Kollywood celebrities have shown their strength in earnings in the year 2019. For the first time since Forbes India magazine started publishing top celebrities list, Kollywood stars zoomed past our Tollywood superstars like Mahesh Babu and Prabhas.
Rajinikanth, Vijay, and Ajith have bettered their positions this year.
On the other hand, Prabhas stood at the 44th position in the list of top 100. Despite acting in biggie like “Saaho” that did more than Rs 350 crore business, Prabhas’s earnings are not on par with the Bollywood stars. He didn’t even cross Mahesh Babu’s earnings.
Superstar Mahesh Babu’s position has also slipped to 54 this year. He was in the 33rd position last year.
No other stars from Tollywood have made it to the list but for the first time Tollywood director Trivikram Srinivas’s name is featured in this list. He stood at 77th place with the earnings of Rs 21.5 crore. Trivikram is charging Rs 15 crore per each movie plus some stake in the profits.
Stars like Ram Charan, NTR and Allu Arjun who featured in previous years lost the place this year.
From Kollywood and Malayalam film industry, Rajinikanth, Ajith, Kamal Haasan, Vijay, Mohan Lal, Mammotty, director Shankar, director Siva, Dhanush, and director Karthik Subbaraju have made it to the list.