These Bollywood Celebrities are qualified engineers, MBAs and investment bankers!

The Rang De Basanti fame actor has earned his MBA degree from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai. He has been an all-rounder in his academic life, and took part in some international debate competitions.

The Bollywood hunk had no plans of being a model or actor, which is why he got an MBA from Mumbai Educational Trust. He briefly worked in advertising before becoming a model, and later, an actor and a producer.

The Dabangg star is surely one of the best-looking villains in Bollywood, but before his modeling career, he earned a graduate degree in electronics engineering from Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, Nagpur.

The National Award winning singer and music composer used to be a software engineer before making music his career. He is a degree holder in computer science and software engineering from Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, Mumbai. He used to work as a software engineer for Oracle.

The pretty lady might be the only person to have benefitted from the 2009 economic recession. She had plans to become an investment banker, for which she earned a triple honours degree in business, finance and economics from the prestigious Manchester Business School. However, because of the recession, she came back to India where she worked in the PR department of Yash Raj Films, only to bag her first role in Ishaqzaade later.

Nagarjuna, who is not only an actor but also a producer and television presenter, is an engineer by profession. He got his Bachelor of Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy, while for his master’s degree, he went off to the Eastern Michigan University and did his M.S. in Automobile Engineering.

This might be a name unheard, but his contribution to Bollywood in terms of his lyrics and creative writing can’t be unheard of. He is a civil engineer from IIT BHU and worked as a software engineer in Pune for some time. He has served as a writer for a number of films like Masaan, Ankhon Dekhi, and the Gangs of Wasseypur series.

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One of the finest actors of Bollywood, Menon earned his MBA from the Department of Management Sciences (PUMBA) at the University of Pune; his major was marketing.

Here is to the man who did one of the toughest courses, only to quit it later and become a film director. Shekhar Kapur became a Chartered Accountant at the tender age of 22, and that too with ICAEW in England.