19 Facts About Bollywood Stars That I Think About A Lot More Than I Should
Sumedha Bharpilania
3 min read
So Alia Bhatt is actually British?
1. His real name is Vishal Veeru Devgan. Ajay Devgn happens to be his professional name.
Clemens Bilan5. Hrithik Roshan’s actual surname is Nagrath. His grandfather, Roshan Lal Nagrath Mohan, also a music director, was popularly known by his first name. The Roshan family simply started using that as their surname in order to honour his legacy.
Chirag Wakaskar / WireImage6. Not many people know that Tara Sutaria is also a professional singer, and has been singing in operas and competitions since she was seven years old.
Prodip Guha / Getty Images7. Sidharth Malhotra actually had a teeny-tiny role as Jaichand in the 2009 television serial, Dharti Ka Veer Yodha Prithviraj Chauhan.
Sujit Jaiswal / AFP via Getty Images8. Parineeti Chopra technically started her career by scoring an internship in the marketing department of Yash Raj Films, in 2009. She was a public relations consultant.
Chirag Wakaskar / WireImage9. Priyanka Chopra Jonas actually has political roots. Her mother, Madhu Chopra, is the eldest daughter of Dr. Manohar Kishan Akhouri, a former Congress leader and Madhu Jyotsna Akhouri, who was previously a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly.
Gotham / Getty Images10. Before he became the Bollywood superstar that he is today, Akshay Kumar, or Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia, worked in a travel agency in Kolkata, as a chef in Dhaka, and as a jewellery salesman in Delhi.
Daniele Venturelli / Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival11. Shraddha Kapoor, Tiger Shroff, and Athiya Shetty were all schoolmates at the American School of Bombay and used to collectively participate in dance competitions.
Prodip Guha / Getty Images / SUJIT JAISWAL / AFP via Getty Images / Tim P. Whitby / Getty Images12. Alia Bhatt happens to be a British actress of Indian descent and holds a British passport. Her mother, Soni Razdan, is of British origin.
Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images13. Similarly, Barbara Shivdasani, the grandmother of Karishma Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor Khan, and Babita Kapoor’s mother, was British.
Sujit Jaiswal / AFP via Getty Images14. Kareena Kapoor Khan is named so because her mother read the book Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, while she was pregnant with her. She was initially named “Siddhima”.
The India Today Group / The India Today Group via Getty Images15. Apart from his fabulous acting chops, Rajkummar Rao also has a formal training in Taekwondo!
Hindustan Times / Hindustan Times via Getty Images16. Katrina Kaif won a beauty contest in Hawaii at the mere age of 14 and then went on to become a model.
Prodip Guha / Getty Images17. Prior to becoming a model and an actor, Taapsee Pannu worked as a software engineer. She actually holds a degree in Computer Science Engineering and has previously developed an app called “FontSwap”.
Sopa Images / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images18. Pankaj Tripathi initially worked as a chef at Patna’s Hotel Maurya where he once encountered his idol, Manoj Bajpayee. He decided to keep Bajpayee’s slipper, which the latter forgot in his room, as a souvenir.
Sopa Images / LightRocket via Getty Images19. Shahid Kapoor spent a lot of his formative years with his maternal grandparents, who happened to be journalists with the Russian magazine, Sputnik.
Anadolu Agency / Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesSince his parents Pankaj Kapur and Neelima Azeem porced when he was only three years old, and Azeem then married actor Rajesh Khattar, he lived with them until their porce in 2001. Owing to this fact, Shahid continues to use the surname “Khattar” in his passport.
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