At a time when people across India are closely watching falling stock market, weakening rupee and rising financial concerns Netflix’s new reality show ‘Desi Bling’ has started conversations online for showing extreme luxury and wealth, the show often being compared to Dubai Bling follows the lives of wealthy Indians living in Dubai who built successful businesses after moving there years ago.
One of the main faces of the show is businessman Satish Sanpal and his wife Tabinda Sanpal also known as Binda and the couple’s luxurious lifestyle has become one of the biggest talking points of the series as during the show Satish Sanpal says he moved to Dubai from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh with one million dirham which is around ₹2.6 crore in today’s value and later entered gold business and became successful and on the show he describes himself as “the billionaire in Dubai.”
The couple currently live inside Burj Khalifa which is world’s tallest building and much of the show focuses on their expensive lifestyle, luxury parties and collection of gold jewellery and in one episode Tabinda Sanpal says she owns around 40 kg of gold jewellery and also claims that her husband gifts her nearly 3 kg of gold every year. The show displays a room filled with gold jewellery and accessories with several mannequins covered in heavy gold items.
The couple also reveal that they bought gold cutlery for their daughter Isabella and according to show they even had a dress and jacket made from 24-carat gold for her first birthday celebration and another luxury item shown in series is a customised pink Rolls Royce reportedly purchased for their daughter and reports linked to the show claim the vehicle could be worth several crores of rupees.
Apart from luxury some personal moments shown in the series have also received attention online as in one scene Tabinda is seen massaging Satish’s feet while he talks about his belief that it brings prosperity and another scene shows the couple having an emotional conversation related to trust and relationship issues.
The show also features yacht parties and gatherings with friends ans in one episode Satish explains that he bought a yacht mainly to spend time partying with his male friends away from work and responsibilities and several party scenes with music and performers are shown throughout the series.
Following the release of Desi Bling, many viewers have become curious about Satish Sanpal’s background and business journey as he is the chairman of ANAX Holding and according to reports the company is valued at nearly $3 billion.
Satish Sanpal earlier shared that he left school after Class 8 and started a grocery business at age of 15 using ₹50,000 borrowed from his mother and the business reportedly failed later and then later he moved into stock market trading before eventually relocating to Dubai and entering the gold business, where he found success.
