Mukesh Ambani shares how he proposed marriage to Nita Ambani in a Mumbai traffic jam. Watch

Mukesh and Nita Ambani got married in 1985 after courting for three weeks. (Image credit: AFP)

Mukesh Ambani was visibly emotional when his youngest son Anant Ambani and his fiance Radhika Merchant thanked him and his wife for championing their relationship, during a speech at the pre-wedding festivities held earlier this month. Now, a video of an old interview with celebrity host Simi Garewal has put the spotlight on his relationship with his wife Nita Ambani (née Dalal).

In the interview, the Reliance Industries chairman revealed that he proposed marriage to her while stuck in a traffic jam on Mumbai's Pedder Road. The couple had been courting for three weeks and in a moment of epiphany, Mukesh Ambani said, he realised she was the one for him.

"Nita was really the first girl I had seen," the industrialist told Garewal. "I had pretty much made up my mind that this is it, this is my life partner. So once when we were driving down Peddar Road, it occurred to me out of the blue and I said, 'Nita, will you marry me? Just say yes or no now.'"

Nita Ambani said she hesitated and asked him to drive because they were worsening the traffic jam. "People were shouting and cars were blowing horns and I said 'Mukesh, move on.' And he said, 'Tell me yes or no. I shall not move the car.'"

Mukesh Ambani had to ask her for a third time before she finally accepted his proposal.

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Later Nita Ambani asked her to-be-husband, what he would have done if she had rejected his offer. "'Would you have asked me to get out of the car then and there and driven off?'" Mukesh Ambani recollected her as saying. "I said, 'No, I would have dropped you off home and we would have remained friends.'"

The couple got married in 1985 and have three children: Akash, Isha, and Anant. While Akash and Isha are married and have their own kids, Anant Ambani's marriage to Radhika Merchant is scheduled for July this year.

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