The story of Sahara India Pariwar founder Subrata Roy, who died in Mumbai on November 14 aged 75, is the stuff of movies - of a spectacular rise and an equally spectacular fall.
Born in Araria, Bihar, Roy was 30 when he set up Sahara in 1978.
He started with a capital of about Rs 2,000, a peon, a clerk and his father s Lambretta scooter in Gorakhpur, eastern Uttar Pradesh, writes Tamal Bandyopadhyay in his 2014 book, Sahara: The Untold Story.
Sahara was not his first venture.