Published on: 11/4/2015IST

34 Bollywood Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Using A Stage Name

User Image Anuj Tiwari Last updated on: 11/4/2015, Permalink

Ever thought whether Amitabh Bachchan would have had the same persona if he wasn't called "Amitabh Bachchan"? Or how would you like it if you got to know that Preity Zinta's real name was something else? While they say "what's in a name", we say the name is the window to a celebrity's fame! But there are several actors in Bollywood who haven't shied away from putting their names at stake, quite literally! So while some changed their real names to suit modern times, others tried it for numerological reasons.

The general belief holds that a person has much attachment to his or her name. But when it is about Bollywood calling, this list of actors went against the notion and dropped their original names to fit well into the showbiz.

#1

amitabh bachchan

#2

kamal hassan

#3

dev anand

#4

tabu

#5

guru dutt

#6

mithun chakraborty

#7

raj kumar

#8

preity zinta

#9

rajinikanth

#10

nana patekar

#11

rekha

#12

johnny lever

#13

nargis

#14

jeetendra

#15

shammi kapoor

#16

john abraham

#17

ashok kumar

#18

jaya prada

#19

chunky pandey

#20

govinda

#21

johnny walker

#22

rajesh khanna

#23

madhubala

#24

akshay kumar

#25

katrina

#26

hrithik roshan

#27

danny denzongpa

#28

sanjeev kumar

#29

ajay devgan

#30

shilpa shetty

#31

salman khan

#32

reena roy

#33

jackie shroff

#34

sunny leone


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