While celebrities are worshipped and scrutinised around the globe, they are hated and loved to the extremes in India. If there are two things that Indians absolutely love, it’s cricket and cinema. There have been reports of celebrities having their own temples which have been installed by fans and posters of stars being showered with litres of milk. However, before they became who they are today, many Indian celebrities had completely regular jobs. Take a look.
1. Parineeti Chopra was a marketing intern at Yash Raj Films before she snagged her first role in Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl.
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2. Taapsee Pannu may have blown the audience and critics away with Thappad but before she entered the world of films, the engineering graduate actually developed an app called FontSwap which allowed all iOS users to change their fonts.
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3. Smriti Irani may be one of the most powerful people in India today but before she became Tulsi Virani and a big shot politician, she had to work as a janitor in a Mcdonald’s.
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4. Today, John Abraham is one of the leading actors in Bollywood but before he made it big as a model and actor, he worked as a media planner at Enterprises-Nexus.
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5. Who doesn’t love Ranveer Singh? This leading man used to work as a copywriter for renowned advertising firms like O&M and J. Walter Thompson before Bollywood happened to him.
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6. Actor Rajinikanth is worshipped like a God in India to the extent that people shred theatre curtains if his character gets hurt in a movie. However, before he became the living legend that he is, Rajinikanth worked as a bus conductor at the Banglore Transport Service.
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7. They say that we should save the best for the last, so here goes – before Amitabh Bachchan’s booming baritone took over Hindi cinema, it used to echo in the halls of a shipping firm called Shaw Wallace and Bird and Co.
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