Most successful Bollywood actors 1990 – 1999

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.

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248 Comments

  • @Sultan Gem-Why do you bring aamir here and bash him without any reason? Has any Aamir fan bashed SRK in this article? Don’t start unwanted fan war. Let Aamir be Aamir. If any of his fans insult other stars that’s different. But you seem to want to create fan-war between Aamir and SRK. Don’t do this.

  • Whole the day Loongiwalas call BOI is owned by Bhai. And now most of them are quoting BOI to save their so called galaxy Megastar aka global king…LOL.

    Dear Loongiwalas, acvording to the same BOI…..
    PRDP & SULTAN opening day>>>>hny opening day.

    Jai Ho lifetime>>>> don 2 & jthj lifetime.

    CE is just a blockbuster not ATBB.

    Jai Ho is a Semi hit not just an average.

    Why don’t you accept these all you bloody hypocrites????

  • @hrithik,@tiger,Yeah WE’RE accepting all the facts of boi.com,if you can accept bhai was behind KING KHAN in —-LAST DECADE+THIS DECADE+ALL TIME.

    and here is the proof

    KING KHAN IS NO.1 IN 90’S.

    http://www.boxofficeindia.com/hit-down-actor.php?txtYearlyData=1990-1999

    KING KHAN IS NO.1 IN LAST DECADE.

    http://www.boxofficeindia.com/hit-down-actor.php?txtYearlyData=2000-2009

    And last not but not least

    THE BIGGEST ACTOR+MEGASTAR OF ALL TIME—-THE KING OF BOLLYWOOD

    http://www.boxofficeindia.com/hit-down-actor.php

    ha ha ha ha,now it’s proved your lallu is nowhere near compared to the feet of THE KING OF BOLLYWOOD.

    @hrithik,WE agreed all the facts of that boi tells.because ALL WE want now is verdict.

    So bitter TRUTH by boi.com

    KING KHAN has—10 blockbuster

    also sallu has—-10 blockbuster

    Along with above facts.

    And so what if HNY didn’t crossed 200CR so as prdp also didn’t crossed 200CR,what about that?????,rofl.

    It doesn’t matter for all because what WE need is verdict,which boi.com did justice.

    Just like how until today you hated and criticized indicine for OPENING OF HNY and supported boi.com like a double standard chameleons.

    Then why can’t WE do the same now bikiniwales?????

    @hrithik,coming from THE FOOTPATH,TAKING RISK like A TRUE WARRIOR IN OFFBEAT GENRE IN CAREER’S BOT PEAK AND DOWN PERIOD,KING KHAN proved already THAT HE IS ABOVE ALL,no one can even touch even feet too.

    and in such a country like India where talent doesn’t matters and many talentless non actor can also becomes big star’s with countless masala films ,still in such a country THE BADSHAH/KING OF BOLLYWOOD GAVE HIGHEST CLASSICS FILMS SUCCESS with out showing masala elements in most of HIS MOVIES.

    THIS proved salman is a formula masaala method used non actor who was survived in supporting role in family+multistarrer movies in last two decades with out taking a simple and single risk.still he hasess success and much more flops than KING KHAN.

    KING KHAN—-SUCCESS>>>>>>>>>>failure

    lallu—-failure>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>success

    lallu is just like many of the talentless kid of a rich established filmy family.

    WHILE KING SRK IS THE BIGGEST BORN SELFMADE GLOBAL MEGASTAR WHO RULED EACH AND EVERY DECADE with out struggling a bit like A TRUE KING AND ROARED THROUGH OUT WHOLE CAREER.

    THE BUGGEST BORN ACTOR+MEGASTAR OF THE GENERATION.A BORN MEGALEGEND.

    sallu can’t even compared to HIS SUCCESS,HIS MONEY POWER,HIS POPULARITY,HIS CLASS,HIS TALENT,HIS WIT,IQ,KNOWLEDGE,PRESENCE OF MIND in upcoming 100000 birth.remind this always chaddiwale/bikiniwale,you bhojpuris has no aukat in front of US.

