From Sivaji Ganesan to Suriya, birth names of stars are not what you thought they were. From surprising real names to fascinating screen names, here is a list of reel and real of some famous Kollywood faces:

 

 

1. Chinnaiya Manrayar Ganesamoorthy - Sivaji Ganesan 

 

 

2. Vijaya Gurunatha Sethupathi Kalimuthu - Vijay Sethupathi 

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3. Narayanan Vijayaraj Alagarswami - Vijayakanth

 

 

 

4. Venkatesh Prabhu Kasthuri Raja - Dhanush

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5. Suhasini Rajaram Naidu - Sneha

 

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6. Panaisamy - Sivakumar

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7. Diana Mariam Kurian - Nayanthara

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8. Amar - Jiiva

 

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9. Gopishantha  - Manorama

 

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10. Kennedy John Victor - Vikram 

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11. Jamshad Cethirakath - Arya

 

12. Rangaraj Subbiah - Sathyraj 

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13. Shamshuddin Ibrahim - Shaam 

 

14. Panchaksharam Rangasamy Pillai - Vijayakumar

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15. S. Justin Selvaraj - SJ Suryah

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16. Ganapati Subramanian Sarma - Gemini Ganesan 

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17. Meenakshisundaram Ramasamy Viswanathan

 

18. Srinivasa Sarja  - Arjun 

 

19. Vinayagar Sundaravel - Sundar C

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20. Saravanan - Suriya

 

21. Ravichandran Samanna - Nizhagal Ravi

 

22.Sunil Kumar - Narain

 

23. Zareena Moidu - Nadhiya

 

24.J. Mohideen Abdul Khadar - Rajkiran

 

25. Kavitha Ranjini - Urvashi 

 

26. Sivaji Rao Geikwad - Rajinikanth 

 

27. Muhammad Kutty Panaparambil Ismail  - Mammootty

 

28.  Konidela Siva Sankara Vara Prasad - Chiranjeevi