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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

