After two articles that covered the Top 15 Actors in India and Top 8 Actors in the Overseas markets, we have the final analysis of the Top Bollywood Actors Worldwide.
Before we get down to the number game, we have the list of Top Actors in India and Top Bollywood Actors Overseas (click on the links to read the full article).
India Ranking as of September 2014 (in brackets the total collections of their last 5 films)
- 1. Salman Khan – 846 cr
- 2. Aamir Khan – 753 cr
- 3. Shahrukh Khan – 659 cr
- 4. Hrithik Roshan – 533 cr
- 5. Ranbir Kapoor – 466 cr
- 6. Ajay Devgn – 450 cr
- 7. Akshay Kumar – 379 cr
- 8. Sidharth Malhotra – 208 cr (3 films)
- 9. Varun Dhawan – 201 cr (3 films)
- 10. John Abraham – 332 cr
- 11. Saif Ali Khan – 322 cr
- 12. Arjun Kapoor – 252 cr (4 films)
- 13. Ranveer Singh – 280 cr
- 14. Emraan Hashmi – 218 cr
- 15. Shahid Kapoor – 200 cr
Overseas Ranking as of September 2014 (in brackets, overseas collections converted to Indian rupees i.e Rs 60.5 per dollar)
- 1. Shahrukh Khan – $77.18 million (? 467 cr)
- 2. Aamir Khan – $76.55 million (? 463 cr)
- 3. Salman Khan – $44.58 million (? 270 cr)
- 4. Hrithik Roshan – $29.83 million (? 180 cr)
- 5. Ranbir Kapoor – $25.83 million (? 156 cr)
- 6. Saif Ali Khan - $15.75 million (? 93 cr)
- 7. Ajay Devgn - $15.1 million (? 91 cr)
- 8. Akshay Kumar - $14.25 million (? 86 cr)
For the worldwide ranking, we decided to keep things simple. The net collections from India would be added to the gross overseas collections. Only the Top 8 established stars both in India and overseas would be considered. The rest would retain their India ranking in the worldwide list too.
Aamir Khan
Rank 1 Aamir Khan: Salman topped the India ranking list, while Shahrukh took the top spot overseas. But when the total collections from India and overseas are combined, Aamir emerges as the top star. On an average, each Aamir film collects about ? 244 crore worldwide!
- Dhoom 3 – 469 cr
- Talaash – 144 cr
- 3 Idiots – 360 cr
- Ghajini – 162 cr
- Taare Zameen Par – 82 cr
- Total – ? 1,217 cr (average ? 243.4 cr per film)
Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan
Rank 2 Shahrukh Khan: Easily the most consistent star both in India and overseas, Shahrukh would probably top the list if more than 5 or career films are taken into account. He could also be the only star in the history of Indian Cinema whose films have consistently made an impact worldwide in the last 15 years or so. But with films like Dhoom 3 and 3 Idiots, Aamir has overtaken him by a margin of 18 crore per film. Will the gap widen after the release of PK? Or will Happy New Year go on to be an all time grosser worldwide?
- Chennai Express - 341 cr
- Jab Tak Hai Jaan – 202 cr
- Don 2 – 180 cr
- Ra. One – 191 cr
- My Name Is Khan – 212 cr
- Total - ? 1,126 cr (average ? 225.2 cr per film)
Rank 3 Salman Khan: Leads by a huge margin in India, but not quite in the league of Aamir and Shahrukh overseas, Salman ranks at No 3 worldwide. The gap between him and his arch-rival Shahrukh Khan is just ? 2.2 cr per film! Infact, there is very little in it between the Khans, who are by far the most popular Bollywood actors in the world. It would take something very special from Ranbir or Hrithik to match up to the three legends of Indian Cinema who turn 50 next year!
- Kick - 302 cr
- Jai Ho – 149 cr
- Dabangg 2 – 211 cr
- Ek Tha Tiger – 262 cr
- Bodyguard – 191 cr
- Total - ? 1,115 cr (average ? 223 cr per film)
Rank 4 Hrithik Roshan: Hrithik should significantly increase the average collections of his last 5 films as his upcoming October release Bang Bang would replace one of his career’s biggest disasters Kites. He retains his fourth spot.
- Krrish 3 - 297 cr
- Agneepath – 157 cr
- Zindagi Naa Milegi Dobara – 134 cr
- Guzaarish - 49 cr
- Kites - 76 cr
- Total - ? 713 cr (average ? 142.6 cr per film)
Rank 5 Ranbir Kapoor: With two huge blockbusters, one critically acclaimed success and two failures, Ranbir, regarded by many as one of the best actors in the country, takes the 5th spot. Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani is his biggest worldwide blockbuster so far.
- Besharam - 77 cr
- Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani – 252 cr
- Barfi! – 145 cr
- Rockstar – 88 cr
- Anjaana Anjaani – 59 cr
- Total - ? 621 cr (average ? 124.2 cr per film)
Rank 6 Ajay Devgn: The huge success of Singham Returns has helped Ajay tremendously. He has gone past Akshay and also taken his average above 100 crore per film.
