Quirky Nicknames Of Your Favourite Bollywood Stars That’ll Make You Go LOL
Mimi, Bebo, Duggu, and more, check out the funny nicknames of Bollywood celebrities.
Shakespeare once said, “What’s in a name?” and we say, ‘EVERYTHING’. While we don’t deny the notion that no matter what you call it, a rose will definitely smell sweet. The name is a pretty important part of who you are. Lately, Bollywood stars have started giving a lot of thought to deciding the names of their kids as well as their nicknames Well, this wasn’t the case earlier. While everyone is familiar with names like Ramu and Shyamu, some Bollywood stars had the quirkiest nicknames.
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Among all the weird, funny nicknames in the industry, here are some of our favourites:
Priyanka Chopra
Global icon Priyanka Chopra is currently been in news for her memoir titled, ‘Unfinished’. While the star has talked about several positive and negative chapters of her life in this book, we’ll just stick to her nickname for now. The beautiful actress was called ‘Mimi’ as she mimicked everyone when she was a small kid. She’s also known as the ‘Desi Girl’ in Bollywood, a nickname given by Abhishek Bacchan after working on Dostana together.
Kartik Aaryan
Chocolate boy Kartik Aaryan is the hot favourite among gen z. While the actor posts content with the hashtag #KokiPoochega not many people know that ‘Koki’ is actually his nickname, which in the Sindhi language means, paratha.
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The Kapoor Family
When it comes to weird, funny, nicknames nobody can beat the Kapoors. Kareena Kapoor and Karishma Kapoor are called ‘Bebo’ and ‘Lolo’ respectively while Neetu Singh calls Ranbir ‘Raymond’ as the actor always loved to be well-groomed. Late Rishi Kapoor was called ‘Chintu’ while Randhir Kapoor is named ‘Dabboo’ after his grandfather’s pet dog.
Shraddha Kapoor and Varun Dhawan
The Baaghi actress is teasingly called ‘chirkut’. This nickname was given to her by her childhood friend Varun Dhavan when they were both in school. Varun himself is a part of this list with his nickname being ‘Pappu’, which is how he’s called at home.
Hrithik Roshan
Hrithik probably has one of the cutest nicknames in Bollywood. The handsome actor is called ‘Duggu’ while his father Rakesh Roshan is called ‘Guddu’.
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Some other funny nicknames that we love are beauty queen, Aishwarya Rai’s nickname ‘Gullu’ and Akshay Kumar being called ‘Raju’ due to his real name Rajiv Bhatia.
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