We Bet You Don’t Know The Real Names Of These 15 Actors!
Many actors have changed their names before entering the industry. Some of these changes were made for religious or cultural reasons, while others were made to make the names more marketable and changing names for the screen has been an age old thing in the Entertainment Industry. Here we bring to you some well known actors with their real names.

1 Dev Anand
Dev Anand popularly known as Dev Saab’s real name was Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand.

2 Dilip Kumar
Dilip Kumar’s real name is Mohammed Yusuf Khan. But in those times all Muslim actors used to change their screen names to some Hind name.

3 Madhubala
The most beautiful woman in Bollywood was actually known as Begum Mumtaz Jahan Dehalvi.

4 Late Sridevi
The late actress ruled millions of hearts as Sridevi but her real name was Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan. She changed it because it was too long and did not sound that good.

5 Akshay Kumar
Akshay changed his name from Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia to Akshay Kumar to sound smart and hero like.

6 Chunky Pandey
Chunky Pandey has always been known by his nick name but his real name is Suyash Sharad Pandey.

7 Shakti Kapoor
Our very own villain ‘Aaooo’ Shakti Kapoor adopted the name Shakti before entering films. His real name is Sunil Sikanderlal Kapoor.

8 Saif Ali Khan
Saif’s real name is Sajid Ali Khan but he chose Saif as his screen name.

9 Sunny Deol
Sunny Deol wen ahead with his nick name just like his brother Bobby. Sunny’s real name is Ajay Singh Deol.

10 Ajay Devgn
Ajay’s real name is Vishal Veeru Devgn but he changed it to Ajay in order to sound more masculine and powerful.

11 Johnny Lever
Johnny Bhai has lived in our hearts since forever and has made us laugh so much but do you know that his real name is John Prakasa Rao Janumala.

12 Preity Zinta
Preity’s real name is Preetam Singh Zinta but she adopted a more feminine name when she debuted in the Hindi Film Industry.

13 Tiger Shroff
Tiger has also used his nick name as his professional name. His real name though is Jai Hemant Shroff.

14 Hrithik Roshan
Hrithik’s name is Hrithik Rakesh Nagrath but just like his father he adopted ‘Roshan’ as his surname for his Bollywood career.

15 Prabhas
The South sensation who is ruling the whole India has a really long name. His real name is Uppalapati Venkata Suryanarayana Prabhas Raju. So he shortened it to just Prabhas.

So, which of these names di you already know? Please do comment below.