How did SP Sinha become Shatrughan Sinha?
Shotgun Shatrughan Sinha of the seventies and eighties has a
very interesting story about his film entry and his film nomenclature. Shatrughan
Sinha completed his acting course from the Film and Television Institute of
India, Pune. After completing his course in 1967, he came to Mumbai and
started looking for work. His face was not meant to be a hero from any
angle, so he had to struggle a lot. He initially played the roles of the
protagonist and the villain. The Alumni Association was very helpful in
getting him his first job.
One of his seniors sent Shatrughan Sinha to Gogi Anand. Gogi
Anand was Dev Anand's nephew and was assisting Dev Anand. (The same Gogi
Anand later directed Dev Anand's Darling Darling.) Gogi fixed a meeting between
Dev Anand and Shatrughan Sinha. Dev Anand gave him the role of a Pakistani
army officer in his film 'Prem Pujari'.
Dev Anand's 'Prem Pujari' was his debut as a director. Shatrughan
Sinha was very happy because of this, the first film was also of Navketan
banner. Shatrughan Sinha also felt that since Dev Anand often shoots his
films abroad, he will also get to go abroad for the shooting of this film! But
Shatrughan Sinha's entire shooting took place near Nashik and in Shirdi. As
Shatrughan Sinha's role in this movie is very small, the shooting was completed
in one day!
Due to the delay in the shooting of this film, Mohan Saigal's
'Saajan', the film he had signed before this film, was first released in 1969. Therefore,
'Saajan' is mentioned as Shatrughan Sinha's first film. Even though he
first shot for 'Prem Pujari', his first release was 'Saajan'. In both
these movies, Shatrughan Sinha's name does not appear in the initial credit
titles, but SP Sinha's name appears there! Because Shatrughan Sinha's real
name was Shatrughan Prasad Sinha. Instead of taking such a long name, he
took the short and casual name SP Sinha.
Later, a friend of Shatrughan Sinha told him, "Hey, what is
the name of the movie?" It doesn't sound like a movie name but it
sounds like the name of some government bamboo! So you change this name.” At
that time it was a fashion to take a film name. Jatin Khanna became Rajesh
Khanna. Ravi Kapoor was Jeetendra. So Shatrughan Prasad Sinha alias
SP Sinha also tried to change his name. But he was opposed from his own
house. This is because Shatrughan Sinha belongs to an aristocratic family
in Bihar. He had four brothers and these four brothers were named…Rama,
Lakshmana, Bharata and Shatrughna! So his brothers opposed the change of
name to Shatrughna saying, "Oh there are very few families in the world
where four brothers have names like this so please don't change this
name!"
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Respecting the request of his brothers, Shatrughan Sinha decided
to use his own name, taking the name Madhale Prasad. Only he made a small
change. The spelling of your name has changed slightly. Shatrughan
instead of Shatrughan! He just changed the letters A and N to N and A and
his pronunciation started to improve! And SP Sinha became Shatrughan
Sinha. It is mentioned in his autobiography.
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