    GENERATION RULER KING SRK RULES BOLLYWOOD SINCE 1992-FOREVER.

  • According to Loongiwalas HAHK was a Madhuri movie. Maybe they have forgotten that Madhuri was also starred in dil toh pagal hai and Devdas. According to these morons logic both DTPH & Devdas were huge success only because of Madhuri, their global king has nothing to do with them… LOL.

  • @nich Nevla (nn)

    Hahaha… So according your Loongiwala logic blockbusters are not important to judge stardom only small hits matter. Fine, see in last decade Akki had more hits than srk while srk had more blockbusters than Akki. But according to your Loongiwala logic hits matter more than blockbusters. Hence, Akki>>>>>srk.

    LOL.

  • @Tiger the real rickshawala-It’s not number of hits moron, it’s the hit ratio and the success ratio. If you uneducated rickshawala know anything about math, you’ll know the difference. When did akki have a bigger hit ratio and success ratio than SRK? SRK is the only actor who is ruling the hit ratio and success ratio from all time perspective. And Lallu had to steal KKHH credit to prove himself a star. If we take SRK is having the worst phase now he still is achieving big openings. If Lallu was at all a star in the 90’s then why did his films received a beggers’ opening in the 2000 even behind Emraan Hashmi? Shame on you.

    And who is gonna take your calculation done by a rickshawala standard of hit ratios?
    http://www.indicine.com/movies/bollywood/successful-bollywood-actor-2010-2015/

    If Lallu fans try to take credit of 90’s by stealing KKHH credit then we will definitely say that SRK is ruling this decade and Varun Dhawan is a bigger star than Lallu.

  • @abhay malhotra:

    They all have started doing so after seeing your relentless blabbering on Bhai since last 6-7 months. If you shut your mouth then they will automatically stop bashing Aamir sir.

    #Anand didn’t say anything wrong. He just replied you in the way you deserve.

  • @sss , how do claim srk is no .1 for alltime and 90s .Have they updated Saajan ,sanambewafa,baaghi ,kurbaan (semihit/ave ) in boi archives ,pkp and maine pyar kiya .U always believe in Boi ,dont run till boi updates upto 1989 and add points he gains from Sultan is added.Thanks

  • @mekanik

    Whole the day Loongiwalas call BOI is owned by Bhai. And now most of you are quoting BOI to save your so called galaxy Megastar aka global king. You loongiwalas have crossed all the limit of Double Standard Giri & Chameleon Giri… LOL.

    Dear Loongiwala mekanik, according to the same BOI…..
    PRDP & SULTAN opening day>>>>hny opening day.

    Jai Ho lifetime>>>> don 2 & jthj lifetime.

    CE is just a blockbuster not ATBB.

    Jai Ho is a Semi hit not just an average.

    Hny opening weekend- only 92cr.

    Global king yet to touch 100cr mark on weekend, while Bhai gave 3.

    Why don’t you accept these all you bloody hypocrite????

    Where have you found that BOI said Megastar Bhai has only 10 blockbusters, you dumbistani??? Even according to BOI Bhai has 13 blockbusters. Check here http://www.boxofficeindia.com/actor.php?actorid=5.

    Hahaha…Calling him born Megastar, biggest megastar, galaxy Megastar!

    It seems….born Megastar is one who can’t surpass 80cr mark with a content rich movie that during festive weekend (eg- billu 2).

    Biggest MEGASTAR is one who has been struggling for a HGOTY for longgg 9 years.

    galaxy Megastar aka global king is one who runs away from Eid in fear of others.

    ROFL..

