Here Is What These Bollywood Celebrities Would Be Called Had They Not Been Celebrities

Same goes with this actor who has a rather long name. Had he not been the grandson of legendary singer Mukesh, this exceptionally fair guy would be called Neil Mathur.

Call it her luck or her family’s condition that she became a Bollywood actress, but had she been in any other profession, chances are that she would carry her original name, which is Bhanurekha Ganesan.

Did you know that Akshay Kumar was named Rajiv Bhatia, but decided to debut with the name Akshay, because this was the name of the lead character of the movie Aaj, with which Akshay got his first few seconds of the silver screen?

Had he not been a Bollywood actor, and more than that, the grandson of a famous Bollywood music composer Roshan, this Greek God would be called Hrithik Nagrath, his family’s surname.

When the jumping jack Jeetendra Kapoor made his screen debut, he decided to ditch his real name, Ravi Kapoor, to have a name that suited his personality more. He considering changing it to Ravindra Kapoor, but since there was already a Punjabi actor by that name, he chose Jeetendra.

When Subhash Ghai spotted and decided to launch VJ Ritu Chaudhary, he suggested her to keep a name starting with the letter M, as he was superstitious about the success of actresses whose names started with M; Madhuri Dixit, Manisha Koirala and Meenakshi Sheshadri being some examples.