Shah Rukh Khan beats Salman Khan to be India's top-earning celeb

Shah Rukh Khan has regained hisposition as Indias topearning celebrity with estimatedearnings of Rs 2575 crore this year pushing Salman Khan tothe second position in the latest Forbes listShah Rukh had lost his top rank to friend and archrivalSalman last year and had slipped to the third position Forbessaid in its annual India Celebrity List for 2015 todaySalman Khan and SRK PicColors Twitter accountIncidentally the list comes a day after Salman Khan wasacquitted by Bombay High Court in a nearly 13yearold hit andrun caseSalmans estimated earnings as per the latest liststands at Rs 20275 crore more than Rs 50 crore less thanthat of Shah Rukh Khan Amitabh Bachchan is at third positiondown from his second position last yearForbes said the total wealth of top 100 celebrities stoodat Rs 2819 crore while cinema and cricket dominate thetopten positionsMahendra Singh Dhoni has been ranked fourth and isfollowed by Aamir Khan Akshay Kumar Virat Kohli SachinTendulkar Deepika Padukone and Hrithik Roshan in toptenBesides the earnings estimates the overall Celebrity 100list also takes into account the fame Their gross pretaxearnings are combined with their fame scores to arrive at theForbes India Celebrity 100 List the magazine saidIn terms of earnings alone also 50yearold Shah Rukhtopped the list while Salman is at the second positionHowever Akshay Kumar ranks higher at third position in terms of earnings and is followed by Dhoni and Bachchan at fourth and fifth places respectivelyForbes said Shah Rukhs estimated earnings at Rs 2575crore is the highest ever any celebrity has made in thefouryear history of the Forbes India Celebrity 100 listIn fact his earnings make up as much as 9 per cent ofthe total wealth of the top 100 celebrities this year Rs2819 crore it said although he still lags behind atnumberfour in terms fame ranking where 73yearold Bachchanreigns at the top positionAamir Khan has made it to the top five for the first time He is at number 5 on the list this year and his superhit movie PK and revenues from brand endorsements helped him rake in an estimated Rs 10425 crore his highest in the last four yearsIt is an increase of 145 per cent to the amount he earnedin 2012 On the other hand Alia Bhatt and Madhuri Dixit havemoved up the list despite any movie release in the time periodunder consideration October 1 2014 to September 30 2015Their rise on the list is entirely due to earnings from brandendorsements and their fame quotient Forbes saidThe list this year has also witnessed a few who jumped ranks and moved up considerably higher in just one year Among the topthree rank gainers are Dhanush who moved up 41 ranks and is at number 37 Rohit Sharma and Allu Arjun both moved up 38 ranks and are at number 12 and number 42 respectivelyThis years list has 14 debutants among them cricketerRavichandran Ashwin who comes in straight at number 31Filmmaker SS Rajamouli and actor Prabhas make it to the listdue to the monster hit BaahubaliThere were more dropouts this year though 19 celebslost their ranks on the Celebrity 100 list for 2015 includingSanjay Leela Bhansali A R Murugadoss and ShankarEhsaanLoyFor the complete listForbes 2015 India Celebrity 100