  • @sss, @NN
    Oh come on guys I m seeking your reply
    THEY HAVE INCLUDED KUCH KUCH KUCH HOTA HAI AS SALMAN’S MOVIE
    Comeon guys reply me

  • @nich Nevla (nn)

    You illiterate rickshaw mechanics’ logic only only hit ratio & success ratio describe stardom, blockbuster count have nothing to do. According to this Loongiwala logic Varun Dhawan is much bigger star than your global Kingkong. Because Varun’s hit ratio & success ratio is much better than global king…. Hahaha.

    Remove KKHH from Bhai’s career. Nothing will change be it success ratio, hit ratio or avg collections per movie. Still Bhai will be miles ahead of your hakila each and every category.

    The link you jerk have shared that article hasn’t included King’s mega disaster Billu 2 & Bhai’s ATBB SULTAN. After including those two movies the actual list will be of this ongoing decade…..

    Srk’s total no of releases- 8.
    Hit or better- 6 (except Dilwale & Fan).
    Hence, Hit ratio- 75%.
    Above avg+ – 7 movies (except Fan).
    Hence, success ratio- 85%.

    Bhai’s total no of releases- 11.
    Hit or better- 9 movies (except Veer & Jai Ho).
    Hence, hit ratio- 82%.
    Above avg or better- 10 movies (except Veer).
    Hence, success ratio- 92%.

    Hit ratio:
    Bhai (82%)>>>>> srk (75%).

    Success ratio:
    Bhai (92%>>>>>>srk (85%).

  • @Langotwala Tiger
    And @Indicine
    What do u want to prove? A 10 minutes role in 3 hours 20 minutes movie is called cameo aka Salman Khan. And what do u mean director of the movie? Karan may have said that because of formality…Even SRK thanked all the guests of Om Shanti Om, so should we include it in everyone’s star ranking?And is Filmfare, a private magazine award a barometer to measure sb’s role. I dont beleive in Filmfare even if SRK wins it

  • @tiger-the real chuha,1st of all your non actor took the credit/bheek even from K2H2 in which KING KHAN is no.1,see please don’t ignore that.

    then comes to BOI.com .so if you can take boi.com’s advantages according to your own desire then anytime can turn around @indicine again to save your bhabi’s back.then why the same WE can’t do ,tell me,rofl.

    You know what you played according to your desire so as WE’RE playing,so too much fun is going on you know,rofl.

    Blabbering about big hit,but till 2010,your bhabi doesn’t has even half the big hits compared to KING KHAN.thanks to Prabhu Deva for reaching in time,warna lallu toh aaj bheek maang raha hota,rofl.

    KING KHAN despite of taking risk,lallu can’t even comes closer to HIS SUCCESS.then just think if KING KHAN wouldn’t have taken risk,then,lallu would have did suicide,rofl.

    So write whatever.if you trying to take advantage of OPENING OF HNY only,then WE can take the advantages of ALL TIME BIGGEST CREDIT FROM BOI.COM.

    And yeah WE told that boi.com owned by lallu ,that’s completely true at least for raising for figures.but as far as verduct matters boi.com did justice,rofl.

    So cry bhojpuri,WE’RE enjoying,rofl.

    @ms,don’t cry.1989 is not coming under 90’s decade(1990-1999),lol.so mpk will be excluded from lallu’s career,still all time success wise KING KHAN will definitely ahead as HIS SUCCESS as HIS 1992’S success will be added too.

    And till 2010 ,sallu was no near to KING KHAN’S feet.similarly will happen till the end of THIS DECADE+CAREER,KING KHAN will thrash lallu ,at this time better you will not run away,rofl.

  • @Tiger the real rickshawala-No one updates success ratio or hit ratio after each and every movie release. These are updated after 5 years or 10 years. So give your rickshawala standard calculator a rest and come back after 2020. THis decade now means 2010-2015, and SRK’s hit ratio and success ratio is higher than Varun Dhawan.
    http://www.indicine.com/movies/bollywood/successful-bollywood-actor-2010-2015/

    Whoever tries to call Lallu a decade ruler of 90’s should be given this link, Lallu isn’t even ruling this decade, forget about 90’s. A 90’s decade ruler is sure to have bigger opening in the 2000’s whereas Lallu was even behind Emran Hashmi. If BOI has 4 or 5 glitches it’s acceptable, no site is flawless.

