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Bollywood celebrities and their obsession with luxury cars

When it comes to Bollywood celebrities, luxury is a word that is easily associated while describing them. Luxury houses, luxury amenities and how can we overlook their luxury cars. Here we take a look at some lavishly spending Bollywood celebrities and their mean machines.

Sanjay Dutt

Car crazy Sanjay Dutt is a proud owner of a bright red Ferrari 599 GTB. The estimated prize is somewhere close to Rs. 5.5 crore for this car. Besides this, he also owns a whole fleet of cars including a Porsche SUV. Sanjay gifted his wife Manyata a Rolls Royce Ghost on the birth of their twins.

Twinkle Khanna

Akshay Kumar’s wife is one of the few Bentley owners in Mumbai. Gifted by Akshay, this car is said to be worth around Rs. 3 crore.

Sunil Shetty

Sunil owns a civilian version of the Hummer H3 which is used by the US army. This car costs approximately Rs. 1.5 crore.

Amitabh Bachchan

Vidhu Vinod Chopra gifted Amitabh Bachchan a Rolls-Royce Phantom while working with him for the movie ‘Eklavya’. This car is the costliest in Amitabh’s collection.

Abhishek Bachchan

Amitabh gifted his son, Abhishek, a luxurious Bentley Continental GT on his 31st birthday. This car costs more than two crore and has sophisticated touch screen controls and rotary switches.

Ajay Devgn

It is a well known fact that Ajay is a car fanatic. This car crazy actor has a BMW Z4, a Maserati, a Ferrari and a Mercedes Z-class. Quite an impressive collection, we’d say!

Shilpa Shetty

Not too long ago, Shilpa received a Lamborghini from husband Raj Kundra. This car, besides being one of the fastest cars ever, costs a whopping Rs. 3.6 crore.

Bollywood Celebrities Who Never Graduated

Wouldn’t you want to earn millions too? Without a degree! Well, then try getting into politics or Bollywood. Sure shot ways of minting money! Here we list down Bollywood celebs that haven’t even graduated and yet are earning hundred times more than you could ever earn.

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Kareena Kapoor

but later developed an interest in law. She enrolled herself in Government Law College, however had to leave within a year to fulfil her dreams of joining Bollywood.

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Priyanka Chopra

Former Miss World Priyanka Chopra joined Jai Hind College in Mumbai but could not complete her graduation since she won the Miss India title at the age of 18.

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Aishwarya was initially in Jai Hind College as well but a year later, she switched to another college to pursue a career in architecture. Soon after she had to give up her education to pursue a career in modelling that took her to the Miss World crown as well.

Aamir Khan

Aamir Khan did his Standard 12 from Narsee Monjee College in Mumbai, but barely attended classes because he was always busy with dramatics. Aamir did not study beyond that and pursued a career in acting that bought him to where he is today.

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Deepika Padukone

Deepika was a part of Mount Carmel College in Bangalore but could not complete her studies due to her modelling career. She later enrolled in the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) but could not complete that either.

Alia Bhatt

Alia was a part of Jamnabai Narsee School and soon after completing school she pursued a career in acting and film direction, following in her father’s footsteps.

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Salman Khan

‘Dabangg’ superstar Salman Khan completed his schooling from The Scindia School, Gwalior and St. Stanislaus High School, Mumbai. Sallu was never keen to complete his graduation and joined Bollywood at the age of 23.

Bollywood celebs before stardom

So, most Bollywood celebrities live lavish lives that we all dream of, but did you know, not all of them started at the top? Many of these stars have worked their way to the top by starting off with day jobs just like all of us.

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Zeenat Aman

Zeenat was one of Bollywood’s sex symbols in the 70’s and 80’s. She was a journalist for a magazine before she shifted her focus to a career in modelling, within which she flourished and rose to the top.

Amrish Puri

The super-villain of Indian cinema Amrish Puri was a part of Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) before superstardom.

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Raaj Kumar

Raaj Kumar was a Sub-Inspector in Mumbai police before becoming one of the most stylish actors in Bollywood.

Smita Patil

Smita worked as a Doordarshan television newscaster in the 70’s. She then entered the film industry and turned out to be a legend.

Ashok Kumar

He was a lab assistant in Himanshu Rai’s studio, and became an actor by accident. Wouldn’t you love to be in an accident like this?

Sunil Dutt

Sunil Dutt was a popular radio announcer on the legendary radio station, Radio Ceylon.

