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THE NAMESAKE: Rani Mukherji and John Abraham should go in for a name change for a change in luck.

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New Delhi: Shakespeare wrote, 'What's in a name?', but very few Bollywood stars seem interested in understanding what the famous playwrite meant by saying this, for a lot of stars are changing their names for better luck.

Here are a few who we think should go in for name change immediately:

• On top of our list is Rani Mukherjee.

  Professionally 2007 was her year of the hattrick — Tara Rum Pum, Laga Chunari Mein Daag and Saawariya all bombed. If these daags (blotches) weren't enough, on personal front, it was will she, won't she get married to producer-director Aditya Chopra. But again it was all smoke and no fire there. And now she is caught in a legal hassle involving the land she bought in Shirdi.

  This is one actor who immediately needs to call numerologist Sanjay Jumani to figure out if Rani spelt with a double "e" instead of an "i" will help her in any way.

• In second place is actor John Abraham

  He was the common link some of the major films that failed to make even a ripple at the box office this year — Salam-e-ishq, Water, No Smoking and Goal.

  The rumour is that John is now asking Aditya Chopra to cast him in the next Dhoom film to end his doom days. Along with the three expressions that he has — a cute dimple, the frown lines and the bike driving talent — some acting classes might be of help plus of course with a session with tarot card reader Sunita Menon.

• In second position is director Sanjay Leela Bhansali

  After the debacle of his blue film set in neverland, Saawariya, the industry and trade pundits have already given him a new name — It's no more Sanjay Leela Bhansali, but Sanjay Neela Bhansali. The director just needs to call up astrologer Bejan Daruwala to figure out if it is the right name for him to get over his blues.