Streets of Gold: Mumbai

Everyone is out to make a fast buck as wedding fever takes hold in the city that never sleeps. From Asia's biggest slum to beach parties on the seafront to the grandest of events at the illustrious Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, the hustle is on. It's breakfast time in the house of one of India's most famous entrepreneurs, Anupam Mittal, an investor on Shark Tank, India's equivalent of Dragon's Den. Each episode is watched by around 75 million people, and its success represents a new can-do, market-minded India. Anupam made his fortune in the 90s dotcom boom, and as the self-styled king of bling, his success embodies the dreams of millions of young Indians. One of his fans is 30-year-old Nikhil Tikam, whose textile business makes products that are shipped all over the world. Nikhil's business is part of a thriving economy in the Dharavi district in central Mumbai, Asia's biggest slum, worth an estimated billion dollars a year and home to tens of thousands of entrepreneurs. Nikhil's home is 25 minutes away in Worli Village. He is about to get married to girlfriend, Prarthana, who works in her family catering business. Nikhil's will be one of around ten million weddings taking place in India this year, and the weddings industry is the fourth biggest in the country. Five miles away at the world famous Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in South Mumbai, Paloma Shah is in charge of planning the latest wedding at the venue complete with elaborate mandap, or wedding altar, which is bending under the weight of the flowers. The bar for luxury weddings was set in 2018 by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, who spent a rumoured $100m dollars on his daughter's. Beyoncé was their wedding singer.