Most of the Bollywood celebrities are filled with superstitious beliefs. And all this is because they want fame and name in the industry and for that, they will go off to the limits of even changing their names.
They will simply either put an extra alphabet in their name or change the whole name for good luck. Celebs have these crazy superstitious beliefs but for some of them it did work out good.
Let’s see which celebs changed their name for the success.
1. Amitabh Bachchan or Inquilab
Amitabh Bachchan’s birth name was ‘Inquilab’ but he changed it to Amitabh Bachchan which I think suits his personality.
2. Hrithik Roshan or Hrithik Nagrath
Hrithik Roshan was named ‘Hrithik Nagrath’ by his father Rakesh Roshan.
3. Shashi Kapoor or Balbir Raj Prithviraj Kapoor
Shashi Kapoor was named after his predecessors Raj Kapoor and Prithviraj Kapoor and was called as ‘Balbir Raj Prithviraj Kapoor’ but thankfully he shortened his name to Shashi Kapoor.
4. Akshay Kumar or Rajeev Bhatia
Akshay Kumar before entering the film industry was called as Rajeev Bhatia.
5. Rekha or Bhanurekha Ganesan
Rekha’s original name was ‘Bhanurekha Ganesan’ but she chose to go with just Rekha and never ever used her surname as well.
6. John Abraham or Farhan Abraham
John Abraham has a Persian name ‘Farhan Abraham’ but his father changed it to John Abraham.
7. Preity Zinta or Preetam Singh Zinta
Preity Zinta for her bubbly character had a not so bubbly name. She was called as Preetam Singh Zinta which somewhat sounds like a typical Punjabi name.
8. Jackie Shroff or Jaikishan Kakubhai Shroff
Jackie Shroff’s birth name was ‘Jaikishan Kakubhai Shroff’ which wouldn’t have gone with the type of gangster style characters that he usually plays.
9. Tiger Shroff or Jai Hemant Shroff
Like father like son. Just like Jackie Shroff his son Tiger was also named similarly. He was earlier called as ‘Jai Hemant Shroff’.
10. Sunny Leone or Karenjit Kaur Vohra
Well, this came as a surprise to me but it’s true that Sunny Leone’s real name is not Sunny Leone but her real name is ‘Karenjit Kaur Vohra’.
11. Dilip Kumar or Muhammad Yusuf Khan
Dilip Kumar’s name was changed by the actress Devika Rani. She requested to change Yusuf Khan’s name to Dilip Kumar.
12. Mandakini or Yasmeen Joseph
Raj Kapoor found Mandakini at the age was 22. She was born into an Anglo-Indian family. Her father was a British man while her mother was a Muslim and that’s why her name was Yasmeen Joseph.