While many Indian stars chose acting as their first career option, like Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Ananya Panday, etc, some have changed their professions after college to start a new film industry journey. Some actors like late Sushant Singh Rajput and Sonu Sood, Vicky Kaushal, and Kartik Aaryan quit their engineering careers to enter showbiz. Take a look at 9 such actors.
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Kartik Aaryan pursued a career in engineering. He studied for an engineering degree in biotechnology from Navi Mumbai's D Y Patil College of Engineering.
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Late Sushant Singh Rajput started pursuing a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi Technological University because his father wanted him to become an engineer. However, during his college years, he decided to drop out of engineering college to pursue his dream of acting.
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Sonu Sood pursued a degree in Electronics Engineering from Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, Nagpur.
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Taapsee Pannu pursued a degree in Computer Science Engineering from the Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology, New Delhi. She even worked as a software engineer before starting modelling and acting in advertisements.
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Vicky Kaushal graduated with a bachelor's degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from Mumbai's Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology in 2009.
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Akkineni Nagarjuna, one of the top Tollywood actors, studied Automobile Engineering at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
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Kriti Sanon pursued a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida.
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Ritesh Deshmukh holds a Master Degree in Civil Engineering. It is said that he is an architect and haddesigned Shah Rukh Khan's office in Mumbai.
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Ameesha Patel studied biogenetic engineering for 2 years at Tufts University in Massachusetts, U.S, and later graduated with a gold medal in economics from the same university in 1997.
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R. Madhavan studied electronics engineering from Rajaram College in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, and has a degree in public speaking from Kishinchand Chellaram College in Maharashtra.
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