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Bollywood

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Making it big in life without a college degree, these
10 celebrities opted to drop-out and pursue stardom instead.
However, what’s more important today – fame or education?
By Bhoomi Wadhwa & Prerna Kishore

1 Kareena Kapoor Khan
            Glitz and glamour always attracted Kareena Kapoor Khan from a very
            young age. After pursuing commerce for two years at Mithibai College,
            Kareena developed an interest in law, which then led to her enrollment at the
            Government Law College. However after just the rst year, she quit to join
            the Indian lm business as a newcomer in Refugee. Today, she is one of the
            highest paid actresses of the decade.

2 Karisma Kapoor                          3 Deepika Padukone
        Karisma Kapoor allegedly                  Playing a studious college girl
        dropped out of school soon                in Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani,
        after she entered the sixth               Deepika Padukone never
        grade to pursue acting, as                followed in her characters path
        lots of o ers started coming              o -screen. Very few people
        her way. She acted in her rst             are aware that this gorgeous
        movie, Prem Qaidi when she                actress initially joined Mount
        was just 16 years old. Her                Carmel in Bangalore and
        startling good looks and family           even enrolled for a short
        line were the main reasons that           term course in Indira Gandhi
        led her to drop out of school at          National Open University in
        such a young age.                         New Delhi, however she never
                                                  ended up nishing either of
                                                  the programmes. Bollywood’s
                                                  current highest grossing
                                                  actress started getting o ers
                                                  at a very young age which
                                                  led to the beginning of her
                                                  modelling career.

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