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Homeschooled by her friends' parents, trained eight years in Kathak, told once she was too fat for a film — and then, in 2018, the first Indian actress ever nominated for an International Emmy.
She spent three years behind the camera as an assistant director to Luv Ranjan and Sanjay Leela Bhansali before she ever stood in front of one. Then: a Filmfare debut award, Munjya's sleeper hit, and the YRF Spy Universe.
Rejected twice from Sa Re Ga Ma Pa as a child, spotted singing at Kala Ghoda, cast as young Shah Rukh Khan — and then nominated for a BAFTA for The White Tiger. Adarsh Gourav's route was nobody's plan.
Daughter of two actors who trained as a competitive swimmer, went to Harvard summer school to learn directing, and then became one of the most dependable leads in Indian streaming — Mirzapur, Guilty Minds, Taaza Khabar.
He started with a toothbrush factory, pioneered cable television in India, built UTV into a media group he sold to Disney for $1.4 billion — and then went and built an edtech company, a sports league and a film studio.
He co-founded Infosys in 1981, ran it as CEO while revenue grew sixfold, then left in 2009 to build an identity system for a billion people. In 2026 the government asked him to fix India's exams.
For three years he traded shares by day and worked night shifts at a call centre to fund it. The brokerage he later built with his brother took no outside money at all — and now does ₹8,847 crore a year, wholly owned by the family.
A bad experience with a matrimonial consultant in 1997 turned into Sagai.com, then Shaadi.com. Twenty-eight years later he has backed over 250 startups, chaired India's internet industry body, and acted in two Bollywood films.
Two engineers from Lucknow spent eight years building the ingredients that go inside other people's products — sweeteners, yeast proteins, fibres. In July 2026 they raised ₹230 crore to scale it.
Frontier AI labs need expert humans to grade, correct and stress-test their models. Deccan AI, founded in 2023, built a network of over a million contributors — students, domain experts and PhDs — largely in India, and sells that work to Google DeepMind and Snowflake.
The man who built India's largest data centre company did it again, for AI. Founded in 2023, Neysa now runs 20,000+ GPUs across Mumbai and Hyderabad — close to 30% of India's high-end AI compute — backed by a Blackstone-led raise of up to $1.2 billion.
Two engineers in Bengaluru got tired of rebuilding the same plumbing for every AI app, so they built it once and sold it to everyone. Three years and $18 million later, Palo Alto Networks bought the company.
India's largest public relations firm — founded in Mumbai in 1997 by Rajesh Chaturvedi and Madan Bahal, now around 1,400 people, 700+ retained clients and 16 offices across India, plus Sri Lanka and Singapore.
