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up the bank?              In the year 2010, we got a   Is it going to be a mainstream   Dhanam who is my partner
             At the bank, we used to get   request to handle A.R.   movie or an Indian one?  in this. He is a motivational
             a lot of requests for loans   Rehman’s “Jai Ho” World   It is going to be a main-  speaker who speaks to
             for a variety of businesses.   Tour in. I got a request   stream movie. It is a story   crowds of 20 - 25,000
             I started getting proficient   saying, “Why don’t you   that happened 20 years   people. He shares stages
             at the inner workings of a   promote the show in    ago in India. It is called “The   with the Bush Family and
             bank-to know how it       Dallas?” That’s what we   Least of These”. It is a story   high powered individuals.
             works. That is how I came                           that shook the whole
             across a property here on   did.  We put on an enter-  world. We got the rights for   Do  you  do  any  charity
             Mockingbird. I got a good   tainment show at the    it and the movie is ready.   events?
             deal on a good property   America Airlines Center. It   Sharman Joshi from 3
             and I didn’t know what to   was a crowd of 14,000   Idiots, is one of the main   The Captain P.S. Abraham
             do with it. So we decided to   people, all South Asian.   stars from Bollywood and   Parkinson’s Foundation will
             build a hotel. That is how                          from here, Steven Baldwin,   be our entry into the
             we started, SkyPass       That was when A.R.        one of the Baldwin          non-profit world. I lost my
             Hospitality. We have a    Rehman came to fame       brothers, is also going to be   father in 2014 to Parkin-
             Dallas Love Field, La Quinta   because of his Oscar for the   starring in the film.
             Hotel: 102 rooms. It was   film Slumdog Millionaire.                            son’s. Parkinson’s disease
             really difficult because   They had a touring group of   What  other  avenues  have   is a lack of dopamine to the
             traditionally, the Patels are   175 performers and team                         left brain and the body’s
             the major shareholders in                           you gone into?              motor skills begin to suffer.
             the US. We had a really   members from both the     And now we have the         Back in India, it was not
             tough time where custom-  West and the East. There   Cruise Ship Center which is
             er service is concerned and   hasn’t been such a show   a tie-up with Expedia. Then   that well researched and
             the complaints would      since then and we had the   we have  SkyLife Success   around 2010-11 my father
             always come in. But, after   privilege of doing it for   which is an educational
             close to a year, we turned   them. That is how we   seminar company that        had about but the doctors
             out to be one of the top 10   started Skypass Entertain-  trains all top executives all   thought that he had
             hotels on Trip Advisor out                          across major companies      epilepsy and started the
             of 184 in Dallas.         ment Which led to our     like PepsiCo, American
                                       most recent project a     Airlines, the United States   treatment. He went from
             Can you tell us about SkyPass  full-length motion picture.                      bad to worse and I had to
             Entertainment?                                      Army etc. We have Krish
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