Cine Stars - Real Names

We know Shivaji Rao is Superstar Rajinikanth and Raasaiya is Isaignani Ilayaraja. What about the other initials and screen names haunting the Kollywood ?

Do you know Gouthami's full name is Gouthami Tadimalla ( she is from andhara bava...)

So I decided to do some googling and wiki'ing to get a list done. Flicked some from Trivia Pettai Blog. (poluthu poga maatenguthu..enna seyya sollunga) Lets start with Vaathiyaar

MGR - Maradhur Gopalamenon Ramachandran

Superstar - Shivaji Rao Gaekwad

Asin - Asin Thottumkal (A from Sanskrit , Sin from English meaning Without Blemish)

AR Rahman - Allah Rakha Rahman / A.S. Dileep Kumar

Aishwarya - Shanthameena ( difficult to find out the full name bcoz multiple fathers ;-)

Bharatiraja - Alli Nagaram Chinnasamy

Dhanush - Venkat Prabhu

Gemini - Ganesan ( athu thaan ellarukkkum theriyume innu solreengala )

Ilayaraja - Gnanadesikan (at brith) / Rasaiya (school records)

Jothika - Jothika Sadhana

Nagma - Nandita

Roshini - Radhika

( nalla kalai kudumbam paa )

Karthik - Karthik Murali Muthuraman

LR Eswari - Lordhumary Rajeswari

MKT - Mayavaram Krishnamurthy Thyagarja Bhagavadhar ( Mayavaram is presently

Mayiladuthurai)

MS - Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi

NSK - Nagerkovil Sudalaimuthu Pillai Krishnan

P.Vasu - Peethambaram Vasu ( his dad was the aasthana make up man for most MGR films)

PB Sreenivas - Prathivadhi Bhayankara Sreenivas (he is fluent in 8 languages)

PU Chinnappa - Pudhukkottai Ulaganatha Pillai Chinnasami

Parthiban - Moorthy ( puthiya padhai director ingga..)

Revathi - Asha

SG Kittappa -Sengottai Gangadhara Kittappa

SPB - Sripathi Panditharadhyula Balasubrahmanyam

SV Ranga Rao- Samarla Venkata Ranga Rao

Sada- Sadaf Mohammed Syed

Sathyaraj - Rengaraj

Shyam - Samsuddin

Simbu -Silambarasan Rajendran / T.R.Silambarasan

Sivaji - Villupuram Chinnaiahpillai Ganesan

Sneha - Suabashini Rajaram

Srikanth - Krishnamachari Srikanth ( namma roja koottam ambee... )

sneha and srikanth names coming next to each other is juz coincidence

Soundarya - Sowmya ( Ponnumani movie loose paa)

Surya - Saravanan Sivakumar

TR Paappa - Sivasankaran ( music director) He was born in a family full of boys. His parents used to dress him up as a girl and hence the name Paappa.

Thengai Seeniavasn - Sithoor Seenivasan

Vijaykanth - Vijayaraja Alagarswami (olunga sontha oorula maadu mechittu irunthirukalaam....enna seyya...tamil cinema voda thalai elutha yaarala matha mudiyum)

Vikram - John Kennedy (namma Chiyaan paa..chellama Kenny)

Vijay - Joesph Vijay