Hong Kong, March 18 -- He is the man behind the Indian media conglomerate Sun Group. Apart from being the chairman and founder of the media giant, he is also the owner of the IPL Team SunRisers Hyderabad. Meet Kalanithi Maran - the Indian billionaire media mogul who is one of the highest-paid business executives in India with a whopping net worth. According to Forbes list of Indian billionaires, the SunRisers Hyderabad owner stands at No. 82 with a whopping net worth of USD 2.85 billion (INR 23,633 crore approx.).

It all started in 1990 when Kalanithi Maran started a monthly magazine in Tamil called

However, the magazine stopped its production in 1992 due to piracy, which is when the Sun TV was established. Maran launched the Television...