Forbes India has released its 2015 list of the most powerful and highest earning celebrities in India. Shah Rukh Khan has toppled Salman Khan to take the top spot this year.
Salman’s yearly income has dropped from Rs 244.50 crore in 2014 to 202.75 crore in 2015. SRK, who was at Rs 202.40 crore last year, has earned Rs 257.5 crore this year.
Akshay Kumar is the third highest earner, but his income has dropped from Rs 172 crore in 2014 to Rs 127.83 crore in 2015.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Virat Kohli are the only cricketers in the Top 10, that is dominated by film stars. Deepika Padukone is the only female to make it to the Top 10.
Check out the full list of Forbes Celebrity 100 below. Do note that the list of for the Top 100 Most Powerful celebrities in India. We have also included their earnings for 2015.
Forbes India Top 100
1. Shah Rukh Khan – 257.5 cr
2. Salman Khan – 202.75 cr
3. Amitabh Bachchan – 112 cr
4. Mahendra Singh Dhoni – 119.33 cr
5. Aamir Khan – 104.25 cr
6. Akshay Kumar – 127.83 cr
7. Virat Kohli – 104.78 cr
8. Sachin Tendulkar – 40 cr
9. Deepika Padukone – 59 cr
10. Hrithik Roshan – 74.5 cr
11. Ranbir Kapoor – 85 cr
12. Rohit Sharma – 17.71 cr
13. Priyanka Chopra – 26.75 cr
14. AR Rahman – 43.97 cr
15. Shahid Kapoor – 14.88 cr
16. Shikhar Dhawan – 19.17 cr
17. Kareena Kapoor Khan – 52.75 cr
18. Katrina Kaif – 48.5 cr
19. Anushka Sharma – 26.83 cr
20. Suresh Raina – 13.4 cr
21. Yuvraj Singh – 20.5 cr
22. Sonakshi Sinha – 13.13 cr
23. Madhuri Dixit – 19.25 cr
24. Ajay Devgn – 61 cr
25. Ajinkya Rahane – 9.78 cr
26. Sonam Kapoor – 7.06 cr
27. Kapil Sharma – 15 cr
28. Saif Ali Khan – 43.55 cr
29. Yo Yo Honey Singh – 1.5 cr
30. Ranveer Singh – 29 cr
31. Ravichandran Ashwin – 8.83 cr
32. Sonu Nigam – 17.9 cr
33. Shreya Ghoshal – 9 cr
34. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan – 48 cr
35. Virender Sehwag – 5.6 cr
36. Mahesh Babu – 51.5 cr
37. Dhanush – 42 cr
38. Sania Mirza – 13.25 cr
39. Saina Nehwal – 16.99 cr
40. Alia Bhatt – 18 cr
41. Ravindra Jadeja – 8.88 cr
42. Allu Arjun – 37.5 cr
43. Parineeti Chopra – 15.25 cr
44. Karan Johar – 15.5 cr
45. Sunny Leone – 5.05 cr
46. Kamal Haasan – 51 cr
47. Jacqueline Fernandez – 7 cr
48. Ishant Sharma – 4.07 cr
49. Harbhajan Singh – 6.45 cr
50. Gautam Gambhir – 5.75 cr
51. Farhan Akhtar – 21.88 cr
52. N.Santhanam – 45 cr
53. John Abraham – 21.5 cr
54. Varun Dhawan – 25.75 cr
55. Arjun Kapoor – 13.88 cr
56. Kangana Ranaut – 18.63 cr
57. Shraddha Kapoor – 8.9 cr
58. Kajal Aggarwal – 10.13 cr
59. Abhishek Bachchan – 11 cr
60. Sunidhi Chauhan – 11.1 cr
61. Shruti Haasan – 8 cr
62. MC Mary Kom – 9.75 cr
63. Vishal-Shekhar – 33.27 cr
64. Mika Singh – 21.02 cr
65. Arijit Singh – 11.25 cr
66. Chetan Bhagat – 4.42 cr
67. Rajkumar Hirani – 23.33 cr
68. All India Bakchod – 5.5 cr
69. Rajinikanth – 25 cr
70. Kabir Khan – 19.33 cr
71. Suriya – 32 cr
72. SS Rajamouli – 26 cr
73. Anurag Kashyap – 8 cr
74. Ravi Teja – 12.5 cr
75. Anupam Kher – 7.93 cr
76. Riteish Deshmukh – 1.94 cr
77. Prabhas – 24 cr
78. Irrfan Khan – 12.38 cr
79. Bipasha Basu – 3.66 cr
80. Arya – 29 cr
81. Farah Khan – 9.83 cr
82. Ajay-Atul – 27.5 cr
83. Shilpa Shetty – 9.75 cr
84. Preity Zinta – 1 cr
85. Leander Paes – 1.76 cr
86. Salim-Sulaiman – 18.7 cr
87. Remo D’Souza – 6.5 cr
88. Prabhudheva – 11.5 cr
89. Puri Jagannadh – 15.67 cr
90. Anirban Lahiri – 11 cr
91. Shaan – 3.5 cr
92. Sunil Chhetri – 1.2 cr
93. Rohan Bopanna – 3.4 cr
94. Navjot Singh Sidhu – 3 cr
95. Kirron Kher – 3.5 cr
96. Rohit Shetty – 4.5 cr
97. Amish Tripathi – 6.5 cr
98. Mithun Chakroborty – 8.24 cr
99. Vir Das – 2 cr
100. Malaika Arora Khan – 5.5 cr
@Babaji 03:41 pm : Thanks for the info.
