Top 10 Indian Actors and their Salaries
1. Rajinikanth
Remuneration: 60cr to 150cr per movie
Rajinikanth has been a Tamil cinema megastar since the 1970s. He is one of Asia’s highest-paid actors. He is best known for his work in Tamil films, but he has also appeared in Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, and American films. He grew up in Bangalore, India, and worked as a bus driver.
2. Shah Rukh Khan
Remuneration: 100cr per movie
Shah Rukh Khan, born on November 2, 1965, is an Indian actor, film producer, and television personality who works primarily in Hindi films. He has been dubbed “King of Bollywood” and “King Khan” and has appeared in over 80 films, winning numerous awards, including 14 Filmfare Awards. The Indian government honored him with the Padma Shri, and the French government honored him with the Order des Arts et des Letters and the Legion of Honor. Khan has a sizable fan base in Asia and the Indian diaspora worldwide. He has been described as one of the world’s most successful film stars in terms of audience size and income.
3. Prabhas
Remuneration: 100cr to 180cr per movie
Prabhas Venkata Suryanarayana Prabhas Raju (born 23 October 1979), better known as Prabhas, is an Indian actor who primarily works in Telugu cinema. Prabhas, one of Indian cinema’s highest-paid actors, has appeared three times on Forbes India’s Celebrity 100 list since 2015, based on his earnings and popularity. He has been nominated for seven Filmfare Awards South, as well as the Nandi and SIIMA awards.
4. Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan was born in Mumbai on March 14, 1965. He is known as one of India’s most successful Bollywood actors. “Mr. Perfectionist of Bollywood.” With recent successes in both the Indian and Chinese film markets, he has risen to become one of the world’s most powerful.
Khan has received numerous awards, including nine Filmfare Awards, four National Film Awards, and an AACTA Award, as well as an Academy Award nomination for one of his films. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2003 and the Padma Bhushan in 2010, and he was given an honorary title by the Chinese government in 2017.
5. Salman Khan
Remuneration: 100cr to 150cr per movie
Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan Salman Khan (born December 27, 1965) is a Hindi film actor, film producer, and television personality. Khan has received numerous awards during his thirty-year film career, including two National Film Awards as a film producer and two Filmfare Awards as an actor. He is regarded as one of Indian cinema’s most commercially successful actors. Forbes named him to their 2015 list of the World’s Highest-Paid Celebrity Entertainers. Khan was the highest-ranking Indian on Forbes’ 2018 list of the World’s Top-Paid 100 Celebrity Entertainers, ranking 82nd with $37.7 million in earnings. Since 2010, he has also hosted the reality show Big Boss.
6. Akshay Kumar
Remuneration: 70cr to 115cr per movie
Akshay Kumar (born 9 September 1967), known professionally as Akshay Kumar, is an Indian-born naturalized Canadian actor and film producer who works in Hindi cinema. Kumar has appeared in over 100 films and received numerous awards, including a National Film Award for Best Actor and two Filmfare Awards. Kumar is among the most prolific actors in Hindi cinema. Almost half of his films were commercial successes.
7. Amitabh Bachchan
The net worth is $455 million.
Amitabh Bachchan (born 11 October 1942) is a Hindi film actor, film producer, television host, occasional playback singer, and former politician. He is regarded as one of the most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was the most dominant actor in the Indian film industry; French director François Truffaut referred to him as a “one-man industry.” Big B has since appeared in over 200 Indian films in a career spanning more than five decades and has received numerous accolades, including four National Film Awards as Best Actor, and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for a lifetime achievement, and numerous awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies. He has won sixteen Filmfare Awards and has received the most nominations in any major acting category, with 42 total nominations.
8. Hrithik Roshan
Remuneration: 75cr to 100cr per movie
Hrithik Roshan, who was born on January 10, 1974, is an Indian film actor. He has played a variety of roles and is well-known for his dancing abilities. He is one of India’s highest-paid actors and has won numerous awards, including six Filmfare Awards, four of which were for Best Actor. He has appeared on Forbes India’s Celebrity 100 several times since 2012, based on his income and popularity.
9. Allu Arjun
Remuneration: 60cr to 100cr per movie
Allu Arjun (born April 8, 1982) is an Indian film actor who primarily works in Telugu films. He is one of South India’s highest-paid actors and is also known for his dancing. He has received numerous honors, including five Filmfare Awards South and five Nandi Awards.
Allu Arjun made his film debut with Gangotri in 2003. He shot to fame as the lead in Sukumar’s cult classic Arya (2004), for which he received a Nandi Special Jury Award. He established his reputation with the action films Bunny (2005) and Desamuduru (2006). He won his first Filmfare Award for Best Actor-Telugu for his performance in the romantic drama Parugu in 2008.
10. Ajay Devgan
Remuneration : 60cr to 125cr per movie/series
Vishal Veeru Devgan (born 2 April 1969) is an Indian film director, actor, and producer who primarily works in Hindi cinema. Devgan has appeared in over 100 films and received numerous awards, including three National Film Awards and four Filmfare Awards. In 2016, the Indian government awarded him the Padma Shri, the country’s fourth-highest civilian honor.
