5 Popular Bollywood Celebs You Wouldn't Believe Played The Younger Self Of These Popular Actors

If Bollywood is a sea then our knowledge is probably just worth a drop. In this ever-fantastic world of Bollywood, there is always some trivia that we can update ourselves with. While there is a lot we know about the child artists of Bollywood, like the ones who grew up to be successful and the ones whose career plummeted once they grew up, but what you probably didn’t know these popular stars who as child artists played the young version of other popular stars. And no we are not talking about Imran Khan playing young Aamir in Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander.

We all know Sonu Nigam as one of the most successful playback singers of Bollywood. Some of his biggest fans would also know that he has acted in a couple of films, none of which, unfortunately, made it big on the box-office. However, what you did not know, is Sonu Nigam played a young Sunny Deol in the super hit 1983 film Betaab.

It literally feels like we have seen Shah Rukh Khan’s eldest son growing in front of our eyes. While most of us can’t take our eyes off him these days and every picture of his on social media goes viral making us yearn for his Bollywood debut even more, did you know that he has already had his debut that too with the super hit Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham. A four-year-old Aryan played the young Shah Rukh Khan in the film.

We all know that Aftab Shivdasani is not the biggest success story in Bollywood and we also know that his stint as a child actor was much more successful than his career as a lead. But do you know that as a child actor, out of many films he has done, he has played the younger version of two of the most iconic actors in two superhit movies? Yes, Aftab has played the young Aamir Khan in Awwal Number and none other than a young Amitabh in Shahenshah!

You must remember Omkar Kapoor as Tarun from Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 and some of you might also have an idea about his career as a child artist, especially the super hit song ‘Dubi Dubi Dub Dub’. However, if anything goes higher on his list of achievements, it would probably be the fact that he played the younger version of Salman Khan in blockbuster Judwa.

Neil Nitin Mukesh who is actually going to become a dad soon was one cute kid himself and he did not disappoint us after growing up as well. Even though his career has not seen much of success after growing up, as a kid, he played a young Govinda in Jaisi Karni Waisi Bharni