Parineeti Chopra
Parineeti was a marketing intern at Yash Raj Films before her acting talent was discovered right there.
Sonam Kapoor
This star kid proved that she has some major acting chops with "Neerja". Many people also know that she used to be an assistant director for Sanjay Leela Bhansali in "Black". But, did you know that Sonam used to waitress at the age of 15?
Sonakshi Sinha
Before she got discovered for Salman Khan's 'Dabangg', Sonakshi started her career as a costume designer. She designed costumes for the film 'Mera Dil Leke Dekho' in 2005.
Taapsee Pannu
Although the "Naam Shabana" actress didn't actually pursue a career in engineering, she is an engineering graduate and even developed an app called FontSwap. It was a first-of-it's-kind app and allowed iPhone uses to change fonts
Rakhi Sawant
This item dancer began working as young as 10 just to make ends meet for her family. She was initially a caterer, before working as a bar dancer in Mumbai. This then slowly transitioned into her making appearances in music videos and B-grade films.
John Abraham
Before he could make profit off of his modelling and acting career, the handsome hunk who is an MBA-holder, used to work as a media planner for Enterprises-Nexus.
Dharmendra
The Action King of Bollywood initially worked in American Drilling Company, boring tubewells, before moving to Mumbai. It was a long wait before he got to realise his dreams of becoming a star in the Hindi film industry
Shah Rukh Khan
King Khan of B-Town used to work as an attendant at concerts in Delhi.
Rajinikanth
The Tamil superstar was a bus conductor with the Banglore Transport Service before he started doing stage plays.
Amitabh Bachchan
Big B's first job was as an executive with a shipping firm, Shaw Wallace. After that he worked as a freight broker for a shipping firm called Bird and Co.
Amrish Puri
The late actor had come to Mumbai to follow footsteps of his elder brothers - Madan Puri and Chaman Puri, who were already well-known in Bollywood for playing negative characters. But after he failed his first screen test, Amrish Puri took up a government job with Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC).
Akshay Kumar
Rajiv Bhatia was a waiter and a chef in a hotel in Bangkok, before he moved back to Mumbai and became the Khiladi Kumar of Bollywood
Dilip Kumar
Yusuf Khan was a canteen owner as well as a fruit seller before becoming the Tragedy King of Bollywood and being rechristened as Dilip Kumar
Arshad Warsi
Warsi was a door-to-door cosmetics salesman, and later even worked at a photo lab before Bollywood happened to him.
Shivaji Satam
Indian TV's legendary ACP Pradyuman worked as a cashier in a bank before he got his break in acting
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Before turning to Bollywood, Mehra was an ad filmmaker, and even before that he was a vacuum cleaner salesman. Yes, 'Rang De Basanti' director was selling vacuum cleaners for Eureka Forbes.
