We know that few celebrities change their names once they make it into the glam world. But, will that really matter to us? Some say yes, but if you look at them from the other side, they just come into your life as one character. Now name that character whatever you want, it is going to be the same. What’s in the name?
Just kidding around!! Names are the ones that make us unique and choosing acting has got these actors two names. There could be many reasons to do so. For example, let’s take 2 reasons:
i) When their name is too long or strange, they wish to have a screen name. Ex: Manchu Bhakthavatsalam Naidu as Mohan Babu
ii) When their name doesn’t look appealing. Ex: Anushka as Sweety.
Similarly here are some of the unknown but real names of South Indian celebrities. Some of them might even surprise you..
1. Chiranjeevi – Konidela Shiva Sankara vara Prasad
2. Nani – Naveen Babu Ghanta
3. Pawan Kalyan – Konidela Kalyan Babu
4. Veeramachaneni Jagapati Rao – Jagapathi Babu
5. SS Rajamouli – Koduri Srisaila Sri Rajamouli
6. MM Keeravani – Koduri Marakathamani Keeravaani
7. Ravi Teja – Bhupatiraju Ravi Shankar Raju
8. Trivikram Srinivas – Akella Naga Srinivasa Sarma
9. Krishna Vamsi – Pasupuleti Venkata Bangaaru Raju
10. Prabhas – Venkata Satyanarayana Prabhas Raju Uppalapati
11. Mammootty – Muhammad Kutty Paniparambil Ismail
12. Soundarya – Soumya
13. Rajinikanth – Shivaji rao Gaikwad
14. Roja – Srilatha Reddy
15. Arya – Jamshad Cethirakath
16. ‘Superstar’ Krishna – Ghattamaneni Shiva Rama Krishna
17. Sri Devi – Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan
18. Nayanthara – Diana Mariam Kurian
19. Mani Ratnam – Gopala ratnam Subramaniam
20. Rambha – Vijayalakshmi
21. Jayaprada – Lalitha Rani
22. Dhanush – Venkatesh Prabhu
23. Sneha – Suhasini Raja Ratnam Naidu
24. Sathyaraj – Rangaraj
25. Meera Jasmine – jasmine Mary Joseph
26. Revathy – Asha Kutty
27. AR rahman – A.S. Dileep Kumar
28. Kiara Advani – Alia Advani
29. Anushka Shetty – Sweety Shetty
30. Kamal Hassan – Parthasarathy Srinivasan
31. Jayasudha – Sujatha Nidudavolu
32. Tabu – Tabassum Hashmi Khan
33. Suriya – Saravanan Siva Kumar
34. Vikram – Kennedy John Victor
35. Jiva – Amar
36. Vijay – Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar
37. Yash – Naveen Kumar Gowda
38. Silk Smitha – Vijaya Lakshmi
39. Bhumika Chawla – Rachna Chawla
40. Nagma Real Name: Nandita Arvind Morarji