Karam’s side of the family is effectively asking for what was once unthinkable - the group’s assets to be broken up. His grandfather, SP - as the 85-year-old is known, now suffers from a form of dementia, and Karam, his sister, mother, aunt and grandmother are locked in a battle with the rest of the Hinduja family over pieces of the Rs 1.34 lakh crore ($18 billion) British-Indian group. Read more: Mukesh Ambani looks to Walton family playbook on succession
And unlike most of the tearjerkers they watched, this one may not have a happy ending. Little did he know then that a quarter century later the two of them would be embroiled in a real-life family drama more gripping than any Bollywood plot. “He and I, without fail, once a week, whatever was new, whether it was good or bad,” Karam said in a recent interview in Geneva. As a child in London, one of Karam Hinduja’s favorite pastimes was watching Bollywood movies with his grandfather Srichand Hinduja, the patriarch of a sprawling global business empire.
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