MUMBAI: Many celebrities who are now popular in the Hindi film industry, did not always plan to enter Bollywood. While some of them did dream to became an actor/actress, the rest never thought of becoming one in the first place. However, as fate had it, they ended up being in the tinsel town and are today the biggest stars of Bollywood.
Before entering the world of glitz and glamour, many popular B-Town celebrities were in different professions altogether.
Well, we are going to discuss in detail about popular B-Town celebs and the jobs they did before joining the Hindi film industry.
Amitabh Bachchan, the man who needs no introduction, used to once work as an executive with a shipping firm, Shaw Wallace. That was his very first job before he became a legendary Bollywood actor. The megastar also worked as a freight broker for a shipping firm named 'Bird and Co.'.
Before Bollywood happened to him, Ranveer Singh was a part of the advertising industry. The actor worked as a copywriter at famous advertising agencies like 'O & M' (Ogilvy & Mather) and 'JWT Mumbai' (Wunderman Thompson). The actor had opened up about his past experience as a copywriter with Indian footballer Sunil Chhetri in an Instagram LIVE session.
Akshay Kumar is a Bollywood superstar today. But before achieving this feat, the actor worked as a waiter and as a chef in a Bangkok-based hotel. The actor would also buy jewellery from Bangkok and sell them in India to earn money. Recently, in an interview with PTI, Akshay shared, "Many years back I would ride a bike in Bangkok to deliver food. Now I am doing the same all over again, to earn my food.".
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Parineeti Chopra made her big Bollywood debut with Yash Raj Films' Ladies vs Ricky Bahl. The actress cracked a three-film deal with YRF and forayed into the industry. However, much before that, the actress used to work in the marketing department of the same firm. This revelation was made by her cousin Priyanka Chopra Jonas during the promotional event of 7 Khoon Maaf. "Parineeti is my sister. Today only she has signed a film with YRF. I am very happy that YRF signed her, She works with YRF's marketing department. In fact, she worked as PR for my film with YRF.," the actress had said.
You would be surprised to know that Kabir Singh actress Kiara Advani used to work at pre-school and it was her job to take care of kids there. Kiara had revealed this in an interview that, "Before I became an actor, my first job was at my mother’s pre-school. I used to be there by 7 am and take care of the kids. I have done it all when it comes to handling children. I sang nursery rhymes, made them learn alphabets and numbers and even changed their diapers.".
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