R Madhavan

This south superstar who impressed one and all with his role in ‘3 Idiots’ was a very good orator, and he started a small business, conducting workshops on communication and public speaking.

Sunny Leone

Everyone knows Sunny for her adult film industry background, but just a handful know that she worked in a German bakery and later in a tax and retirement firm. Academically, Sunny was studying to become a nurse.

Boman Irani

Boman worked as a waiter and a room service staff at a leading five-star hotel. Later, he even helped his mother at their ancestral bakery in South Mumbai.

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Jacqueline Fernandez

This beauty queen was a television reporter in Sri Lanka before contesting and winning a beauty pageant and later entering Bollywood.

John Abraham

John worked at a famous ad agency in Mumbai as a media planner where he was offered a proposal to become a model.

Rajinikanth

This South superstar hails from a humble background and had to do various jobs to support his family. He worked as a coolie, a carpenter and later a bus conductor before becoming the superstar he is today.

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Akshay Kumar

The daredevil of Bollywood was formerly a chef and waiter in Hong Kong. He was, however, a black belt in Taekwondo and soon returned to Mumbai to teach martial arts. Who knew he would end up in Bollywood back then!

Johnny Lever

The king of Indian comedy Johnny Lever hails from a humble background and had to quit school to support his family. He started by selling pens on the streets. Later he joined Hindustan Lever, where his talent of mimicry was appreciated, following which he took off to Bollywood and stuck with the stage name – Johnny Lever.

Houses of Bollywood actors

The grandeur of Bollywood celebrities is best expressed with their lavish houses around the city. Here we take a look at some celebrities and their houses.

Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh owns three houses Jalsa, Prateeksha and Janak which are all located in the posh Juhu Scheme area of Mumbai, and are at walking distance from each other. The Bachchans initially used to stay in Jalsa, but after Abhishek Bachchan gained stardom they moved into the bigger Prateeksha. Janak is used as an office. Every Sunday, whenever Senior Bachchan is in town, he makes it a point to greet his fans outside his house, Jalsa. Fans, who know about his practice, start gathering outside the famous abode by 5 PM, so that they get to see this legendary star from as close as possible.

Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh has a palatial sea facing house named ‘Mannat’ in Bandra, Mumbai. The house has six floors each catering to a different need. It has a private cinema, a library, a gym and a few rooms for photo shoots. Shah Rukh lives with his wife Gauri, two children and sister Lala Rukh Khan.

Deepika Padukone

Daughter of legendary badminton player Prakash Padukone, Deepika stays in a four bedroom spread with three parking lots in the BeauMonde Towers near the Siddivinayak temple in Prabhadevi, Mumbai. It is on the 26th floor and is worth INR 16 crores. This apartment has been rumoured to have been gifted by her ex boyfriend Sidharth Mallya. But if it was indeed nothing but a rumour, then Deepika, who was 25 at that time, must be the youngest achiever in B-town to buy such an expensive house!

Salman Khan

This Khan can easily afford a lavish bungalow in the heart of Mumbai; but he chooses to stay in an apartment with his family! His building, Galaxy Apartments, is a landmark and also a tourist attraction in the area, just like his contemporary, SRK’s Mannat. This superstar lives with his parents Salim and Salma Khan, Helen, Arbaaz Khan, Malaika Arora and their son, Sohail Khan and his wife and son, and his sister Arpita.

John Abraham

John Abraham’s sea facing apartment is a duplex is located in Mumbai near the Arabian Sea and has a clear view of it. This house comes in the category of simple yet stunning. Each room of his apartment is finely planned and designed along with the apt furniture and accessories.

Bollywood relationships you may not know about

There are many Bollywood relationships that most of us are unaware about. Check out this list of relationships you might not have known.

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Bachchan family

Amitabh’s daughter Shweta is married to industrialist Nikhil Nanda, who is the son of Ritu Nanda – daughter of Raj Kapoor and Krishna Raj Kapoor. So the Bachchans and the Kapoors – the two biggest families in Bollywood – are actually related!

Sidharth Malhotra

Director Sidharth Malhotra of ‘We Are Family’ fame is the grandson of actor Prem Nath. We’re pretty sure only a few people knew that!

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Sharman Joshi

Sharman is married to Prerna Chopra, daughter of actor Prem Chopra. Whereas, Prem’s other daughter Punita is married to actor Vikas Bhalla.

