This is a question that gets asked quite frequently in the weekly ‘Ask Indicine’ Question and Answer session. So to end the debate once and for all, we analyse the Top 6 most successful actors in the last decade.
Most number of films:
- Akshay Kumar – 42 films
- Ajay Devgn – 39 films
- Salman Khan – 32 films
- Shah Rukh Khan – 21 films
- Hrithik Roshan – 14 films
- Aamir Khan – 9 films
Total Net Collections for each actor between 2000 – 2009:
- Akshay Kumar - 983 crore
- Shah Rukh Khan - 678 crore
- Aamir Khan - 585 crore
- Salman Khan - 581 crore
- Ajay Devgn - 557 crore
- Hrithik Roshan - 481 crore
Average net box office collections per film between 2000 – 2009
- Aamir Khan – 65 crore
- Hrithik Roshan - 34.35 crore
- Shah Rukh Khan - 32.29 crore
- Akshay Kumar - 23.40 crore
- Salman Khan - 18.15 crore
- Ajay Devgn – 14.28 crore
Success Ratio i.e Above Average or better (probably the most important, because it’s the percentage of films that recovered investment)
- Aamir Khan – 78%
- Shah Rukh Khan - 67%
- Hrithik Roshan - 43%
- Akshay Kumar - 36%
- Salman Khan – 31%
- Ajay Devgn - 13%
Hit Ratio i.e Hit or Better
- Aamir Khan – 67%
- Shah Rukh Khan – 57%
- Hrithik Roshan - 43%
- Akshay Kumar - 26%
- Salman Khan – 19%
- Ajay Devgn - 10%
In conclusion, when it comes to Top 3 actors of the previous decade, it’s between Aamir, SRK, Hrithik and Akshay.
Shah Rukh maintained a very high success and hit ratio throughout the decade, even though he has featured in more than twice the number of films as Aamir.
Aamir’s stature and box office total grew quite significantly towards the end of the decade because of films like Ghajini and 3 Idiots. He didn’t have a release for four years between Dil Chahta Hai (August 2001) and Mangal Pandey (August 2005).
Salman was inconsistent, many of his films were huge disasters. As a solo star, he didn’t have much to show apart from a few films like No Entry, Partner, Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya and Wanted.
Akshay enjoyed the best phase of his career in 2006 and 2007, when he delivered several back-to-back hit films. He tops the ‘total net collections’ for the decade. His average per film and success ratio isn’t too bad either.
Hrithik Roshan went through a career low after a stellar start to his career, but made a comeback and remained consistent after Koi Mil Gaya.
Ajay Devgn was poor throughout. Both his success and hit ratio were well below 15%. His hits were Bhoot, Masti, Golmaal and Golmaal Returns.
WTH only for a particulat time period??? Let’s make a brief comparison between Bhai & srk’s whole career and make it “Doodh ka doodh aur paani ka paani”….
HGOTY:
Bhai- 9.
Srk- only 4.
Bhai>>>>>>srk.
HGOTD:
Bhai- 2.
Srk- ZERO (LOL)
Bhai>>>>>>srk.
ATBB:
Bhai- 4.
Srk- 2
Bhai>>>>>>srk.
Blockbuster+:
Bhai- 12.
Srk- only 8
Bhai>>>>>>srk
300cr grosser:
Bhai- Bajrangi Bhaijaan.
Srk- yet to touch even 230cr mark.
Bhai>>>>>>srk.
200cr+ grossers:
Bhai- 3.
Srk- 2.
Bhai>>>>>>srk.
100cr+ grossers:
Bhai- 9.
Srk- only 6.
Bhai>>>>>>srk.
Back to back blockbusters:
Bhai- 5.
Srk- only 2.
Bhai>>>>>>srk
Back to HGOTY:
Bhai- 3.
Srk- never
Bhai>>>>>>srk.
Bhai never failed to surpass 100cr mark since he has joined the club. But srk failed big time with Fan.
Srk has been struggling for a HGOTY since 9 years. Bhai has never seen such ” BUREY DIN “.
Also his lion’s share of hits are yrf-dhama products. While Bhai always works with newcomer directors and unknown banners.
Bhai is miles ahead of him in each and every department…!!!
