Forbes Magazine has published the list of top 100 Indian celebrities from the sports and entertainment sectors of 2019. Cricketer Virat Kohli tops the number one position in the list.
Malayalam superstars Mohanlal and Mammootty are in the list. Mohanlal is at number 27 and Mammootty at 62. Salman Khan who held the top spot since 2016, has slipped to third position. Apart from Mohanlal and Mammootty, other south Indian stars in the list are Rajinikanth, A R Rehman, Dhanush, Vijay, Kamal Hassan, Prabhas, director Shanker, Mahesh Babu, Saina Nehwal and P V Sindhu. Rajinikanth is in the 13th position, Rehman 17. Half Keralite John Abraham is in the 46 place.
Akshay Kumar with a reported earnings of Rs 293.25 crore in 2019 has climbed up the ladder to rank second, which is the highest position occupied by someone from the entertainment industry. Mohanlal has taken the 27th position in the list with an earning of Rs 64.5 crore. He was not in the list last year but has managed to bag a top spot now. On the other hand Mammootty has dropped from his 49th position to the 62 rank with an income of Rs 33.5 crore in 2019.
List of celebrities from the entertainment industry who made it to the Forbes Celebrity 100:
Akshay Kumar (Rs 293.25 crore) – 2nd position
Salman Khan (Rs 229.25 crore) – 3rd position
Amitabh Bachchan (Rs 239.25 crore) – 4th position
Shah Rukh Khan (Rs 124.38 crore) – 6th position
Ranveer Singh (Rs 118.2 crore) – 7th position
Alia Bhatt (Rs 59.21 crore) – 8th position
Deepika Padukone (Rs 48 crore) – 10th position
Ajay Devgn (Rs 94 crore) – 12th position
Rajinikanth (Rs 100 crore) – 13th position
Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Rs 23.4 crore) – 14th position
Aamir Khan (Rs 85 crore) – 15th position
AR Rahman (Rs 94.8 crore) – 16th position
Pritam (Rs 97.78 crore) – 17th position
Hrithik Roshan (Rs 58.73 crore) – 18th position
Amit Trivedi (Rs 80.73 crore) – 19th position
Vishal-Shekhar (Rs 76.84 crore) – 20th position
Anushka Sharma (Rs 28.67 crore) – 21st position
Ajay-Atul (Rs 77.91 crore) – 22nd position
Katrina Kaif (Rs 23.63 crore) – 23rd position
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (Rs 76.48 crore) – 24th position
Varun Dhawan (Rs 33 crore) – 25th position
Arijit Singh (Rs 71.95 crore) – 26th position
Mohanlal (Rs 64.5 crore) – 27th position
Shraddha Kapoor (Rs 8.33 crore) – 28th position
Neha Kakkar (Rs 25 crore) – 29th position
Jacqueline Fernandez (Rs 9.5 crore) – 32nd position
Shahid Kapoor (Rs 12.75 crore) – 36th position
Ayushmann Khurrana (Rs 30.5 crore) – 37th position
Kriti Sanon (Rs 8.09 crore) – 38th position
Diljit Dosanjh (Rs 36.91 crore) – 39th position
Tiger Shroff (Rs 18.5 crore) – 40th position
Parineeti Chopra (Rs 12.5 crore) – 41st position Sonam Kapoor Ahuja (Rs 8.5 crore) – 42nd position
Disha Patani (Rs 5.8 crore) – 43rd position
Prabhas (Rs 35 crore) – 44th position
Ranbir Kapoor (Rs 45 crore) – 45th position
John Abraham (Rs 28.5 crore) – 46th position
Vijay (Rs 30 crore) – 47th position
Sunny Leone (Rs 2.5 crore) – 48th position
Guru Randhawa (Rs 26.4 crore) – 49th position
Karan Johar (Rs 12 crore) – 50th position
Ajith Kumar (Rs 40.5 crore) – 52nd position
Kapil Sharma (Rs 34.98 crore) – 53rd position
Mahesh Babu (Rs 35 crore) – 54th position
S Shankar (Rs 31.5 crore) – 55th position
Kamal Haasan (Rs 34 crore) – 56th position
Madhuri Dixit Nene (Rs 10.83 crore) – 57th position
Badshah (Rs 29.17 crore) – 58th position
Sonakshi Sinha (Rs 6.14 crore) – 59th position
Rohit Shetty (Rs 32.17 crore) – 60th position
Mammootty (Rs 33.5 crore) – 62nd position
Dhanush (Rs 31.75 crore) – 64th position
Arjun Kapoor (Rs 11.45 crore) – 65th position
Sara Ali Khan (Rs 5.75 crore) – 66th position
Kartik Aaryan (Rs 10.38 crore) – 67th position
Taapsee Pannu (Rs 6.18 crore) – 68th position
Sushant Singh Rajput (Rs 14.26 crore) – 69th position
Kangana Ranaut (Rs 17.5 crore) – 70th position
Anil Kapoor (Rs 14.67 crore) – 71st position
Vicky Kaushal (Rs 10.42 crore) – 72nd position
Saif Ali Khan (Rs 17.03 crore) -74th position
Shilpa Shetty Kundra (Rs 2.26 crore) – 75th position
Malaika Arora (Rs 2.09 crore) – 76th position
Trivikram Srinivas (Rs 21.5 crore) – 77th position
Ali Abbas Zafar (Rs 15 crore) – 78th position
Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya (Rs 1.46 crore) – 79th position
Siva (Rs 12.17 crore) – 80th position
Bharti Singh (Rs 10.92 crore) – 82nd position
Zoya Akhtar (Rs 9.33 crore) – 83rd position
Karthik Subbaraj (Rs 13.5 crore) – 84th position
Remo D’Souza (Rs 1.63 crore) – 86th position
Raveena Tandon (Rs 2.4 crore) – 89th position
Karan Kundra (Rs 4.12 crore) – 92nd position
Kalki Koechlin (Rs 3.33 crore) – 93rd position