Tina Ambani vs. Nita Ambani: The Poles Apart Daughters-in-Law

Amit Tondon
3 min readDec 27, 2019

There’s an adage that says that all the elegance is in the mind; and if you have got that, the rest in life follows. But there’s one stratum of people who are born with elegance, and there’s this other sect of people who create an illusion of it. The case of Tina Ambani and Nita Ambani respectively does not fall an exception to this rule. Today, these are the women who are behind the most dynamic business tycoons Mukesh and Anil Ambani. However, the similarity starts and ends with the letters of the names of both leading ladies of the family share.

The younger daughter-in-law shot to fame as Tina Munim, the Gujarati chic who became a household name with her perennial hits. She came a long way right from starring in Dev Anand’s flick Des Pardes to being the chairperson of Kokmilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital. And somehow, she seemed to be a cut above the rest be it from her charity art shows, to her work for the senior citizens and now steering the operations at the hospital.

On the other hand, Nita Ambani, only tasted fame after she was wedded to Mukesh Ambani. So while Tina was already a celebrity, Nita, came from a middle-class family and was a primary school teacher who reached the shores of limelight years after her marriage to Mukesh. As a matter of fact, Tina gave up her independent life and moved in with her in-laws anjd Kokilaben till date has a distinguished fondness for her. But then Tina right after her marriage to Anil started off her art projects and opened up avenues for budding artists. Whereas, Nita only ventured into her work-life post Dhirubhai’s demise. Till then her role was limited to attending to guests at home and Reliance AGMs.

What’s really interesting about Tina is that she prides herself in being just another working woman in the city. She says, “I have no hang-ups. I have a very normal busy life and we have 130 doctors that I interact with.” Today, her role has scaled up to the national level as it sees the completion of its 10 years. The hospital project came to her by chance and she built it from the scratch right from its construction to building its potent team so that it meets the international standards for healthcare. 15. Under her stewardship, it is the only hospital in Mumbai to receive accreditation from the JCI (Joint Commission International, USA), NABH (National Accreditation Board for Healthcare, India), CAP (College of American Pathologists, USA) and NABL (National Accreditation Board for Laboratories, India). Recently, raising the bar for healthcare efforts she spearheaded the opening of 3 new cancer centres in Maharashtra, in the cities of Akola, Gondia and Solapur.

Nita, on the other end, is more inclined towards accomplishing chiselled looks, flamboyance with social events and hosting events with unprecedented grandeur. For instance, the weddings of her twins Akash and Isha formed to be the most extravagant highlights of the year 2018. The long list of high-profile guests, the exuberant décor themes, and the innumerable wedding outfits, the pictures of them had got the social media on fire. All about her looks, family watchers say Nita has been through discreet backchannel coaching, grooming and finishing sessions by the best in the business, weight-reduction programmes, and numerous photo-shoots during which she picked up the “best angles” to show the camera.

It is through her these grooming sessions that she got her today’s new distinctly new personality. And then how can we forget Nita’s grand merrymakings for the IPL wins. Her advent into IPL per se

On the other hand, Tinastays comfortable in her skin, tied-up working perennially for the set-up of the remaining 15 centres across Maharashtra. This goal, she aims to accomplish till 2022. Surely, these traits set the two Ambani daughters-in-law poles apart.

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