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
Correction above, I meant to say that time period considered is from 1st October 2014 to 30th September 2015.
hahaha SRK is always bigger than salman, forbes is the proof.
@babaji. Thanks for the info. These bhaitards can stoop to any extent to spread negativity.
Please mention income earned included KKR profits & mujraa in NRI weddings ….. :p
BRAND SRK RULES BOLLYWOOD.KING SRK RULES INDIAN CINEMA/BOLLYWOOD.
LAST 5 YEARS
2012—-TOPPED
2013—-TOPPED
2014—-2ND
2015—-AGAIN TOPPED
ONLY A GENUINE MEGASTAR CAN DO THIS.
this is just an excuse for all actor to come near KING SRK.
but in REALITY,no one is come closer to HIM.
because HE IS WORLD’S 2ND RICHEST ACTOR,WHOSE WORTH>whole Indian actors from every industry combined.
Not only that IN RULING BOLLYWOOD CONSISTENTLY+SUPREME POPULARITY+FAN FOLLOWING+SUPREME MEGASTARDOM>>>>>>>>all Indian actor combined.
THE BIGGEST MEGASTAR ON EARTH—-BADSHAH/KING DR.SRK RULES BOLLYWOOD.
@salman fans,in 1000 birth too your 1 rupee takla star never will even come closer to THE VALUE OF KING KHAN’S MEGA SUPREME TALENT+MEGASTARDOM+FAN FOLLOWING.
AND ONE MORE UPDATE IS 1ST DAY OF DILWALE COLLECTION WILL BE GIVEN TO CHENNAI FLOOD AFFECTED AREA RELIEF FUND.JUST LIKE IN 2013,CE’S 1ST DAY COLLECTION GIVEN TO UTTARAKHAND FLOOD.
THAT MEANS KING KHAN WILL TOP OVER even Rajnikanth in donation.
THIS IS WHAT REAL INDIAN unlike salman who is claiming to relieve terrorists and spending moneys in high court and biggest lawyer rather to give poor’s,such a selfish as well a dusgusting star I have ever in whole life who can’t help the poor.
AGAIN KING KHAN PROVED WHY HE IS THE NO.1INDIANN,where are the criminals who claimed HIM to leave India,now their time to leave INDIA.
BOW DOWN TO THE MAN WITH BIGGEST HUMAN HEART THAT ONLY BEATS FOR HIS COUNTRY—-INDIA,NO ONE COULD BE BIGGER INDIAN THAN THIS MAN—-BADSHAH/KING MEGASTAR DR.SRK.
First of all this is stupid comparison. Aamir does 1 movie in 2 years and he also doesnt host any shows and now he is also doing hardly any endorsements then how can we compare him to srk and Salman and big b who do more films, do endorsements, dance in weddings, host fake awards, fake shows and such things. But we rather judge by box office power then aamir leads both Salman and srk by big margin.
no movie release but 257cr now 3 movie line pe 500cr 2016 is on
Oh its really tough to hate someone like srk. I feel pity for haters.
Lol these people are funny. I have no problem with top 5 but the rest are jokes.
Some actors did 4 to 5 movies like Ranbir and Akshay but still just that amount. Our south superstar Maheshyl babu 1 movie 51. 5crs but 36th Kamal Hassan 50 but 51st Ajay Devgn 61 crs also 1 movie but 24th although Shivaay churned very high amount of money now Imagin Sonakshi with 13 crs ahead of all of them. Earning wise or fame wise no where near. Hritik hats off no movies but the 74.5 crs. No female actress earned more than happy Deepika 59 still no.8. Shahid 14.86crs and no.15? Nonsense.
Fully agree with #aNIPUNma. Bhai has already given one ATBB & one superhit while queen has zero release.
Bigg boss last season was successful and sabse shaana kaun was disaster.
In fan following Bhai is way ahead of tax CHOR.
So how tax CHOR ahead of Bhai in most powerful list….???
Salman actual earning in 2015 – bb budget 60cr. = total 620 cr worldwide collection = 163 cr overseas = 320 cr in India
Salman is producer of bb = 260+163= 323 cr
Prdp= 50 cr.
Bb9= 120 cr.
Endorsement = 40 cr
Salman khan total profit = 533 cr
40% tax cut = 319 cr.
Truth
Saalo sach bolo
the real superstar that is show up in every list in the first centers like Amitabh Bachchan Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar
what about srk black money from ipl. That is why he is richest. I think he earned 1000cr this year
Super akki sir at 6 spot haters shock. @ shabudana whether akki Sir film will flop akki sir will top 10.
