In 2022, Dilip Shanghvi will rank ninth among the richest people in the nation with having $16.3 billion.
With just $200 in 1983, handed to him by his father, he set off to launch Sun Pharma, which then produced mental medications.
With an annual sale of $4.5 billion, the company is currently among the top providers of pharmaceutical supplies in the country.
Sun Pharma expanded through a number of pharmaceutical acquisitions, the most noteworthy of which being the $4 billion acquisition of Ranbaxy Laboratories in 2014.
Shanghvi has recently made investments in both oil and gas as well as renewable energy to expand his business empire.