Much like the first few residential apartment complexes that his father built in Mumbai of the 1940s, aptly given names like Acropolis and Heliopolis, it was Pallonji’s visionary zeal and aesthetic sensibilities led to the group’s rapid rise.
Mistry and his family control the Shapoorji Pallonji Group, which started more than 150 years ago and today employs more than 50,000 people in over 50 countries, according to its website.