@ulluji because only a superstar can give a 32 crores opening on a festive period in india today. Ajay fans ever since have always considered akki behind. You look at the average movies of Ajay here Apaharan, Atb, Company, Gangajal Kaal Yuva all them are above average and even semi hits. Why indicine!? Why? a particular fan also tell you to remove Mr Fraud from Ajay Sir movie list you still left it. Shame
would love to see and expecting the same kinda article from indicine for 1990-2000
@Indicine But Mr Fraud collection is not in box office records and Almost half of Ajays
Film verdict. Reply
Indicine,completely agree with you in case of Salman Khan as Tere Naam was released in 1937,Mujhse Shaadi Karoge in 1941,Baghban in 1954 & Garv in 1962.
success nd hit ration in front of u……..aamir nly with 9 films collection more than 500 nd akki 42 films 900….it clearly shows where aamir stands……….nd this decade also his collection is top….os nd domestic both..
@all jokertards:
Let’s compare Bhai & Akki’s whole career briefly. Sab doodh ka doodh aur paani ka paani ho jayega!!!!
HGOTY:
Bhai- 9
Akki- ZERO (lol)
ATBB:
Bhai- 4
Akki- again ZERO
Blockbusters+:
Bhai- 12
Akki- 2
HGOTD:
Bhai- 2
Akki- jisse 1 HGOTY & 1 ATBB nahi ban sakta wo kya khak HGOTD dega.!!!
ATHG:
Bhai- HAHK
Akki- jisse 1 HGOTY nahi banta usse ATHG ummid bemani hain.!!!
300cr grosser:
Bhai: bajrangi bhaijaan.
Akki- isse toh 150cr bhi par nahi hota!!!
200cr+ grossers:
Bhai- 3
Akki- again ZERO…LOL.
100cr grossers:
Bhai- 9
Akki- only 5.
Average per movie:
Bhai- 36.3cr
Akki- 26.2cr.
Clean hits:
Bhai- 27
Akki- 21
Disasters-
Bhai- 3
Akki- 13.
An open challenge to all jokertards, Maine Jo bhi likha hain usme se ek bhi fact ko galat savit karke batau I will accept that Akki is bigger star than Ranbir, Ranveer, Kangna etc.
###Data- according to #indicine.
@Ajay-Salman Fan
First 5 years? As far as I remember Ajay debuted in the early 90s not 2000s
And Sunil Shetty was always below Akshay Kumar. Mohra, Sapoot, etc are the evidence. Sunil never gave any top grosser on his own, while Akki gave every year except 1993, 1997-98.
No.1 film in last decade
1, Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai
2, Gadar Ek Prem Katha
3, Devdas
4, Koi Mil Gaya
5, Veer Zaara
6, No Entry
7, Dhoom:2
8, Om Shanti Om
9, Ghajini
10, 3 Idiots
So Decade belongs to Hrithik Roshan with three no.1 films with two more Blockbuster and Second srk equally No.1 films with one more Blockbuster and then Aamir Khan
sultan the tiger LOL…
stop kidding and cracking jokes here…
as Solo VeerZaara, CDI & RNBDJ were blockbuster…
which blockbuster salman gave last decade with solo ??
even his hits include multi starrer like NO ENTRY & PARTNER :P
if u talk about multistarrer then how many blockbusters Salman is having as solo in 90s and 20s ???
HAHK, HSSH, KA, SAAJAN, HDDS, NO ENTRY these all are multistarrer Blockbuster of Salman…
but Salman never gives credit to his costar that’s why you feel like it was his solo movie ;)
Salman and Srk career comparison in 90’s:-
Salman Total movies 31 (from 1989- 1999) (From Debuted)
ATBB – 3 (This does not include KKHH)
Blockbuster – 1
Superhit – 2
Hits – 8
Semi-Hit – 1
Average – 2 (It include Above and Below average too)
Flops – 14
HGOTY – 4 (1989, 1991, 1994, 1999)
Srk Total movies 28 (from 1992 – 1999) (From Debuted)
ATBB – 2
Blockbuster – 1
Supaer-Hit – 2
Hits – 4
Average – 7 (It include Above and Below average too)
Flops – 12
HGOTY – 2 (1995, 1998)
This clearly shows that Salman was way ahead from Srk in term of Hits, ATBB, HGOTY and number of flops are also almost equal (since Salman did more movies)…..
