The Shapoorji Pallonji Group is one of India's leading industrial conglomerate and a major construction company.
He is a Parsi whose ancestors are believed to have migrated to Mumbai from Vesu, Gujarat (near Surat).
[2] Shapoorji Mistry's family follows the traditional Parsi practice of repeating first names in subsequent generations.
[3] Shapoor ji had a great love and admiration for Emperor Akbar, otherwise he had no interest in film making.
Upon learning that Karimuddin Asif was making a film on Akbar and the Mughals, which was earlier being financed by Shiraz Ali, his friend and business partner, who left India post partition in 1947.