How can Akshay Kumar who was the first or second highest earning bollywood actor this year by forbes is the third highest paid indian actor by forbes india
@sss, bro why do you have so much negativity? see , srk, salman, aamir all three are legends and ruling bollywood for more than 23 years. they all are great in their own ways and have their charisma, acting talent and screen presence. I know you are a die hard srk fan adn one of the biggest fans of srk, so nothing wrong with that, and i can understand your feelings when some one bash srk, but please don’t degrade salman and aamir without any reason, because they are also legends. and we should respect all three of them. we all fans should forget out enimosity and now become friends because srk and salman have become like brothers once again and they have no more problem, and now they show their love in each and every event be it the iftar party, be it 21st anniversary of aap ki adalat, their head to head wrestling during srk’s birthday last month to the now bigg boss promo. so it’s my humble request to stop bashing salman and aamir now.
@aman rofl generally I don’t care about filmfare awards and there theories but because you srkians do the most.
Check below link:-
http://m.photos.timesofindia.com/awards/filmfare-awards/filmfare-special/filmfares-most-powerful-celebs/articleshow/6227176.cms
Look Aamir topped thrice with 2007,2008,2009. It was the time when Aamir brand value at his peek.
Now a days Aamir neither do much films nor brand endorsement. Even SMJ was a show where he earned from star but he produced that show so his money also went in the making process of SMJ.
Now the Big difference between Aamir & Srk sense of film making.
Srk endorses Pan Parag and Aamir does Incredible India. Though they are same in one plateform, Both talked about intolerance but Aamir also made difference here first with exaggeration statement and retained by it, srk said and then palti maar li.
Get well soon Moron.
Dilwale<<CE
In terms of power list big b no 1 salman khan no 2 …srk khan no 4 ..acc. to forbes ..@indicine why r u not posting with article…??
Indicine u have posted wrong article plz correct it…earning m srk no1 but powerful actor m 4 no pe h ..no 1 pe big b or second pe salman..!!
@tiger-the real takla,this is the list of both MOST POWERFUL as well HIGHEST EARNING
MOST POWERFUL—-KING KHAN
HIGHEST EARNER—-KING KHAN
bb success was due to Harshali/Kabir+KING KHAN’S PROMOTIONS.prdp’s 50% opening is due to DILWALE TRAILER,where is takla’s stardom.
Till now DILWALE is not released still KING KHAN IS NO.1,proves salman is nothing infeont of THE ALL TIME SUPREME RULER OF BOLLYWOOD.
KING KHAN need not be give tax because HE IS DOING HIGHEST CHARITY while takla khan is spending money in courts.and in Hollywood too Actors who’re giving charity need not to give tax.still also KING IS GIVING HIGHEST CHARITY+TAX,IT proves only one thing your criminal idol is not only a tax chor but also didn’t ha e the capability to help poor’s.neither can act,dance,perform at any world stage,nor having good sense of humour,nor being known outside India,your takla star is just a useless valueless papa’s media made talentless non actor who only knows how to do nautanki in his cheapest films whose actual worth is to do a beggar job outside MANNAT or to do a servant job in MANNAT for which reason he can earn even more higher what he is earning now,ROFL.KING KHAN please give some money to this takla khan so that he can spent this in his upcoming cases.
@indicine…wtf ..bcuz of u …sab ek dusre ko blame kr rahe h u should also mention star power …big b no 1 nd salman khan no 2
SRK ROCXXXXXX
fake list…..salman’s earning only with big boss 9 is 7 carore per episode means one month=8 episode, multiple 3 months =24 episode *7 carore=168 carore + bajrangi bhaijaan earning minimum 90 carore=258 carore + prdp earning minimum 50 carore=308 n this is without adding endorsement (advertising product). if we add this as 40 carore minimum it reaches 348 carore…….
@mechanic:
Yes BB is successful due to Harshali and Nawajuddin and collected over 320cr. But your queen yet touch even 220cr mark. So according to your logic….
HARSHALI>>>tax CHOR.
Nawajuddin>>>tax CHOR.
After seeing such huge stardom of Nawajuddin your tax CHOR agreed to play 2nd lead character in Nawaj’s Raees.
If inability to give a highest grosser of the year for 9years is the parameter then yes your tax CHOR is the most powerful star. If inability of giving a 230cr grosser is a parameter then your tax CHOR is the biggest star of the country… LOL.
@TIGER, ha ha ha ha ha.. Couldn’t atop laughing at your comment. You literally nailed that mechanic’s lungi. Keep it up.
@Rew1:
Thanks dude…
Nonsensical list.