Salman Khan Tops Forbes Indian Celebrity 100 List For 3rd Consecutive Time

Salman Khan has topped the Forbes Indian Celebrity 100 list for the third consecutive time. On the other hand, “his best-buddy” Shah Rukh Khan has dropped from the 10 ranks, while actress Deepika Padukone has emerged as the only female celebrity in the Top 5 list according to Forbes

Salman Khan cemented his place in the top spot thanks to the commercial success of his movies Tiger Zinda Hai and Race 3. His earnings were backed by endorsements of several consumer-facing brands and constitute 8% of the total earnings – Rs31 billion- of the top 100 celebrities for the year, read a statement from Forbes.

Deepika Padukone broke into the top five on the Forbes India Celebrity 100 list – the first woman celebrity to find a place in the top five – with earnings of Rs1.1 billion, placing her firmly at rank four, thanks to the commercial success of Padmaavat.

Editor of Forbes India, Brian Carvalho said, “The Celebrity 100 is a definitive barometer of earnings of celebrities. Besides the earnings charts and cover stories on high-fliers like Sachin Tendulkar, Akshay Kumar and Deepika Padukone, we have also covered in the Celebrity 100 Special issue a whole new generation of celebrities – the unlikeliest of YouTube stars from the hinterland, a rapper from the Mumbai ghettos and an activist actor from Kerala taking on misogyny head-on in the testosterone-driven Malayalam film industry.”

The 2018 Forbes India Celebrity 100 List rankings are based on estimates of entertainment-related earnings of celebrities. The period under consideration is October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018.

Forbes Indian Celebrity 100 List

Rank	Name	Earnings (In Rs. crore)
1	Salman Khan	253.25
2	Virat Kohli	228.09
3	Akshay Kumar	185
4	Deepika Padukone	112.8
5	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	101.77
6	Aamir Khan	97.5
7	Amitabh Bachchan	96.17
8	Ranveer Singh	84.67
9	Sachin Tendulkar	80
10	Ajay Devgn	74.5
11	AR Rahman	66.75
12	Alia Bhatt	58.83
13	Shah Rukh Khan	56
14	Rajinikanth	50
15	Varun Dhawan	49.58
16	Anushka Sharma	45.83
17	Ranbir Kapoor	44.5
18	Arijit Singh	43.32
19	Sanjay Dutt	37.85
20	PV Sindhu	36.5
21	Katrina Kaif	33.67
22	Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy	32.46
23	Rohit Sharma	31.49
24	Pawan Kalyan	31.33
25	Kareena Kapoor Khan	31
26	Vijay	30.33
27	Hardik Pandya	28.46
28	Junior NTR	28
29	Vikram	26
30	Karan Johar	25.9
31	Amit Trivedi	25.28
32	Sanjeev Kapoor	24.5
33	Mahesh Babu	24.33
34	Suriya	23.67
34	Vijay Sethupathi	23.67
36	Nagarjuna	22.25
37	Sidharth Malhotra	21.67
38	Nucleya	21.63
39	Kortala Siva	20
40	Jacqueline Fernandez	19.95
41	Hrithik Roshan	19.56
42	John Abraham	19.3
43	Vishal-Shekhar	19.04
44	Ravichandran Ashwin	18.9
45	Diljit Dosanjh	18.5
46	Sonu Nigam	18.46
47	Rajkumar Hirani	18.33
47	Sanjay Leela Bhansali	18.33
49	Priyanka Chopra	18
49	Mammootty	18
51	Mika Singh	17.4
52	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	17.26
53	Dhanush	17.25
54	Shahid Kapoor	17.17
55	Suresh Raina	16.96
56	Aishwarya Rai Bachchan	16.83
57	Irrfan Khan	16.67
58	Saina Nehwal	16.54
59	KL Rahul	16.48
60	Jasprit Bumrah	16.42
61	Salim-Sulaiman	16.32
62	Shikhar Dhawan	16.26
63	Badshah	15.94
64	Allu Arjun	15.67
65	Anil Kapoor	15.5
65	Remo D’Souza	15.5
67	Taapsee Pannu	15.48
68	Ravindra Jadeja	15.39
69	Nayanthara	15.17
70	Shraddha Kapoor	15.15
71	Kamal Haasan	14.2
72	Ram Charan	14
72	Vijay Deverakonda	14
74	Bharti Singh	13.95
75	Tiger Shroff	13.5
76	Sonam Kapoor Ahuja	13.23
77	Manish Pandey	13.08
78	Ajinkya Rahane	12.02
79	Rohit Shetty	12
79	Hari	12
81	Anirban Lahiri	11.99
82	Sunil Grover	11.81
83	Parineeti Chopra	11.35
84	Karan Kundra	11.01
85	Madhuri Dixit Nene	10.98
86	Krushna Abhishek	10.97
87	Srikanth Kidambi	10.5
88	Saif Ali Khan	10.25
89	Mithun Chakraborty	9.15
90	Chetan Bhagat	8.75
91	Ram Kapoor	8.67
92	Ali Asgar	8.2
93	R Balki	8
94	Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya	7.8
95	Amish Tripathi	6.5
96	Vijender Singh	6.4
97	All India Bakchod	5
98	Shubhankar Sharma	4.5
99	Rohan Bopanna	3.27
100	Vir Das	2.9