This chameleon idiot always hides behind different ids. I myself caught him thrice using different ids.
You loon, why don’t you attempt a direct face-off? Hiding behind multiple faces is a characteristics of women and not a man. If you have any Shame left, come with your original Id and stick to that you loser.
@3:12pm
Dude PKs profits are not 340cr- that was its total income and out of that there is a distributor share n exhibitor share but of what ratio nobody really knows. Just for the record Aamir didnt earn 40% of 340cr but it was 40% of a smaller number.
@4:04pm
Even better idea is for ppl to use their own real birth names instead of IDs so I suggest Why dont you yourself heed your own advice n start using your real name instead of an ID Mr Abdullah Suicide Talla….
Absolutely right @AAMIR-The Megastar.
Aamir made entry in top 10 first time.
power of doing endorsement.
I still believe Aamir had loose crores because of his distance from endorsement. pk+snapdeal helped him to be in top 10.
love to see in popularity Big B at no. 1, followed by Salman and srk at 4.
I think they are considering followers for social sites also as benchmark for popularity ranking.
@3:44pm
Again manipulating the facts old man…..!
In popularity (fame) bases AmitabhB at first spot n Salman at 2nd while Teesra khan at 3rd :D
Akshay at 3rd, ranbir at 11 nd legend ajay devgan at 24 ….:D
Akshay’s earnings has gone down .
He should do a reality show now just like salman doing big boss nd making good money otherwise akshay has more brand endorsements then salman khan ….!
@indicine wtf..
no sid no emmi..
i mean really??
vir das and ishant are there even…
forbes??
never publish such list again plz..
@amirthe mg star whatever your stupid name is….. why you ask indicine for sallu drop income? why don’t you understand that sallu money is for buying lawyers to bail him so he will not going to jail anymore…that the reason why his money dropped
@Illiterate Aunt 04:15 pm : There is something called “username” and it’s totally my choice how my username should look alike. I’m free to use any combination of alphabets and numbers for the same.
However, going forward, I’ll buy your idea for a while but how about adding your real birth date as a prefix along with your “real birth name” ?
In that case , your commutative Id will look like “Mrs Naveena 31-01-1952” .
Kindly provide your valuable inputs on the same so that we can request indicine to make such arrangement :P
Srk has so many fans(dont know the exact number?)…..why is promoting films lyk he has none??…waiting for an answer from a srk fan…
This forbes list is a joke. No Ajith , Vijay, Sudeep, Darshan, Nivin – all stalwarts of south indian cinema ) morever Rajnikanth at 69 place? What a joke )) Cmon forbes , stop this bulllshit of a list ))
lol
amitabh 112 cr
aishwarya 48 cr
n abhishek 11 cr hahahahaha
wat an idea sir ji :P
NO.1 MEGASTAR ON EARTH.THIS LIST IS JUST AN EXCUSE FOR ANYONE to come closer to KING SRK,while in reality no one is closer to KING SRK.
BECAUSE WORLD’S 2ND MOST RICHEST ACTOR—-KING SRK >>>>>>>>>>>BIGB+salman+akshay+amir+in fact while Bollywood in everything RULING BOLLYWOOD+POPULARITY+FAN FOLLOWING +MEGA STARPOWER
it’s not an easy task for anyone that someone can constantly top the in last 5 years
2012-TOPPED
2013-TOPPED
2014-2ND
2015-AGAIN TOPPED
ha ha ha ha ,even though non actor aka salman is depending on masala genre+south remake+child artist to earn money,still he is a child in front of KING KHAN in earning.