- Singham Returns – 167 cr (expected)
- Satyagraha – 77 cr
- Himmatwala - 53 cr
- Son of Sardaar - 119 cr
- Bol Bachchan – 126 cr
- Total - ? 542 cr (average ? 108.4 cr per film)
Rank 7 Akshay Kumar: The failure of OUATIMD hurt him big time. It was expected to be his first 200 crore grosser, instead it ended up as his least worldwide grosser. The combined business of OUATIMD in India and overseas is less than Boss! His June release Holiday: A Soldier is never off duty collected 138 cr worldwide.
- Entertainment – 87 cr
- Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty – 138 cr
- Boss – 76 cr
- Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbaai Dobaara – 74 cr
- Special 26 – 86 cr
- Total - ? 461 cr (average ? 92.2 cr per film)
Rank 8 Saif Ali Khan: His romantic comedies have done well, but his most recent release ‘Humshakals’ was a failure worldwide. Race 2 is his biggest grosser to date.
- Humshakals - 79 cr
- Bullet Raja- 42 cr
- Race 2 - 141 cr
- Cocktail - 102 cr
- Agent Vinod - 54 cr
- Total - ? 418 cr (average ? 83.6 cr per film)
Note: Worldwide Total = India net + overseas gross. Entertainment taxes has been deducted from India business.
Salman And SRK both have Equal fan following in India
Salman fan can accept Salman in Action and Masala Genre
But SRK fans Can Accept in Every Genre
Even if Word Of Mouth is extremely negative His films can cross 100 cr in every genre
Aamir khans films work Because of Strong Story and Good WOM
His stardom is very low compare to SRK and Salman
And That’s true
Superstar akshaykumar & his BIG
Entertainments are Coming,, #Baby ,
#Gabbar , #Airlift , #SinghIsBling #sidharth anands next #HF3 #Rowdy rathore 2 and #ghalib danger ……He will beat holiday dependable actors #GoAkkiGo
intresting list, all the KHANS on top in every list!
@ indicine agreed
Easily the most consistent star both in India and overseas, Shahrukh would probably top the list if more than 5 or career films are taken into account. He could also be the only star in the history of Indian Cinema whose films have consistently made an impact worldwide in the last 15 years or so. But with films like Dhoom 3 and 3 Idiots, Aamir has overtaken him by a margin of 18 crore per film.
Caution: Superstar Akshaykumar & his BIG
Entertainer’s are Coming,, #Baby ,
#Gabbar , #Airlift , #Brothers #SinghIsBling
#sidharth anands next #HF3 #Rowdy
rathore 2 and #ghalib danger ……He will
beat holiday dependable actors
#GoAkkiGo Beat the Heat
@ babaji first time agree with u
Again nice article indicine team one thing is sure khan is soul of bollywood
overseas and worldwide dosent matter in bollywood so salman is king of bollywood kingdom
after prdp this list would be chage cuz Salman and, sooraj were widely world wide opner.
@ nipun i like kites seriously but it flopped cuz of it had hollywood values and i told u hritik needs some karan arjun types movies to become more popular in mass.
@indicine, from your analysis it is clear that khans are rulling now it is turn to know actually which khan is king so kindly make such analysis of these khans carrer to know who is rulling the bollywood from 90s
Great article.Dhoom 3 and 3 idiots collections r extremely huge.According to this list the total collection of just 2 Aamir’s movies Dhoom3+3idiots is 829 crores which is more than Srk’s last 3 movies collections and more than last 5 movies collections of other actors like Hrithik,Ranbir etc.lol
@Srk the king Considering the whole career of 3 khans in terms of collections will be unfair for Aamir khan as Srk and Salman has done more than double movies than Aamir and this is the reason Aamir has less hits bcoz he has done less movies.If whole career domestic collection will be considered then Akshay kumar will be at rank 1.lol
@Js……………….
Q. What has been the response and buzz to Happy New Year promo and what sort of opening can it get?
Ans. The response is fantastic but this is the case with every commercial big budget event film from Kick to Bang Bang to Happy New Year. Simply because there are so few of them. So for these films its not about the buzz but about the day. Kick had more hype than Singham Returns but Singham Returns had a better opening day as it was a holiday and collections remained good all through the day. The hype for Happy New Year is similar to Kick and Kick on pre Eid collected 25 crore nett and on a normal day that would have been around 30 crore. Happy New Year is coming on a huge holiday which can add 40% plus so it can be the first film to hit or maybe even cross 40 crore on day one assuming ticket prices will be raised from the rates of Kick………….B.O.I
Imran Khan not in the list
GTPM (15 cr) + OUATIMD (65 cr) + MKBKM (42 cr) + EMAET (40 cr) + MBKD (56 cr) =
CE-422 cr
HNY-600 cr
FAN-550 cr
Raees-650 cr
Rohit Shetty’s next-500 cr
DON3- 700 cr
Total-3422 Cr Avg per film-570.33 cr. Worldwide gross. Picture abhi baki hai mere dost….
