Updated On: 21 November, 2023 01:29 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Tuesday Trivia: Kartik Aaryan changed his screen name from Kartik Tiwari in 2014 ahead of the release of his film Kaanchi

Kartik Aaryan
Kartik Aaryan is one of the most popular and sought after actors of the Hindi film industry today. He made his acting debut in 2011 with Luv Ranjan`s hit film `Pyaar ka Punchnama`. With the film and its sequel, Aaryan soon got the name of the `monologue boy` owing to his impressive performance of delivering a four minute long dialogue of a frustrated young man. However Kartik`s journey to stardom was not an easy one.
Despite being born in well to-do family in Gwalior, Kartik has had his share of struggles to make it big in the movie business. Another interesting fact about Kartik is that he changed his onscreen name from Kartik Tiwari to Kartik Aaryan in the initial years of his career. In his earlier films, he was credited as Kartik Tiwari. Talking about the same on The Kapil Sharma Show, Kartik explained, "Kartik Aaryan sounded better than Kartik Tiwari (laughs). Actually Aaryan was always my middle name. It is not something that happened suddenly. Before the release of my first film, I had asked the team to credit me as Kartik Aaryan but they missed out on doing so.” Kartik changed his name during the release of his third film titled Kanchi (2014) directed by Subhash Ghai.