We finally have the analysis of the most successful actors between 1990 – 1999. It’s a decade that marked the rise of the three Khans, while Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar were growing their fanbase and delivering quite a few hits in between.
Salman Khan leads in every category – highest net collections, success ratio, hit ratio and the best average per film. He also has the highest grosser and the most watched film of the 90s in Sooraj Barjatya’s Hum Aapke Hain Kaun.
Salman and Shah Rukh are the only two actors to average more than 10 crore plus per film.
Most number of films:
- Akshay Kumar – 42 films
- Ajay Devgn – 33 films
- Salman Khan – 29 films
- Shah Rukh Khan – 28 films
- Aamir Khan – 23 films
Total Net Collections for each actor between 1990 - 1999:
- Salman Khan – 375 crore
- Shah Rukh Khan – 327 crore
- Ajay Devgn – 221 crore
- Akshay Kumar - 196 crore
- Aamir Khan – 186 crore
Average net box office collections per film between 1990 - 1999
- Salman Khan – 12.9 crore
- Shah Rukh Khan – 11.7 crore
- Aamir Khan – 8.1 crore
- Ajay Devgn - 6.7 crore
- Akshay Kumar – 4.7 crore
Success Ratio i.e Above Average or better
- Salman Khan – 52%
- Shah Rukh Khan – 39%
- Ajay Devgn – 36%
- Aamir Khan – 35%
- Akshay Kumar - 24%
Hit Ratio i.e Hit or Better
- Salman Khan – 45%
- Shah Rukh Khan – 32%
- Aamir Khan – 22%
- Ajay Devgn – 18%
- Akshay Kumar - 10%
Note: We haven’t included two prolific actors – Sunny Deol and Govinda – in the list. Deol was a superstar, even though he wasn’t very consistent at the box office. He had quite a few hugely successful films like Border, Darr, Zindi and Ghatak, just to name a few. Govinda delivered several hits with David Dhawan and was one of the most popular and successful actors of the 90s. We are currently in the process of retrieving data from old film magazines. We are also working with a well-known trade analyst to rectify the 90s data, which isn’t as accurate as we’d want it to be at the moment.