Hit ratio of Megastar Salman khan in his worst phase i.e last entire decade is 19%
and Salman fans as you say this is the bad phase of SRK soo it’s ok please calculate SRK’s hit ratio in his bad phase and compare it with your star’s bad phase…
and see where Salman khan stands and where SRK does :P
lol see how indicine is trying to save SRK! Shame on Indicine. According to collection it’s Akki and according to success and hit it’s Aamir but still saving SRK shamelessly…. A Big Shame on you if SRK had done more film than Aamir then Akki also did more film than SRK so how can u say SRK was better than Aamir. if u r counting film of SRK then count of akki too. if u r saying SRK bcz he did more than aamir then say akki better than srk bcz akki did more than SRK.
Aamir has given biggest of hits.. None has given bigger hits than him..
3i , PK , D3 , Ghajini , RH , Dil ( ATBB )
4 Industry Hits highest among all ..
8 Blockbusters Overseas
10 Blockbusters in India
Highest success ratio
Highest no.of films in IMDb
Highest civilian award Padma Bhushan
4 National awards
4 All.time Grossers worldwide
4 all time Grosses Overseas
No flop since 2000
Megastar for a reason – Aamir Khan salute
Aamir no.1
Salman in his bad phase 19% hit ratio..SRK in his bad phase
MNIK,R1,D2,JTHJ,CE (ATG IN BAD PHASE),HNY,DILWALE,FAN
Total movies-8
clean hits or better in domestic-6
hit ratio- 75%
See the difference if you can
Salman- 19%
SRK- 75%
in their respective bad phases ;)
Look at the nett collection…Akshay Kumar is way ahead of everyone…
Updated version of last comment
Srk’s all films are belong to multistarer. So he is not deserve the decade 2000-2009.
Decade 2000-2009 is belong to Aamir and Hrithik, because they gave solo blockbusters through out the decade 2000-2009.
Decade 1990-1999 – Salman > srk
Decade 2000-2009 – Hrithik > Aamir
Decade 2010-2019 – Salman > all/ one man decade
salman fan you said “and number of flops are also almost equal (since Salman did more movies)”
Wish you’d have applied same logic when providing ATBB/BB/hits and as Salman spent 3-4 more years than SRK ;)
Lol…. Aamir have less failure than Srk bcz he did less film than srk (according to srkcine)… then why don’t u say that srk have less failure than Salman bcz srk did less film than Salman??? now everyone can say it’s not indicine it’s SRKcine…
It’s a phase where Bhaijaan was surrounded with his personal problems… Still delivered successful films and HGOTY… If any other star in his shoes would have disappeared down n dusted… But it’s Megastar SALMAN KHAN rose like a Phoenix from the ashes to that level where no one come close to his Megastardom that he has currently…
Lots of qustn also asked ..about ..1990 decade ..u should ..post the article ..also..!! As well as ..2009 to 2015..!! If …this is possible..so..!! Many rzn behind of srk sir ahed of all actor in..2000 to 2009 bcuz..
Big banner.., big production , big direction ..u know what i want to say like if ..salman sir ..do ..movie with raj kumar hirni , kabir khan , karan johar ..and get ..big banner and big solo relse ..then also salman sir sucess ration..is very good..!! Lots of think ..to make no 1…but this decade ..as well as 1990 decade belongs to salman sir …!
@ tiger,WTH srk has not 4 Hgoty,he has 5 Hgoty.also he have 3 Atbb.I know u deliberately do these mistakes to degrade Srk.
@aamir_khan rules
Aamir Khan rules!!!!!!!!
2000-2009 @aamir_khan’s 9 films earned 585 crores while HAKLU’s 21 films earned 678 crores. Just 93 crores more. LOL!
Let’s compare biggest grosser of Bhai & bhagoda of each decade….
90’s:
Bhai- 69cr (HAHK)
Srk- 61cr (DDLJ)
Bhai>>>>>srk.
2000’s:
Bhai- 140cr (Dabang)
Srk- 83cr (rnbdj)
Bhai>>>>>srk.
Ongoing decade:
Bhai- 321cr (BB).
Srk- 227cr (CE).
Bhai>>>>>>srk.
P.S- who thinks that previous decade ended in 2009 check here http://www.indicine.com/movies/bollywood/lowest-grossers-of-actors-this-decade-2011-2015/
One Of Best Artical Of Indicine.
According to Indicine the bigger star means the star with higher succes ratio. But for majority of the Indians bigger star means the star with more no. of BBs and ATBBs, the one with more stardom.
Had Srk more BBs and Salman better succes ratio then they would have definately defined the bigger star as the one with more BBs. Had Salman ahead in both then they would have defined bigger star as the one with more filmfare awards.