Top Actors( acting wise) for me:
1)Hrithik
2)aamir/srk
3)srk/aamir
4)ajay
5)akki
6)Ranbir
7)salman
bangbang 300cr worldwide is coming
Good article, Its predictable that Aamir is no. 1 worldwide, srk is always in league of top consistently throughout his career. Salman is rocking in these years specially in domestic market.So battle is interesting between P.k. and HNY, still I think its very tough for srk to beat d3 worldwide as even if we take average currency rate, than CE is still behind 3iworlwidr as 3i-360 cr, CE-342 cr, even the gap between 3i & D3 more than 100 cr and in upcoming days the currency the rs value will get strength as compare to $ because when CE released 1$=67rs and when d3 released 1$=60.5 or 61 rs and now I think 1$=57rs so beating d3 worldwide HNY should be special in content to get viewership in theatre.
Same case with P.K but p.k. I am expecting content more than collection.
@nipun whatever method you consider but hr is behind khans till date, he have to work hard for get much strong position. But he will be the leading actor in coming years.
How emraan hashmi 218 cr..
And imran khan not in the list..
Even imran’s last all five film’s collection is better then emraan hashmi starrer expect GTPM
Good article, Its predictable that Aamir is no. 1 worldwide, srk is always in league of top consistently throughout his career. Salman is rocking in these years specially in domestic market.So battle is interesting between P.k. and HNY, still I think its very tough for srk to beat d3 worldwide as even if we take average currency rate, than CE is still behind 3iworlwidr as 3i-360 cr, CE-342 cr, even the gap between 3i & D3 more than 100 cr and in upcoming days the currency the rs value will get strength as compare to $ because when CE released 1$=67rs and when d3 released 1$=60.5 or 61 rs and now I think 1$=57rs so beating d3 worldwide HNY should be special in content to get viewership in theatre.
Same case with P.K but p.k. I am expecting content more than collection.
@nipun whatever method you consider but hr is behind khans till date, he have to work hard for get much strong position. But he will be the leading actor in coming years.
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SRK is best… Indicine is not talking gross collection coz after that SRK will top
In each srk article sallu,amir,ajay,akki fan abuse srk to down him but the number of srkian in the world are much more than compare to all above listed combined fanbase so all hater’s plz include more actor fan to turn down him .
Becoz” jonko rakhe saiya mar sake n koi”
Worldwide leader=Aamir khan
Domestic leader=Salman khan
Overseas leader=Srk
Now some people will say that leading in overseas is more important than leading in domestic and worldwide.lol
DHOOM 3 500 CR,Nt 469 cr.
Forget aamir and Salman,srk can’t even compete
with hrithik. As hrithik too has been beating for last
2 years. Intact ever since his career started.
2000- KNPH>>>>>>>mohobbate, PBDHGH
2003 KMG>>>>>>>>KHNH
2004 Lakshya>>>>>> swadesh
2006DHOOM 2>>>>>>KANK(multistarrer)
2011 ZNMD>>>>>>>> Ra.one
2012 agneepath>>>>>>JTHJ
2013 K3>>>>>>>>>>>>CE
2014
BB>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>HNY
so srk if 4th star. LOL. Shame on u srk. Feeling bad
for sss, vignesh,bhijpuri bhaiya, deepu. Hope srk
retires soon because he has very few fans as
compared to megastars aamir, Salman, hrithik and
even akshay, ajay, etc.
great article
loved it…
so in his bad phase of carrer
he is at no 3 in india (ra one most negative reviews)
no 1 in overseas
and no 2 in worldwide dats the power of srk
wai until HNY
he will take his position back
Ce has collected more than 3i both gross or net so list is not completely accurate
Btw record that should be shatter…
First day collection 42 cr
first weekend collection minimum 110 cr
first week if loved 200
if mixed den 180
second weekend 50 cr
second week total 85
lifetime 280 -300 cr with mixed wom
When It’s About Taking Opening At B.O..Aamir Khan Beats Srk Every-time. Even Aamir’s non-holiday releases beat srk’s holiday release. Aamir Gave 5 Record Opener In Last 10 Movies.. Srk Gave Only1…. It Proves That Ace Is Always Greater Than King.
Note : In 2002,2003,2004,2010 And In 2011 No Aamir’s Film Released
CE COLLECTED lesser than 3idiots?seriously,joke of the millenium.
WHATEVER
SRK NEEDS 200CR TO BE NO.1 IN DOMESTIC.AFTER TALASH2(PK),IT WILL BE EASY.
SRK NEEDS 22.5 USD TO REMAIN IN NO.1 WHATEVER PK COLLECTS IN OVERSEAS.
SO THIS DEEWALI KING RETURNS BACK TO HIS THRONE.
CHARLIE IS COMING.