Rajinikanth and Salman Khan
Rajinikanth and Salman Khan feature in Forbes Celebrity 100 India list.Varinder Chawla

Rajinikanth is at the 14th place in the Forbes Celebrity India 100 list for the year 2018. The list is topped by Salman Khan, who has occupied the numero uno position for the third time in a row. He is followed by Virat Kohli, Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone and Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

As per the report, Rajinikanth's income for 2018 stands at Rs 50 crore. Apart from him, eight other actors from Kollywood - Vijay (earnings: Rs 30.33 crore ), Vikram (earnings: Rs 26 crore), Suriya (Rs 23.67 crore), Vijay Sethupathi (Rs 23.67 crore), Dhanush (Rs 17.25 crore), Nayanthara (earnings: Rs 15.17 crore) and Kamal Haasan (earnings: Rs: 14.2 crore) - are in the top 100 list.

AR Rahman is ranked at 11th place as he earned Rs 66.75 crore in 2018. Apart from the aforementioned names, many celebrities from South Indian film industry have been featured in the list.

Pawan Kalyan, Junior NTR, Mahesh Babu, Nagarjuna, Allu Arjun, Ram Charan, Vijay Deverakonda, Mammootty and Taapsee Pannu are celebrities from South Indian film industry named in the Forbes Celebrity 100 list. It has to be noted that no celebrity from Kannada film industry has found a place.

Forbes has taken the estimated earnings of the celebs and their media visibility. Below, we bring you the complete list:

Ranking Names Earning in Crores
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
35 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
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