It’s okay. Keep going Indicine.
Afterall Indicine is not world. Fan badely flopped even after the huge promotions by Indicine.
BOLLYWOOD HAS ONE SUCH MEGASTAR WHO MADE HIS OWN JOURNEY AND GAVE SUCCESS IN ALMOST EVERY YEAR LIKE A TRUE MEGASTAR AND HE IS NON OTHER THAN THE KING OF BOLLYWOOD—-KING SRK.
FROM START TO END HE NEVER struggled WHO entered the industry with out any filmy relations like salman,amir did.
1992—-DEEWANA(DEBUT)—-HIT—-1
1993—-BAAZIGAR—-SUPER HIT,DARR—SUPER HIT,BLOCKBUSTER(recent boi)—-2
1994—-KHKN—-HIT—-1
1995—–KA—-BB,DDLJ—-ATBB—-2
1996—-CHAAHAT—-ABOVE AVERAGE(NEW BOI),army(cameo apperance)—-HIT(this is not counting in his last so no number)—-0
1997—-YES BOSS—-HIT(RECENT BOI),PARDES—-SUPER HIT,DTPH—-BB—-3
1998—-DUPLICATE—-ABOVE AVERAGE(NEW BOI),K2H2—-ATBB—-1
1999—-BAADSHAH—-SEMI HIT(RECENT BOI)—-1
2000—-JOSH—-HIT,MB—-BB—-2
2001—-K3G—-BB—-1
2002—-HTHS—-ABOVE AVERAGE(NEW BOI),DEVDAS—-SUPER HIT—-1
2003—-CHALTE CHALTE—-HIT,KHNH—-SUPER HIT—-2
2004—-MHN—-SUPER HIT, VZ—-BB—-2
2005—-PAHELI(FLOP)—-0
2006—-KANK—-HIT,DON—-HIT—-2
2007—-CDI—-BB,OSO—-BB—-2
2008—-RNBDJ—-BB—-1
2009—-KING SRK HAS NO FILMS THIS YEAR—-0
2010—-MNIK—-HIT—-1
2011—-RA ONE—- HIT,DON2—-HIT—-2
2012—-JTHJ—-SUPER HIT—-1
2013—-CE—-ATBB—-1
2015—-DILWALE—-SEMI HIT—-1
2016—-FAN (FLOP)—-remained to be seen
THIS IS WHAT IS A MEGASTAR’S CAREER.
And this is the career graph from START TO END.
And HE unable to give SUCCESS in 1996—-abobe average
2005—-AWARD WINNING CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED PAHELI.
2009—-no film
2016—-FAN(BEST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR).Though DEAR JINDAGI AS EXTENDED GUEST APPERANCE AWAITED.
so no one can match THE GIANT MEGA CONSISTENT CAREER OF KING SRK,IT’S THE REASON WHY HE IS CALLED THE DISPUTED KING OF BOLLYWOOD.
So during 2000-2009,HE has more than double success than KING SRK ,then how amir is no.1?????this is not at all fair comparison.
Amir always taken risk with masla added classics like rdb,lagaan but KING OF BOLLYWOOD always taken risk with NON-ENTERTANING COMPLETE OFFBEAT LIKE—-ASHOKA,PAHELI,SWADES,CDI,MNIK,FAN.
No one can take risk like THE KING OF BOLLYWOOD nor can anyone get THE MEGA CONSISTENT SUCCESS HE HAS FROM TGE START TO TILL THE END.
Plus HE IS THE BEST AND BIGGEST ACTOR OF THE GENERATION beating THE LEGENDARY DILLIP KUMAR,BIGB’S HIGHEST HOLDING RECORD.
HE IS BIGGEST ACTOR—-HIGHEST BEST PERFORMANCE
HE IS THE BIGGEST MEGASTAR—-KING HIGHEST SUCCESS+HIGHEST CLASSIC HITS/BLOCKBUSTERS
HE IS THE RICHEST MEGASTAR AMONG ALL—-IN INDIA,2ND IN THE WORLD.
still you’re comparing others with THIS MEGALEGEND??????????
SO SUCCESS MEANS KING SRK.KING SRK IS A MEGALEGEND.AND A MEGALEGEND CAN’T BE REPLACED,that everybody need to understand.
Because KING OF BOLLYWOOD RULES BOLLYWOOD SINCE 1992 TILL FOREVER.