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Smriti Irani’s claim of having a degree from the coveted Yale University has created quite a hullabaloo. Once again <keyword id="6419538" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Bollywood-celebrities">Bollywood celebrities</keyword> and their educational background are under scanner. While foreign universities are busy conferring our celebrated stars like <keyword id="6357912" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="amitabh-bachchan">Amitabh Bachchan</keyword> and <keyword id="1671" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Shah-Rukh-Khan">Shah Rukh Khan</keyword> with honours, here’s a look at their real qualifications… 
 
Amitabh Bachchan 
The mega star of Bollywood is one of the highly educated actors. He’s a graduate from Sherwood College, Nainital and then went to Delhi’s Kirori Mal College for doing a double major in Science and Arts. Not just that, the powerhouse of talent has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Queensland University in Australia. 
 
Shah Rukh Khan 
King Khan graduated in Economics from Delhi University’s Hansraj College and went on to do Master in Mass Communication from Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, which he didn’t complete. 
 
John Abraham 
A perfect example of brains and brawn, John Abraham completed his schooling from Bombay Scottish School, Mumbai and went on to do his graduation in economics from Jai Hind College. He also holds a Management Degree from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies. Before making it big in Bollywood he was a professional media planner. 
 
Salman Khan 
Star of the masses, Salman Khan went to Scindia School in Gwalior for some years before joining Mumai’s St.Stanislaus High School. He went to National College, Bandra but never completed it. 
 
Aamir Khan 
Mr Perfectionist that he is known as in the industry, Aamir was an average student in school. He went to Narsee Monjee College, Mumbai, but never attended classes as he was always hooked up to dramatics. 
 
Ranbir Kapoor 
Bollywood’s latest heartthrob, Ranbir Kapoor went to Bombay Scottish School in Mumbai. For his graduation he went to Mumbai’s HR College, which he quit after 2 years to pursue film-making and method acting at the School of Visual Arts and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, respectively. 
 
<keyword id="8145" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Preity-zinta">Preity Zinta</keyword> 
One of the highest educated actresses in Bollywood, Preity did her Bachelors in English Honours from St. Bede’s College in Shimla. You would be surprised to know that this bubbly beauty is also a graduate in psychology and post graduate in criminal psychology. 
 
Vidya Balan Another actress who put her <keyword id="6355445" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Education">education</keyword> before acting is Vidya Balan. The Dirty Picture actress is a graduate in sociology from St.Xavier’s College, Mumbai. 
 
Farhan Akhtar 
Multi-talented star Farhan Akhtar went to Manecji Kooper School in Mumbai and graduated in commerce from HR College, Mumbai. 
 
Hrithik Roshan 
Before turning into your fav superhero Krrish, Hrithik Roshan went to Bombay Scottish School. Post school, he went to Sydenham College, where he studied commerce. 
 
Karisma Kapoor 
A look at this poised and sophisticated actress and mommy today and you would never believe that she did her schooling only till sixth grade. Yes, Karishma Kapoor is a school dropout. She had studied at the Cathedral and John Cannon School. But then who needs school when your father is Randhir Kapoor and grand pa is legendary Raj Kapoor. 
 
Ameesha Patel 
She might have played a dumb secretary to Anil Kapoor in Race 2, but in real life Ameesha Patel was the head girl of Cathedral and John Cannon School. She went to US for a degree in Economics from Tuffs University at Medford. That’s not all. She also has a degree in bio genetic engineering from Boston University. 
 
Soha Ali Khan 
Yet another highly educated actress, Soha Ali Khan did her schooling from Delhi’s The British School and then went to Oxford to study geography. She also holds a degree in International Relations from London School of Economics and Political science.

How Educated Are The Bollywood Stars?

<ul><li><keyword id="143" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="bollywood" source="Orion">Bollywood</keyword> needs to take a leaf out of Hollywood’s script and focus on content and VFX.</li><li>Occupancy levels are still nowhere near pre-Covid levels as Bollywood number of films releasing are fewer and reliance on Big Budget films has increased.</li><li>Box office collections in Q2 will determine whether earnings of listed multiplex stocks will be upgraded or not. </li></ul> The pandemic is well and truly behind us but footfalls at movie theatres are still nowhere near pre-Covid levels. While the easiest explanation is that web series are giving tough competition to the moviemakers but that is not the entire story. In Bollywood parlance, “picture abhi baaki hai”. <keyword id="5672816" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="karan-taurani" source="Orion">Karan Taurani</keyword> of <keyword id="144995" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="elara-capital" source="Orion">Elara Capital</keyword> has a prescription for Bollywood if it wants to bring the audiences back to theatres so that occupancy levels revert to pre-Covid levels. No remakes, please, is the first big piece of advice he has for Bollywood. In a report, he says VFX-driven films, franchise- &amp; IP-based films) and original stories (no remake) would be the key solution for defining success of Hindi content toward pre-Covid levels. The formula that Hollywood is using is clearly working - IP and franchise-led films are the order of the day as they are innovating. One just needs to look at Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible franchise and the Top Gun sequel had industry pundits billing him as the saviour of Hollywood. Bollywood is taking steps in the same direction and Taurani cites the examples of Rocky Aur Rani (original story), <keyword id="1847504" type="General" weightage="60" keywordseo="gadar-2" source="Orion">Gadar 2</keyword> (franchise), OMG 2 (franchise) and <keyword id="6363925" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="jawan" source="Orion">Jawan</keyword> (original story). However, the key ingredient in all these movies is big star power. Like it or not, the ageing Khans, <keyword id="6354714" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="ajay-devgn" source="Orion">Ajay Devgn</keyword> and <keyword id="2823" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="akshay-kumar" source="Orion">Akshay Kumar</keyword> are not going anywhere near the sunset. Another problem is also that the pandemic has possibly affected the pipeline of movies hitting theatres. Prior to the pandemic, Bollywood saw 18 releases (FY19) every quarter which is now down to 14 films (FY23). This has also increased Bollywood’s dependence on big budget films like <keyword id="12756474" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="pathaan" source="Orion">Pathaan</keyword>. Adds Taurani, “These films doing well on a consistent basis will remain a key monitorable as they will command a large chunk of box office until we trend reverse into small and medium budget films or higher frequency therein.” While big may be beautiful, the risks are higher for these expensive films. Bollywood cannot afford to let them bomb, which also means that the films have to have good content not just star power. The jury will be out on listed multiplex stocks as the second quarter of the financial year, which started in July, will determine if the companies will see an earnings upgrade or not.

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