He needs another 1000 births to come close to come closer to KING KHAN.
BRAND SRK RULES INDIA AND KING SRK RULES BOLLYWOOD.
@xzone,very well said bro.
@nipun returns,whoever you’re ,but still a nice joke salman has way more fans than KING KHAN.which WE can see his fan’s losing position in each poll everywhere.
salman is nothing but a cheapest masala genre dependent non actor whose whole life is nothing but valueless has no valued movies containing craps only and whole life is based on criminalism,thus this devil loser never capable of reaching near KING SRK’S FEET even,still his fanbase’s unberabel reactions giving so much pleasure to watch,so much fun.
BADSHAH/KING DR.SRK RULES BOLLYWOOD.
NO.1 MEGASTAR ON EARTH.THIS LIST IS JUST AN EXCUSE FOR ANYONE to come closer to KING SRK,while in reality no one is closer to KING SRK.
BECAUSE WORLD’S 2ND MOST RICHEST ACTOR—-KING SRK >>>>>>>>>>>BIGB+salman+akshay+amir+in fact while Bollywood in everything RULING BOLLYWOOD+POPULARITY+FAN FOLLOWING +MEGA STARPOWER
it’s not an easy task for anyone that someone can constantly top the in last 5 years
2012-TOPPED
2013-TOPPED
2014-2ND
2015-AGAIN TOPPED
ha ha ha ha ,even though non actor aka salman is depending on masala genre+south remake+child artist to earn money,still he is a child in front of KING KHAN in earning.
He needs another 1000 births to come close to come closer to KING KHAN.
BRAND SRK RULES INDIA AND KING SRK RULES BOLLYWOOD.
@xzone,very well said bro.
@nipun returns,whoever you’re ,but still a nice joke salman has way more fans than KING KHAN.which WE can see his fan’s losing position in each poll everywhere.
salman is nothing but a cheapest masala genre dependent non actor whose whole life is nothing but valueless has no valued movies containing craps only and whole life is based on criminalism,thus this devil loser never capable of reaching near KING SRK’S FEET even,still his fanbase’s unberabel reactions giving so much pleasure to watch,so much fun.
BADSHAH/KING DR.SRK RULES BOLLYWOOD….
SRK ; without any film releases, no tv shows tops forbes celebrity list..
Most Successful star for a reason.. most powerful star for a reason..
No matter how many try to bring him down, he is unstoppable and unshakable since 22 years.
He is the Highest Earning Bollywood Star,
He is the Biggest Donor for Chennai Relief Fund from Bollywood.
He is at no.1 at Times Celebex without any movie release for more than a year.
UNDISPUTED BADSHAH OF BOLLYWOOD _/\_ .
It’s very obvious SRK is the King of Bollywood!! He is the reason why non-Hindi speakers like myself love India!
SRK is just beyond awesomeness. Unshakable HE is! Inspiration to millions to conquer the world with hard work.
Congrats, Shah Rukh Khan remind me one thing, An Ordinary Man with His Extraordinary! He just make his Own dream, & work towards that. he is India’s biggest star, the biggest global icon.
Biggest star for a reason. SRK is truly the biggest and the best.
look at the difference between top 2. looks like SRK will top next year too.
SRK has topped it 3 times in just 5 yrs, this is just amaziing, big achievement.. Only Love, respect to u Dr. Shah. I’m trying my best at least to follow your instruction on achieving the things in life.
Without any release King Khan tops Forbes for the 3rd time so it’ll be quite interesting to see next year’s list when SRK will have 3 release..
SRK has topped forbes 3 times, Salman 2 times while Aamir is still waiting/hoping for Hirani’s help.
SRK is always Salman’s daddy be it in acting, stardom, popularity, charity, humanity, everything.
SRK is my fav Indian actor of all time. He’s the only reason I somewhat watch Bollywood movies
you are magical SRK oh my heart is stop very handsome and very sexy like always so sweet.
@Team Indicine
This list has been compiled by Forbes and Criteria for preparing this list is combination of both Earning Ranking and Fame Ranking.
The time period considered for this particular list is from 01-10-2014 to 31-09-2015.
@Indicine : Post SRK’s latest speech at the IIMBUE.