Top Bollywood stars who left their jobs for an acting career

Siddhi Chatterjee

Source: Bollywoodlife.com | May 17, 2023

Did you know there have been many Bollywood stars whose first job was not acting?

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Take a look at stars who left their corporate job to make a mark in Bollywood.

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Ranveer Singh reportedly worked as a copywriter befor e leaving and his debut in Yash Raj Films Band Baaja Baaraat.

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Vicky Kaushal got a job as an engineer. He had graduated in electronics and telecommunications engineering. He left everything to become a star by joining Kishore Namit Kapoor acting workshop.

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Ayushmann Khurana started his career as a RJ before becoming an actor. He did serious theatre and then became a VJ.

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John Abraham worked in an ad agency to earn his living before becoming an actor. However destiny favoured the star.

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Taapsee Pannu worked a s a software engineer before auditioning for Get Gorgeous, Channel V's talent show which opened doors for acting.

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Sonakshi Sinha started her career as a costume designer before making her name in Bollywood. She got recognised and that is how her debut movie Dabangg happened.

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Randeep Hooda did his Bollywood debut with Monsoon Wedding after quitting his job in a marketing firm.

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Sayani Gupta left her job in nfrastructure research firm and joined FTII where she specialised in acting before her debut with Margarita With A Straw.

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Parineeti Chopra was with the marketing firm of Yash Raj Film Studios as a PR consultant and then Ladies v/s Ricky Bahl came.

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Riteish Deshmukh worked in an architectural firm in New York before he did his course in acting from The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

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