    @Resham- What reply do you want bro? Yes they have taken KKHH to Lallu’s credit. Also their verdict of other Lallu films aren’t correct. Lallu had back to back big flops in the 90’s. I believe in Filmfare but probably they gave Lallu that award cause he wasn’t getting any awards anywhere so they wanted to give some consolation to Lallu for the cameo in KKHH.

  • Ha ha ha. Look who is blabbering against Aamir? Fan of a star who is struggling to get a proper release date for his Rice beggar. Get this in your head strait @Sultan Gem. Your Buddha bhagoda is a fanless star. How much table fan collected? Only 80 cr? Itna low? Couldn’t beat 4 years old talaash. So who is fanless star. Of course srk. Aamir is Baap of both in fan following and stardom. Wait for Dangal and see how he will thrash all records within no time. Your fanless srk is struggling to get a solo release. No one even cares about fanless floprukh khan.

  • @sss bro dude be aware of this chameleon. @Sultan Gem is a lallu fan who is trying to create fan war once again between Aamir and srk fans. So don’t get trapped under his game. He just can’t see theach unity between us. So don’t read his comment and don’t consider him as srk fan. His ID is clearly indicating that he is salman fan.

    @NN don’t worry @Sultan Gem is a chameleon and salman fan.

  • @tiger-the real chuha,varun dhawan spent only 3-4 years in Bollywood.so your rikshawala logic tells you that you bikiniwale will compare him with A MEGASTAR WHO spent 24 years in bollywood?????,rofl.what a logic.really Nobel prize winning logic,rofl.

    yeah no doubt your beggar star has born on 2010,t why doesn’t mean you think the career of all star is over now.it is continuing and will continue and finally will be decided WHO will be the no.1.

    And if CE removed from ATBB,so as dabang too removed from ATBB list so enjoy.and not only that phultan too will not get atbb verdict,that’s another hard slap,rofl.

    Not only that HNY—-SUPER HIT
    but prdp—-hit

    and both the movies didn’t crossed 200CR,rofl.

    And all time opening wise in whole career,KING KHAN is far ahead than your bhojpuri star.

    so if you’ll take HNY’S opening according to boi figure,t hen you to also agree the bitter truth

    KING KHAN IS NO.1 IN 90’S,LAST DECADE,ALL TIME.

    so yeah it’s not a big deal for us to accept that,but what about you,tell me.you barked a lot that @indicime is unfair,n ow how can you trust @indicine overnight dumb rikshawala?????,rofl.

    And again count blockbusters of your lallu—-it’s clearly 10,rofl.I think you don’t know the count may be.

    And soon V-Z,CDI too will get BB verdict after DARR,DTPH,MB.so don’t worry lallu will always struggle to surpass KING KHAN’S BB too,rofl.

    And K2H2 bheek also didn’t given by boi.com to lallu,rofl.

    SO now IT’S proved KING KHAN IS THE BIGGEST ACTOR+MEGASTAR OF THE GENERATION.

  • Doesn’t matter how many blog forum comes and try to degrade srk but people including haters know bitter truth that srk is no. 1 Superstar for 90 and 2000 decade
    If salman is number star in 90s then anupam kher is beyond ranking
    Like I said before salman was below Sunil shetty in 1992-1996. From 97-1999 he was in better position but below ajay and akshay

    Reality is
    Srk is my miles biggest star of 90s
    DDLJ- atbb
    KKHH- atbb
    Ka- bb
    DTPH- bb
    Darr- bb
    Bazigar- bb
    Deewana- bb
    Pardes- super hit
    Yes boss- hit
    Ramjane- hit
    Rbdj – hit
    Chamatkar – semi hit/avg
    Khkn- semi hit
    Koyla, anjaam badshah – average (which bigger than many salman solo hit movie)
    Maya memsaab, army -avg

