Beauty
With
Brains
After
completing
her
schooling
from
The
Cathedral
and
John
Connon
School,
Kiara
pursued
a
Mass
Communications
degree
from
Jai
Hind
College
and
also
did
acting
courses
before
foraying
into
films.
How
Aamir
Khan's
'3
Idiots'
Changed
Her
Life
The
actor
revealed
in
an
interview,
"From
the
time
I
remember,
I
wanted
to
be
an
actress.
I
was
Miss
Wanting
Attention
all
the
time.
If
my
mother
was
taking
pictures,
I
never
wanted
her
to
take
the
camera
off
me
ever.
When
I
look
at
my
videos
from
when
I
was
even
just
two,
I
would
be
playing
ballerina."
She
further
revealed,
"It
sounds
clichéd,
but
my
father
watched
'3
Idiots'
and
decided
that
he
would
let
his
kids
do
whatever
they
were
passionate
about." And
that's
how
Kiara's
Bollywood
dreams
came
true.
Kiara's
First
Big
Break
"I
did
short
courses
of
acting
with
Anupam
Kher
and
Roshan
Taneja
and
started
meeting
the
right
people
through
my
mom.
I
gave
a
few
auditions
and
was
getting
restless
when
I
got
a
call
from
Anuradha
Patel
(my
second
nani's
daughter)
asking
me
to
send
my
pictures
to
one
of
her
friends,
Kabir
Sadanand,
who
was
making
a
film
with
newcomers.
I
auditioned
and
bagged
my
first
role
in
Fugly," the
actor
recalled
in
a
TOI
interview.
What's
In
The
Name?
Not
many
people
know
that
Kiara's
real
name
is
Aaliya
Advani.
Speaking
about
it,
the
actor
revealed,
"Aaliya
is
my
first
name.
Salman
Khan
suggested
me
to
change
it
because
of
Alia
Bhatt
because
there
can't
be
two
actresses
with
the
same
name
in
Bollywood.
He
suggested
the
change,
but
‘Kiara' is
the
name
that
I
chose.
Now
even
my
parents
have
started
to
call
me
Kiara."
Kiara's
Gotta
Thank
Priyanka
Chopra
For
This
Reason
"When
I
entered
the
industry,
Alia
Bhatt
was
already
an
established
superstar.
So,
I
decided
to
change
my
name
from
Alia
to
Kiara
Advani
which
was
inspired
by
Priyanka
Chopra's
character
from
the
film,
Anjaana
Anjaani."
"Right
from
her
accent
to
her
style,
everything
inspired
me
to
use
that
name.
I
would
love
to
use
the
same
name
for
my
daughter
in
the
future
but
I
then
thought
that
it
was
best
to
use
the
name,
‘Kiara'
for
myself
and
establish
the
same
in
the
industry," she
further
confessed.