6 Bollywood Celebs Who Kept Their Mom’s Surnames

We all know our society’s norm that we have to choose our father’s name as middle name and their surname too.

But some people do not find any wrong in using their Mom’s name and surname and defy this common custom. The famous name that click’s in our mind as we talk about this topic of dual surnames, is Mr. Sanjay Leela Bhansali. He chose take his mom’s name as middle name.

Apart from him, there are many other Bollywood stars with matronymic surnames.

Let us have a look at them.

1. Riya And Raima Sen

These Sen Sisters use their famous mommy Moon Moon Sen’s surname. Their father is Bharat Dev Varma, who belongs from a royal family.

2. Aditi Rao Hydari

Aditi has adopted both her mom’s as well as her father’s surname. She has two royal lineages, that of great-grandfather who was the Nizam’s prime minister a and J. Rameshwar Rao, the former Raja of Wanaparthy.

3. Konkana Sen Sharma

Konkona Sen Sharma gladly uses her mother’s surname as her middle name and dad’s name. She is born to Mukul Sharma and Aparna Sen. She told how people used to misunderstand her mom’s surname as her father surname and father’s surname as her husband’s. She also revealed once that she loves her parents and that’s why she uses both.

4. Mallika Sherawat

Mallika Sherawat’s real name is Reema Lamba. She adopted her mother’s maiden name when she was thinking on having a stage name. She received lot of support from her mom and that’s why she thought using her mother’s name as best idea.

5. Imran Khan

This Bollywood hero was born to Anil Pal and Nuzhat Khan. He inherited his mom’s surname legally after the couple divorced.

6. Lisa Haydon

This model-turned-actress too uses mother’s maiden surname. Many do not know that her father is South Indian, with last name as Venkat and her mother is an Australian. As soon as she was born, the family had to fly to Australia and infants are not allowed to have their own passports. She shared her mom’s passport and since then she is using her mom’s last name.

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