Fardeen Khan

Fardeen Khan is married to Natasha Madhwani who is the daughter of veteran actress Mumtaz.

Shekhar Kapur

Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur is actually the nephew of legendary actor Dev Anand. Kapur is the son of Dev Anand’s sister, Sheel Kanta Kapur.

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Mithun Chakravarthy

Mithun is married to Geeta Bali’s daughter Yogeeta Bali. Geeta was the first wife of actor Shammi Kapoor.

Tabu

Niece of Shabana Azmi, Tabu gained stardom from a young age. She is also the sister of actress Farha Naaz.

Abhishek Kapoor

Abhishek Kapoor, who was the director of ‘Rock On’ is the nephew of Jeetendra, thus the cousin of Ekta Kapoor and Tusshar Kapoor.

Shakti Kapoor

One of Bollywood’s most famous villains, Shakti Kapoor, is the brother-in-law of Padmini Kolhapure. He is married to Padmini’s sister Shivangi.

Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Ramanand Sagar and Vidhu Vinod Chopra are half brothers. Their father married Vinod’s mother after Ramanand’s mother passed away.

Ranveer Singh

Actor Ranveer Singh, who is rumoured to be a Deepika Padukone’s flame, is Sonam Kapoor’s maternal cousin.

Simi Garewal

Simi Garewal is the first cousin of Yash Chopra’s wife Pamela. Simi’s mother Darshi and Pamela’s father Mohinder Singh were siblings. Interestingly, it was Simi who had introduced Pamela to Yash at a wedding!

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Farhan Akthar

Farhan and Zoya Akthar are the cousins of Sajid and Farah Khan – their mothers are sisters. Quite surprising isn’t it?

Top 5 highest grossing Bollywood films

Since the days of ‘Raja Harishchandra’ produced by Dadasaheb Phalke in 1913, Bollywood has come a long way. Bollywood is now the largest film production centre in the world. When it comes to Bollywood, it is big money. From budgets to revenue earned, the Indian Film industry is mega bucks. Let us have a look at the five highest grossing Bollywood films of all time.

‘Dhoom 3′

This Aamir Khan starrer broke records all over the world. With a budget of 1.5 billion INR, this mega movie recovered more than it could have asked for. It collected over 5.3 billion INR worldwide. This film beat the record set by ‘Chennai Express’.

‘Chennai Express’

This Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone starrer is an action-comedy film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Gauri Khan under the banner Red Chillies Entertainment. With a comparatively meagre budget of 250 million INR, this movie reached new heights by grossing at 3.2 billion INR. Quite a turnover!

‘Krrish 3′

A budget of only 150 million INR turned out to be quite a steal when the results of its grossing came out. ‘Krrish 3′ earned a whopping 3.1 billion INR. The film is produced and directed by Rakesh Roshan and it stars Hrithik Roshan, Vivek Oberoi, Priyanka Chopra, and Kangana Ranaut.

‘3 Idiots’

Until 2013, ‘3 Idiots’ was the largest grossing Bollywood film worldwide. A budget of only 35 crores, this movie arrived with a mega return on investment with an enormous 392 crores!

‘Ek Tha Tiger’

The budget of this film was 75 crores INR and it grossed around 310 crore INR worldwide. This Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif starrer was directed by Kabir Khan and produced by Aditya Chopra of Yash Raj Films.

Mega money is an understatement for these Bollywood blockbuster incomes. Were they worth it? You bet!

The Richest Bollywood Stars Of Today

Bollywood is known for its legendary actors, musicians, dancers and composers. This film industry has been flourishing by leaps and bounds since the 1930’s. As the Indian currency is getting stronger day by day, so is the revenue earned by this mega industry. People do not read books as much they watch films, so there is no reason why the money won’t flow into the industry. Here we take a look at some of the richest Bollywood stars of today.

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Shah Rukh Khan

This Baadshah of Bollywood even made it into the highest earners in the world. Coming second only to Jerry Seinfeld, Shah Rukh topped superstars like Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp as well. Khan earns around 35 crore rupees per movie and around 15 crore per endorsement. Shah Rukh’s net worth is around US $600 million.

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Aamir Khan

One of the top 3 most well known Khans in India, Aamir is a super high earner as well. Having made up his way to the top due to his versatility, this actor is very selective about his movies and charges a whopping 30 crores per movie and earns around 4 crore for every endorsement (mostly ones with a social cause).

