Ritu Nanda

Ritu Nanda (née Kapoor; born 30 October 1948) is a prominent insurance advisor associated chiefly with the life insurance business. She is currently the chairwoman and chief executive officer of Ritu Nanda Insurance Services (RNIS). Nanda was initially managing a household appliances manufacturing business Nikitasha which got closed due to poor growth. On recommendation of her friend, she decided to be an insurance agent.^[1] She has more than 55,000 clients, and is the recipient of the Brand and the Best Insurance Advisor of the Decade awards from the Life Insurance Corporation of India, the largest life insurance company of India.

Nanda entered the Guinness Book of Records for selling 17,000 pension policies in a single day. She also manages companies like Escolife and Rimari Corporate art services.

Nanda is the daughter of actor-director Raj Kapoor and his wife, Krishna. She was born in Mumbai on 30 October 1948. Her grandfather was actor Prithviraj Kapoor, and maternal uncles are actors Prem Nath and Rajendra Nath. Actor Prem Chopra is her uncle-by-marriage (Krishna's sister Uma's husband). Her brothers, Randhir Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor and Rajiv Kapoor, are film actors. She also has a sister, Rima Jain, whose son, Armaan Jain, is also an actor. Actresses Neetu Singh and Babita Kapoor are her sisters-in-law. Noted film actresses Karisma Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor are her nieces, while actor Ranbir Kapoor is her nephew.

Nanda is married to Rajan Nanda, a distinguished industrialist of India. She has two children, a son Nikhil Nanda, and a daughter Natasha Nanda. Nikhil is married to veteran film actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bhaduri's daughter, Shweta Bachchan–and the couple has two children, son Agastya Nanda, and daughter Navya Naveli Nanda.

Nanda is a cancer survivor.^[2]

References

Further reading

• The Voyage To Excellence ( ISBN 81-223-0904-6) by Nichinta Amarnath, Debashish Ghosh and Amrita C Samaddar