Most Educated Celebrities of Bollywood!

You wouldn’t expect geeks to be up there entertaining you with chops that send villains flying and out-of-the-world dance moves. But staying true to the movie mantra of exciting the audience with the unexpected (though they don’t always do that in the movies) there are some highly educated people gracing the Indian screens. Here are some of the super-educated Bollywood actors. 1. Parineeti Chopra Creds: Triple honours degree in business, finance and economics, Manchester Business School 2. Richa Chadda Creds: Bachelor’s degree in history, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi 3. Ayushmann Khurrana Creds: English Literature major from DAV College, Chandigarh; Masters in mass communication from School of Communication Studies, Punjab University, Chandigarh. 4. Amitabh Bachchan Creds: Double major in science, Honorary Doctorate degree from Queensland University, Australia 5. John Abraham Creds: Bachelor’s degree in Economics, MGA from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies 6. Preity Zinta Creds: Bachelor's degree in English with honours from St. Bede’s College, Shimla, Master’s degree in Criminal Psychology. 7. Vidya Balan Creds: Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from St. Xavier’s College, Master’s degree from the University of Mumbai. 8. R. Madhavan Creds: Graduate in Electronics Additional creds: Trained with the Air Force, Navy and the Royal Army; was the cultural ambassador for India in Canada. 9. Sonu Sood Creds: Engineering degree from Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, Nagpur. 10. Soha Ali Khan Creds: Master’s degree in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science. 11. Siddharth Creds: Bachelor of Commerce honours degree from Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi. Additional creds: Took part in many a world debating championship, MBA from SPJIMR, Mumbai, Was awarded in 1999 the CNBC Manager of the Year Award for speaking skills. 12. Omi Vaidya Creds: Graduated from Los Angeles County High School for Arts; Honours from the Tisch School of Arts, New York University. 13. Imran Khan Creds: Degree in film-making from New York Film Academy, Los Angeles. 14. Sushant Singh Rajput Creds: Studied Mechanical Engineering from DCE. 15. Kriti Sanon Creds: Has done B.Tech in Electronics and Communication. 16. Riteish Deshmukh Creds: M.Tech in Civil Engineering. 17. Taapsee Pannu Creds: Degree in Computer Science. 18. Vicky Kaushal Creds: He is an Electronics and Telecommunications Engineer. 19. Fawad Khan Creds: Holds a degree in Telecom Engineering. 20. Kartik Aaryan Creds: He is a B.Tech in Biotechnology! 21. Amisha Patel Creds: She is a Biomedical Engineer from Boston University 22. Kader Khan Creds: Apart from being an ace actor, Kader Khan is also a Civil Engineer! 23. Shankar Mahadevan Creds: The music maestro has also been a software engineer. 24. Akkineni Nagarjuna Creds: Holds a degree in automobile engineering. It’s ironic that we bunk classes to watch movies and then there are these on screen most educated Bollywood actors. But then irony is part of life and at least students can point out to parents that they watch their idols to see what education can do to you. You know, for purely academic reasons. *winks*

Zoya Ghosh

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