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Salman Khan

One more super Khan, Salman, charges around 35 crores per movie that he stars in, plus a percentage of the profit. Besides being known for his superb physique, his enormous fan following is one more reason why producers wouldn’t mind throwing that much money for the superstar.

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Akshay Kumar

This top notch action star has been making the mega bucks since the last few years. Since he has a background in Taekwondo, Akshay performs his own stunts for his movies and charges anything between 18-30 crores per movie, while around 5 crores for his commercials.

Hrithik Roshan

Hrithik has shown his tremendous potential by acting and dancing his way to superstardom. He charges around 25 crore per movie he appears and around 5 crore for endorsements!

Bollywood celebrities who changed their names

Bollywood celebrities have changed their names for various reasons. Numerology, superstition and sometimes just for a better name, celebrities have changed a letter or more in their names. Let us look at a few.

Katrina Kaif

Kat’s surname was Turquotte. After Jackie Shroff’s wife advised Katrina to change her surname in the early days of her career, the long legged beauty did as suggested. The logic behind the change was to let people pronounce her full name without any difficulty.

Mallika Sherawat

This hottie’s real name is Reema Lamba. But after realizing that there were many actresses in the industry with the same name, she decided to change it to Mallika Sherawat to avoid confusion. Sherawat, however, was her mother’s maiden name.

Amitabh Bachchan

Bachchan, also known as Big B has a cult like fan following in India. However, just a few know that in his debut film titled ‘Saat Hindustani’, Amitabh was actually Amitabh Srivastav before he switched to Amitabh Bachchan soon after the film’s disastrous fate.

Akshay Kumar

Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia! We wonder if he would make it big with that name. Akshay Kumar, who was a struggling chef, entered the film industry only after changing his name.

Ajay Devgn

Action choreographer Veeru Devgan named his son Vishal Veeru Devgan. But just before Vishal was to enter filmdom, he got himself a new identity – Ajay. And in 2009, he dropped ‘a’ from his last name.

John Abraham

John’s Parsi name ‘Farhan’ wasn’t interesting enough for him to grab attention. So he chose the name given to him by his father.

Rekha

Rekha, such a nice, small and sweet name. Compare this with Bhanurekha Ganesan. We’re glad she decided to give her name a change!

Bollywood celebrities and expensive gifts

In an industry ruled by the rich and famous, ‘flaunting it’ is not a big deal. They say it isn’t right to put a price tag on a gift, but these gifts are so exorbitant that we couldn’t help but whisper it out loud! Let us take a look at a few expensive, glamorous and flashy gifts showered upon Bollywood celebrities and their loved ones.

Sanjay Dutt

Sanjay gifted his wife Manyata a car which anyone one of us could only dream of – a Rolls-Royce worth Rs 3 crore! Talk about lavish! He also gave his director a 10 lakh rupees watch for doing a great scene in the movie ‘Zanjeer’. Wouldn’t you to stick around this guy?

Shah Rukh Khan

The Baadshah of Bollywood has always been known to be generous. In 2009, SRK gifted an Audi 6 worth Rs 60 lakh to his kids Aryan and Suhana. Generous is something, but this is whoa! Besides this, Shah Rukh has also given lavish cars to his directors and co-actors quite often.

Raj Kundra

Shilpa is one lucky girl! On Valentine’s Day in 2009, Shilpa was presented a 48 carat heart-shaped natural white diamond ring worth a fortune! Raj also gifted her an apartment on the 19^th floor of The Burj Khalifa apartment in Dubai.

Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Vidhu Vinod Chopra was so excited to work with the legendary

Amitabh Bachchan in ‘Eklavya’ that he gifted him a Rolls-Royce worth Rs 3.5 crore.

Siddharth Roy Kapur

Hubby of Bollywood dame Vidya Balan, Siddharth Roy Kapur gifted his dearest wife a high end, luxury, sea facing apartment worth crores of rupees, in the plush Juhu area of Mumbai.

Salman Khan

How can we count out this bold hunk! Any Bollywood list and this man’s name is not going to be overlooked. When it comes to showering expensive gifts, Sallu knows how to do it! When Kareena didn’t take any payment for her item number ‘Fevicol Se’ (Dabangg 2), Salman returned the gesture with a swanky BMW. Sallu also gifted his sister, Alvira, a penthouse and a precious diamond bracelet worth a whopping Rs 1.25 crore.