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Celebs who changed their religion

India TV News Desk Published : Nov 19, 2013, 12:00 AM IST Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 07:45 AM IST

here are many stars both in Bollywood and Hollywood who have changed their religion. One of them is Sharmila Tagore the Bengali beauty. She converted to Islam when she married to Mansoor Ali Pataudi.

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Michael Jackson's decision of changing his religion was inspired from brother Jerem. He had converted to Islam.

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Hema Malini and Dharmendra's marriage when revealed problems for them. Therefore to legally prove their marriage the couple had converted to Islam.

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Actor Richard Gere was raised as Catholic, later he took up Buddhism and was much publicised. He now religiously practices Buddhism and is a pure vegetarian now.

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Bollywood actress Nargis took up Hinduism and changed her name to Nirmala Dutt when she married Sunil Dutt.

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Music maestro AR Rahman, who was born to a Hindu father and a Muslim mother, converted to Islam in 1989.

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Madonna caused stir when she changed to Kabbalah sect to embrace 'the one true worldwide faith of Methodism'. However she was later criticised for this act.

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Actress Nagma who was born to a Muslim mother and a Hindu father took up Christianity in the year 2007.

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George Harrison converted to Hinduism after getting involved in Hare Krishna movement during his visit to India.

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes's big reason to file for the divorce was the fact that Tom was a Scientology extremist and their relationship wasn't fazed by his religious beliefs.