Ramesh Babu is a Bangalore-based barber who gives customers a haircut for a modest â¹100 but owns a Rolls Royce Ghost worth â¹ 3 crore, and 67 other cars.
When his father died in 1979, Ramesh, a nine year-old boy, was literally on the streets. The barber shop his father ran on Brigade Road’s St Patrick’s Complex was rented out for â¹ 5 per day. Ramesh’s family survived on that money. Babu was nine when his father died in 1979, leaving the family with nothing.
To make ends meet, they rented out his father’s saloon on Brigade Road for a mere â¹5 per day. Forced to get a fulltime job, Babu dropped out of school after Class 10 and started working as a barber. The career choice paid off better than he could have imagined.
In 1991, he started his own salon, Inner Space, which gained popularity among the city’s trendy bunch. But the turnaround happened in 1994, when Babu purchased a humble Maruti Omni van and started renting it out. Seventeen years later, his car collection is anything but humble.
Apart from the Rolls Royce, his fleet includes four Mercedes, an equal number of BMWs and 50 Toyota Innovas