    Number of awards, classic performance, dominance over costar, screen space etc

    Reality of salman credit for HAHK
    Movie opened 9-10 lack all India and
    Before and after HAHK salman movies
    Love- flop
    Suryavanshi – desaster
    Nichay- desaster
    Jagruti – flop
    ELEL- desaster
    Dil Tera ashik- flop
    Chandramukhi – desaster
    HAHK – atbb (opened with 9 lac)
    Chand ka tukda- desaster
    Sangdil sanam- desaster
    Aaa – flop
    Veergati – flop
    Majhdar – desaster
    Khamoshi- flop

    I excluded Karan Arjun and Jeet in between just to show salman stardom without other star
    And
    Neither of his movie opened even decent number
    Srk flop movies like duplicate, Trimurti zamana deewana opened excellent. This is called stardom
    Today Boi is giving same virdict what I used to say 2-3 years back on indicine.
    And sunny govinda were never number one
    Second best was
    2. sunny/sanju
    3. Amir/govinda
    4. Ajay/akshay
    5. Saman (because of 98/99)

    Salman was rising star from 89-91 but emergence of sanju push him back, then ajay’s phool aur Kate made tough for salman among colledege students. From 2010 to till now nobody denies his stardom.
    Yeh public hai babu Sab janti hai

  • @fan pk & @Prashant : I have never provided any source of BOI unless someone has brought it up on Indicine. I dont care what BOI stats are I visit Indicine and trust them. Secondly, it was your friend @sss who all these years chanted BOI as Salman PR site and now shamelessly referring same site to defend his idol.

    @fan pk : I would appreciate if you show my single comment where I have provided any BOI links. I replied to @sss in his own language. If you cannot make sense out of comments then dont reply just ignore them.

  • @NN : Why no Blockbusters ? Because your bhagodi queen is incapable of giving consistent Blockbusters nowadays ? Listen you kiddo, the criteria does not keep changing as per advantage to SRK and his fans, at the end of the day the experts knows more than anyone. It was Salman in 90’s and then SRK few years back and now again Salman who is on top. Stop crying and complaining, if you do not have the courage to accept the fact and reality then dont just blabber for sake of arguments !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Resham : Where is KKHH mentioned in the article? Did Indicine state Salman’s stats including KKHH ? Stop crying like a hungry baby !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @sss : What if I prove you that you have called the same BOI as not trust worthy ? Will you accept the defeat and stop visiting Indicine ?

  • @hrithik ok dear but plzz… tell me on which bases you called srk manuplater ?? bcoz indicine ,taran adarsh ,koimoi and every trade sites quotes that HNY first day 44.97cr but you always denied ?? so it’s clearly show your’s double standard

  • @hrithik,what if I show you salman fans criticizing indicine for opening of KING KHAN and lifetime of some films!!!!!and what if I show you lallu fans praising so much for everything ,now what happens?????if I show you then will you leave this site forever?????suddenly you become the fan of indicine now?????,wow,rofl.

    Just like all the years you bikiniwale gone against producer/indicine figure in all these years but now suddenly you chameleons changed your colour.

    So if you now go against your boi.com and can change your colour like a shameless and can use each sources according to your benefit ,then why not the same WE SRKIAN’S can’t do?????just like @tiger-the real chuha chameleon did all these days ,sometimes he supported boi.com and now indicine.if you bhojpuritards don’tat know which site you trust,then why you’re questioning us,so keep showing what you can show.so as WE too will do.

    Talking about Blockbusters kiddo?????you know very well till 2010,yiur lallu is no even has half of the blockbusters KING KHAN has,thanks to Prabhu Deva for reaching in time,otherwise flop/disaster star lallu would have retired till now,rofl.

