Highest Earning Stars in Bollywood

Forbes India recently released the ‘Celebrity 100’ list. Along with it, they also released an estimation of how much a particular celebrity earned in the period between October 2011 and September 2012.

It was Shahrukh Khan, with 23 brand endorsements, who topped the Highest Earning stars list with Rs 202.83 crores in a year. SRK was followed by Akshay Kumar (179.95 crores), Salman Khan (144.2 crores), cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni (135.16 crores) and Amitabh Bachchan (116.3 crores).

Full list of the Top 100 Highest earning stars, below. Bollywood stars highlighted in brown.

• 1. Shahrukh Khan – 202.83 crores
• 2. Akshay Kumar – 179.85 crores
• 3. Salman Khan – 144.2 crores
• 4. Mahendra Singh Dhoni – 135.16 crores
• 5. Amitabh Bachchan – 116.3 crores
• 6. Sachin Tendulkar – 97.46 crores
• 7. Kareena Kapoor – 73.47 crores
• 8. Ranbir Kapoor – 71.17 crores
• 9. Hrithik Roshan – 68.67 crores
• 10. Katrina Kaif – 65.25 crores
• 11. Saif Ali Khan – 64.17 crores
• 12. Ajay Devgn – 54.65 crores
• 13. Virat Kohli – 47.27 crores
• 14. Aamir Khan – 42.5 crores
• 15. Mahesh Babu – 42.25 crores
• 16. Priyanka Chopra – 39.67 crores
• 17. Vijay – 38.46 crores
• 18. Suriya – 35.75 crores
• 19. John Abraham – 34.6 crores
• 20. A R Rahman – 32.92 crores
• 21. Virender Sehwag – 27.73 crores
• 22. Gautam Gambhir – 26.94 crores
• 23. Bipasha Basu – 26.83 crores
• 24. Pawan Kalyan – 26.33 crores
• 25. Emraan Hashmi – 26.12 crores
• 26. Deepika Padukone – 25.65 crores
• 27. Madhuri Dixit – 23 crores
• 28. Anushka Sharma – 21 crores
• 29. Vikram – 20.45 crores
• 30. Abhishek Bachchan – 19.4 crores
• 31. N T Rama Rao Jr – 19 crores
• 32. Kajol – 18.9 crores
• 33. Shahid Kapoor – 18.35 crores
• 34. Farhan Akhtar – 16.6 crores
• 35. Yuvraj Singh – 16.14 crores
• 36. Sanjay Dutt – 15.7 crores
• 37. Sonu Nigam – 15.56 crores
• 38. Ravi Teja – 15.5 crores
• 39. Imran Khan – 14.85 crores
• 40. Arjun Rampal – 14.75 crores
• 41. Ajith Kumar – 14 crores
• 42. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan – 13.8 crores
• 43. Saina Nehwal – 13.17 crores
• 44. Shilpa Shetty – 12.6 crores
• 45. Jeev Milkha Singh – 12.45 crores
• 46. Rohit Shetty – 12.4 crores
• 47. Vidya Balan – 12.32 crores
• 48. Rohit Sharma – 12.23 crores
• 49. Viswanathan Anand – 12.1 crores
• 50. Nagarjuna – 11.79 crores
• 51. Karisma Kapoor – 11.55 crores
• 52. Sonakshi Sinha – 10.7 crores
• 53. Shreya Ghoshal – 10.5 crores
• 54. Pritam – 10.35 crores
• 55. Mithun Chakraborty – 10.13 crores
• 56. Karan Johar – 10 crores
• 57. Amish Tripathi – 10 crores
• 58. Sunidhi Chauhan – 9.81 crores
• 59. Genelia D’Souza Deshmukh – 9.55 crores
• 60. Boman Irani – 8.98 crores
• 61. Suresh Raina – 8.94 crores
• 62. Rahul Dravid – 8.31 crores
• 63. Imtiaz Ali – 8.25 crores
• 64. Kangana Ranaut – 8.2 crores
• 65. Vishal-Shekhar – 8.2 crores
• 66. Harbhajan Singh – 8.19 crores
• 67. Zaheer Khan – 7.06 crores
• 68. Malaika Arora Khan – 5.75 crores
• 69. Sukhwinder Singh – 5.65 crores
• 70. Sania Mirza – 5.3 crores
• 71. Ritesh Deshmukh – 5.1 crores
• 72. Mohit Chauhan – 4.93 crores
• 73. Sonam Kapoor – 4.5 crores
• 74. Madhur Bhandarkar – 4.5 crores
• 75. Leander Paes – 4.41 crores
• 76. Preity Zinta – 4.4 crores
• 77. Terrence Lewis – 4.25 crores
• 78. Mahesh Bhupathi – 4.06 crores
• 79. Ram Kapoor – 3.5 crores
• 80. Remo D’Souza – 3.5 crores
• 81. Sakshi Tanwar – 3.45 crores
• 82. Mary Kom – 3.32 crores
• 83. Chetan Bhagat – 3.29 crores
• 84. Vijender Singh – 3.2 crores
• 85. Shaan – 3.08 crores
• 86. Gagan Narang – 2.7 crores
• 87. Ronit Roy – 2.63 crores
• 88. Sunny Leone – 2.6 crores
• 89. Cyrus Broacha – 2.55 crores
• 90. Rohan Bopanna – 2.29 crores
• 91. Kapil Sharma – 2.25 crores
• 92. Mona Singh – 2.25 crores
• 93. Kailash Kher – 2.23 crores
• 94. Anurag Kashyap – 1.75 crores
• 95. Vir Das – 1.6 crores
• 96. Kirron Kher – 1.55 crores
• 97. Ashwin Sanghi – 0.98 crores
• 90. Esha Gupta – 0.94 crores
• 99. Robin Sharma – 0.45 crores
• 100. Ravinder Singh – 0.42 crores

Source: Forbes India