Kalanithi Maran, the chairman and founder of Sun Group, is the wealthiest filmmaker in India. With a net worth of Rs 33,400 crore, Maran is the 80th richest individual in India according to the Hurun India Rich List for 2024. Maran produces movies under the Sun Pictures label. Compared to Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, and other Bollywood icons, he is far wealthier. This is all the information you require about him.

On July 24, 1964, in Chennai, Kalanithi Maran was born to the late politician Murasoli Maran and Mallika Maran. He attended Don Bosco School in Chennai and graduated from Loyola College in the same city. Maran attended the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania to get an MBA degree. Prior to establishing Sun TV in 1993, Kalanithi began a monthly Tamil magazine called Poomaalai in 1990. One of the biggest media conglomerates in India, Sun Group, was once the entertainment channel. Maran is the chairman of the Chennai-based corporation.

India's richest filmmaker Kalanithi Maran biography:

Kalanithi Maran's net worth is reported to be Rs 33,400 crore by the 2024 Hurun India Rich List. He is India's eightieth richest person. Despite experiencing a 34% rise in wealth from the previous year, his ranking has declined. Last year, the businessman ranked as the 75th richest Indian. The Bollywood celebrities' net worth pales in comparison to Kalanithi Maran's. Shah Rukh Khan has an estimated net worth of Rs 7300 crore according to the 2024 Hurun India Rich List. The combined net worth of Amitabh Bachchan and his family is Rs 1600 crore. With a net worth of Rs 1400 crore, Karan Johar is the richest director in Bollywood.

In addition to two daily newspapers, five magazines, an OTT platform called Sun NXT, a DTH satellite service called Sun Direct, two cricket teams—Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League and Sunrisers Eastern Cape in the South African T20 League—and a film production company called Sun Pictures, Kalanithi Maran's Sun Group owns over thirty TV channels in India.

In 2010, Sun Pictures began to produce motion pictures. The production company has funded some of the biggest blockbusters in the past 14 years, including Dhanush's Thiruchitrambalam and Raayan, Thalapathy Vijay's Beast and Sarkar, and Rajinikanth's Enthiran, Petta, and Jailer.

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