10 Tollywood film celebrities who altered their names & spellings!
Changing a known & established name to attract luck is usually termed a superstitious thing. However, there are several educated people from various walks of life, who have gone through this process of altering their names as per numerology and sometimes by altering their names with a weird spellings too to get luck and in harmony with their date of birth. Below are a few actors from Tollywood who have gone through name changes not just for numerology purpose but for other reasons too...have a look at them....to know what it is...!
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Nithiin
Telugu actor Nithiin who made his acting debut in Telugu cinema with ‘Jayam’ in 2002 was introduced with the spelling ‘Nitin’ but then may be a few of the industry friends addressed him as ‘tintin’ and also because the actor failed to give a hit, he then added an extra ‘I’ to his name and now he is known as Nithin.
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Adith/Thrigun
Telugu-Tamil actor who made his acting debut under the screen name Adith Arun has recently changed his name to Trigun with a 2023 romantic film ‘Premadesam’ as he wasn’t getting the needed success with his original name Adith/Thrigun.
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Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam
Writer, Director and Actor Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam who rose to fame by directing ‘Pelli Choopulu’ with Vijay Deverakonda received a National Award for best dialogues in the film. Like many others, he didnt made any changes to his first name but he made some unique changes to his middle and surname. He has an extra ‘c’ added to his middle name while his surname ‘Dhaassyam’ has got an extra ‘a’ and extra ‘s’.
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MM.Keeravani
Koduri Marakathamani Keeravani who uses it as MM Keeravani on title cards in Telugu doesn’t use the same title card in other language films such as Tamil and Hindi. In Tamil, he uses his title card as Marakathamani whereas in Hindi as MM. Kreem. Not sure if it is for the numerology purpose as his name Keeravani itself is a unique one.
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Sai Dharam Tej
Yet another Telugu actor who made his film acting debut with the 2014 film ‘Pilla Nuvvu Leni Jevitham’ has changed his name over a period from PanJa Sai Sharam Tej to Sai Tej and again went back to his original screen name ‘Sai Dharam Tej’ now.
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Kalyani Malik
Telugu Music director Kalyani Malik who has given some of the decent melodies hits in Tollywood is a younger brother to Veteran music composer MM. Keeravani too has changed his screen names like his elder brother over a period from Kalyan Koduri, Kalyani Koduri, then Koduri Kalyan and finally Kalyani Malik.
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Veda/Archana
Telugu actress Archana Shastry was born in Hyderabad, Telangana and was introduced to the Telugu film industry in 2004 with the movie ‘Tapana’ with the name Veda. However after tasting failures in a few initial projects, Veda went back to her original name, Archana.
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Srikanth/Sriram
Telugu-Tamil actor Srikanth just to avoid any confusion with another Telugu actor Srikanth has changed name to Sriram just for the Telugu industry and is known as Srikanth in Tamil film industry.. Srikanth’s father is said to be from Andhra (Chittoor), while his mother is from Tamil Nadu Kumbakonam. Interestingly, he was raised in Hyderabad but settled in Chennai.
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Selva Raghavan
Tamil film writer and director Selvaraghavan who has delivered several superhits in Southern cinema uses his title card as ‘Sri Raghava’ for his Telugu films. Though Selva Raghavan is a unique name here and hardly any other filmmaker has the same name still SR uses a different name for Telugu films.
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Raghava Lawrence
Lawrence Raghavendra, an Indian dancer, choreographer, actor, composer and director who went by his original Lawrence for a very long adopted the prefix ‘Raghava’ in 2001 and the same is credited in his directorial films since then.
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Kajal Aggarwal
Telugu actress Kajal’s surname takes an extra ‘g’ unlike other Agarwal names such as Aarthi Agarwal, Sonia Agarwal, and Aditi Agarwal and it is written as ‘Kajal Aggarwal’. The same goes with another Indian actress Nidhhi Agerwal contrary to the usual writing of her surname both her first and second name looks different in terms of their spellings and is written as Nidhhi Agerwal.
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