27 Bollywood Celebrities Who Changed Their Names - Awe Secrets
Do you know the real name of Bollywood Celebrities who changed their names?
What pops in your head when you hear the name ‘Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia’? Certainly not a celebrity name, Right? ‘Rajiv’ name is so common across Nepal and India, and hold on, No! it’s not the name of three persons but one. To a greater degree, you know this person very well and he is currently one of Bollywood’s celebrated actors. The iconic contemporary Bollywood celebrity. Any Guesses? Let’s break the ice here, he is none other than ‘Akshay Kumar’ aka Khiladi of Bollywood.
Bollywood celebrities who changed their names are probably the most iconic and widely followed artists not only in India but across South Asia resulting in a pool of huge fan bases. Most of you have smiled, laughed like crazy, cried, been influenced, and got along in an adventure or a journey by watching and following such celebrities since childhood.
Also, some of you must have the memory of adopting a legacy from your brothers and sisters that if they are the fan of say Salman Khan, they would influence you to become one. Poor thing you didn’t have much choice, did you?
But there is a twist here. What if the name you commonly heard since childhood is just another name for the celebrities to identify themselves in the public arena? Well! it might not make much of a difference but it’s fun to know that the celebrities you follow live their life being identified with different name-their own real names.
Thus, we have come with the lists of Bollywood celebrities who changed their original name and became popular with their alternative name as a public person or a celebrity. So without further delay, let’s get a sneak peek at those mysterious names hidden inside.
List of Bollywood Celebrities Who Changed Their Names
1. Madhubala – Began Mumtaz Jehan Dehlavi
2. Dev Anand – Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand
3. Amitabh Bachchan – Inquilaab Srivastava
4. Rekha – Bhanurekha Ganesan
5. Dharmendra – Dharam Singh Deol
6. Mithun Chakraborty – Gourango Chakraborty
7. Sridevi – Sri Amma Yanger Ayyapan
8. Rajnikanth – Shivaji Rao Gaekwad
9. Jackie Shroff – Jai Kishan Kakubhai Shroff
10. Sunny Deol – Ajay Singh Deol
11. Govinda – Govinda Arun Ahuja
12. Salman Khan – Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan
13. Tabu – Tabassum Hashmi Khan
14. Saif Ali Khan – Sajid Ali Khan
15. Akshay Kumar – Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia
16. Ajay Devgan – Vishal Devgan
17. Preity Zinta – Preetam Singh Zinta
18. Shilpa Shetty – Ashwini Shetty
19. Hrithik Roshan – Hrithik Rakesh Nagrath
20. Prabhas – Venkata Satyanarayana Prabhas Raju Uppalapati
21. John Abraham – Farahan Abraham
22. Katrina Kaif – Katrina Turquotte
23. Anushka Shetty – Sweety Shetty
24. Ranveer Singh – Ranveer Singh Bhavnani
25. Sunny Leone – Karenjit Kaur Vohra
26. Tiger Shroff – Jai Hemant Shroff
27. Kiara Advani – Aaliya Advani
Hence, these are the Bollywood Celebrities who changed their names. Now, for whatever reason, the artists changed their name for-its for the best because some of the names took a hell of a toll just to pronounce. Anyway, the names that the celebrities took above are so strongly inscribed in our subconscious that knowing their real name just becomes secondary information.
The point is though you know the name Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia is Akshay Kumar’s real name, can you associate the real name and picture the person in your head? Difficult is an understatement here.
So one might ask, what’s the point of knowing the real name? It is crucial because most of the public associate with the celebrities in one dimension-that is with their public persona, but to a greater degree, it is important to know they too have their personal life and most of it is more relatable with common people like us rather than the public persona they carry. And knowing the real name of my friend helps us dig out that common persona hidden in the shades of a public figure which in fact is more relatable and in a way lets us know a more humane side of the celebrity we follow.
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