19 Facts About Raj Kundra

Raj Kundra is a British-Indian businessman, who was ranked as the 198th richest British Asian by Success.

Raj Kundra's father, Bal Krishan Kundra was a middle-class businessman and his mother Usha Rani Kundra was a shop assistant when he was a child.

Raj Kundra has been married to Shilpa Shetty, an Indian actress, since 2009.

Raj Kundra's parents were Punjabi Hindus who migrated from Raipur, Punjab, India.

At the age of 18, Raj Kundra relocated to Dubai and later Nepal and started a business selling pashmina shawls to fashion retailers in Britain and made his first millions.

Raj Kundra was at that time involved in the financing and production of Bollywood films.

Raj Kundra has been married twice, first to Kavita Raj Kundra, with whom he had a daughter.

On 22 November 2009 Raj Kundra married Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty.

Raj Kundra and Shetty have a son, born on 21 May 2012, and a daughter, born through surrogacy on 15 February 2020.

Raj Kundra is involved with his wife's charitable organisation, the Shilpa Shetty Foundation.

Raj Kundra's book titled, How Not to Make Money was published in 2013.

In 2015, Raj Kundra was among the promoters of online and television broadcast platform Best Deal TV, an Indian television home shopping channel capitalising on celebrity endorsements.

Under the government of India's Startup India initiative, Raj Kundra is set to launch India's first live streaming social media app, Jaldi Live Stream App which will allow professional as well as amateur streamers to live stream their content.

In June 2013, Kundra was questioned by Delhi Police with regard to the 2013 Indian Premier League spot-fixing case, which had involved the arrest of some Rajasthan Royals players, further Delhi police have given a clean chit to Kundra in reply on right to information.

Further, Raj Kundra denied the involvement and appeal to the Supreme Court of India.

Umesh Goenka, a business partner of Raj Kundra claimed in a court that he was forced to implicate Kundra in betting by Delhi Police and to save himself from physical torture and from being charged under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act.

Raj Kundra was awarded the Champions of Change Award in 2019, for his involvement with Swachh Bharat Mission.

Raj Kundra was arrested in July 2021 on charges of producing pornographic content, which is an illegal offence in the country.

Raj Kundra was booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, the Information Technology Act and the Indecent Representation of Women Later, he was granted bail in September 2021 by a metropolitan magistrate's court.