    At least KING KHAN never struggled with flops/disasters like your inconsistent disaster star ,at least HE can give HITS consistently that also by taking risk of CLASSICS.

    KING KHAN has HIGHEST CLASSIC BLOCKBUSTERS.lallu has maximum sadakchap classless blockbusters.

    KING KHAN IS MOST CONSISTENT BIGGEST ACTOR+MEGASTAR OF ALL TIME PROVED,RULES BOLLYWOOD SINCE 90S TO TILL NOW.

  • @Shameless hrithik- Lol, Lallu was in top in 90’s and now??? Then where is Lallu in this decade? http://www.indicine.com/movies/bollywood/successful-bollywood-actor-2010-2015/
    According to Indicine SRK is ruling this decade closely followed by Varun Dhawan. Where is Lallu. If blockbuster ratio is more important than hit ratio and success ratio then where is the blockbuster ratio of 90’s and 2000’s? Why would it be only important in 2010-15? Which website uses blockbuster ratio as a bigger parameter than success ratio and hit ratio? And why would “sss” leave indicine? We aren’t here because we believe Indicine is more trustworthy than BOI. We are only here to support SRK. We support SRK everywhere, however lousy the website is. No website on earth can be 100% credit and Indicine’s decade analysis has been so lousy that no one will take it as a reference, be it in 90’s, 2000’s or 2010’s. Have some shame Lallutard, Varun is ahead of Lallu in this decade.

  • @fan pk : When SRK fans call BB figures are manipulated why would not Salman fans call HNY opening collections as fake ?

    @sss : Stick to the topic dont run away ? Oh ! I forgot you are a fan of bhagodi who cannot take a stand and famous to change his own words (Intolerance) how can I expect you to stick to the topic. Forget it tere bass ki nahi. One more thing I said I will prove you wrong not all SRK fans, so if you have little guts try to prove me wrong and do not talk about entire Salman fan base you moron !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    @ Nangaa Naach aka NN : Why do I feel that you and @moronic sss are same trying out the impostor strategy to counter attack from Salman fans ? Anyways, you do not deserve a sensible reply when you have little or no brain to understand. Keep chanting Flop, disaster or struggler for Salman real people with real money have been making his movies successful with 3 cr+ foot falls unlike fake fans of SRK who gift wrapped him Flop for a movie which he made exclusively for his fans. You keep increasing YouTube views and hail YouTube king or keep winning internet polls for SRK. 3 crs foot falls is a life time dream for SRK to achieve even with Festive release !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @hrithik-Ahahaa, so shameless hrithik has a big brain with which he supports a criminal non-actor’s hoards of trash movies(with the exception of BB and 2/3 others) and a dumb-head who can’t even talk properly in public and that’s why some rickshawala fans hero-worship him. The 3 crore+ footfall is more achievable than the life-time dream of ruling as long as 3 consecutive decades (as SRK has done) without tasting a bad phase as long as our Lallu had to go through hungering for a single average (forget hit) film!!!

  • @nanga naach

    Let’s make a brief comparison of this ongoing decade (2010 onwards) for both Megastar Bhai and struggler global king.

    Hit ratio:
    Bhai (82%)>>>>> srk (75%).

    Success ratio:
    Bhai (92%>>>>>>srk (85%).

    Total collections:
    Bhai 1978cr>>>>srk 1194cr.

    Avg per movie:
    Bhai 180cr>>>>>srk 135cr.

    Bhai is miles ahead of your 2rs Loongiwala in all departments. Still how does your AUKAATless Overactor is ahead of Bhai in this decade???

    P.S- Here I haven’t included blockbuster count as we all know your global king’s inability of delivering blockbusters.

    You loggerheaded dumb why don’t you better fight with Varun Dhawan & Arujn kapur fans??? Because Varun, Arjun & global king all are struggling to surpass 80cr mark lifetime.

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