Shah Rukh Khan is the richest Bollywood actor as of November 2026, with a net worth we estimate at about $1.06 billion (roughly ?10,000 crore). This ranking covers male actors who built their careers in Hindi-language cinema, counting what their films, endorsements, production houses and side businesses have added up to. Rupee figures are converted at about ?94 to the dollar, the rate in November 2026.
Bollywood money has changed shape. A generation ago, the richest stars owned bungalows and a few hit films. Today the top of this list owns cricket teams, clothing labels, cinema chains and visual effects studios, and the biggest fortunes are made off screen.
| Rank | Name | Net worth (USD) | Main source of wealth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Shahid Kapoor | $30 million | Film and streaming fees, endorsements |
| 9 | Ranveer Singh | $40 million | Film fees, endorsements |
| 8 | Ajay Devgn | $55 million | Films, production, NY Cinemas |
| 7 | Ranbir Kapoor | $65 million | Film fees, endorsements, investments |
| 6 | Hrithik Roshan | $90 million | Films, HRX fitness brand |
| 5 | Aamir Khan | $200 million | Films and profit shares, Aamir Khan Productions |
| 4 | Akshay Kumar | $240 million | Film fees, endorsements, production |
| 3 | Amitabh Bachchan | $285 million | Films, television, family office investments, real estate |
| 2 | Salman Khan | $320 million | Films, television hosting, Being Human |
| 1 | Shah Rukh Khan | $1.06 billion | Red Chillies Entertainment, Knight Riders, films |
Bollywood’s richest actors, counted down
10. Shahid Kapoor: $30 million
Shahid Kapoor first showed up on screen as a backup dancer in music videos and Bollywood songs before landing a lead role in 2003. For years he was the charming younger star who never quite broke into the top tier. Then came Kabir Singh in 2019, a remake of a Telugu hit, which earned more than ?370 crore worldwide and reset his price.
He moved early into streaming, headlining the Prime Video series Farzi in 2023, about a struggling artist who prints counterfeit money. Streaming platforms pay well and pay up front, which suits an actor whose box office record is uneven. He followed with Deva in 2025.
Estimates for Shahid cluster between ?225 crore and ?300 crore, and we sit near the top of that range at about $30 million.
9. Ranveer Singh: $40 million
Ranveer Singh is the loudest dresser in Indian cinema and one of its most bankable leading men. He came from an advertising background, debuted in Band Baaja Baaraat in 2010, and hit a run of period epics with director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, including Bajirao Mastani and Padmaavat.
His endorsement roster is among the longest in Bollywood, and his film fees have climbed with it. For the 2025 spy thriller Dhurandhar, his fee was reported at about ?50 crore, which puts him in the top bracket of his generation.
Reported estimates run from about ?360 crore to ?400 crore, so we use roughly $40 million, built mostly from fees and brand deals.
8. Ajay Devgn: $55 million
The son of action director Veeru Devgan, Ajay made his entrance in 1991 by doing the splits between two moving motorcycles in Phool Aur Kaante. Three decades later he is the face of two of Hindi cinema’s most profitable franchises, the Singham cop films and the Drishyam thrillers.
Ajay thinks like an owner. His production company, Ajay Devgn FFilms, has backed many of his hits, and he built NY Cinemas, a small multiplex chain, plus the visual effects studio NY VFXwaala. In 2025 he kept the pipeline moving with Raid 2 and Son of Sardaar 2.
Published figures for Ajay range from about ?427 crore to ?600 crore. Our model lands at about $55 million, with his production and cinema businesses valued conservatively.
7. Ranbir Kapoor: $65 million
Ranbir Kapoor is Bollywood royalty by birth: grandson of Raj Kapoor, son of Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh. Family names open doors, but his money is self-earned. His 2023 film Animal was one of the biggest Hindi hits ever, earning around ?900 crore worldwide and pushing his asking price to between ?50 crore and ?70 crore a film.
Off screen he co-owns the football club Mumbai City FC and has a clothing label, ARKS. His next big bet is Ramayana, a two-part mythological epic with one of the largest budgets ever attempted in Indian cinema, with Ranbir playing Lord Ram.
Two separate estimates put him near ?600 crore, which is where our figure of roughly $65 million comes from.
6. Hrithik Roshan: $90 million
Hrithik Roshan‘s debut, Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai in 2000, reportedly brought him tens of thousands of marriage proposals in a matter of weeks. He has spent the years since being Bollywood’s best dancer and the star of the Krrish superhero films, directed by his father, Rakesh Roshan.
His real money move came in 2013 with HRX, a fitness and athleisure brand he co-founded. HRX grew fast through online fashion retail, and Myntra now owns a majority of the company behind it, so the size of Hrithik’s remaining stake is not public. In 2025 he starred in the spy sequel War 2, and he is set to direct Krrish 4.
We put him at about ?820 crore, or roughly $90 million. The pieces we can see are his Mumbai home, valued at about ?97.5 crore, his half of office units worth about ?68.75 crore and a Cult.fit stake of around ?25 crore. On top of those we add a cautious value for his HRX share and his savings from 25 years of film fees. Much bigger figures circulate, but none of them shows its working.
5. Aamir Khan: $200 million
They call Aamir Khan “Mr. Perfectionist,” and his bank balance reflects a rare deal structure. Instead of taking only a large up-front fee, Aamir has long taken a share of a film’s profits. When the film is Dangal, which grossed around ?2,000 crore worldwide thanks to a huge run in China, that share becomes a fortune.
He makes one film every few years and produces through Aamir Khan Productions, the banner behind Lagaan, Taare Zameen Par and Dangal. In 2025 he tried something new with Sitaare Zameen Par: after its theatrical run, he skipped the big streaming platforms and released it as a pay-per-view rental on YouTube.
A 2026 estimate puts Aamir at about ?1,860 crore, and our own number of about $200 million rests on his profit-share income and production catalogue.
4. Akshay Kumar: $240 million
Akshay Kumar is Bollywood’s hardest worker, and the numbers prove it. While most stars release one film a year, he has often released four or five. That volume, plus a long list of endorsements, made him a regular on the global list of the world’s highest-paid entertainers in the late 2010s.
Born Rajiv Bhatia in Amritsar, he worked as a chef and martial arts instructor in Bangkok before modeling got him into films. He owns the Bengal Warriors kabaddi team and produces through his own banner, and he still keeps up a steady release schedule into 2026.
Published figures for Akshay run from about ?2,000 crore to ?2,500 crore. We take a careful middle at about $240 million, since his name did not appear in India’s main 2026 rich list.
3. Amitabh Bachchan: $285 million
Amitabh Bachchan is the rare star who has been rich, nearly broke and rich again. He became the “angry young man” of 1970s cinema with Zanjeer and Sholay. In the late 1990s, his company ABCL ran into heavy debt, and he was reportedly close to bankruptcy.
The rescue came in 2000, when he agreed to host Kaun Banega Crorepati, the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The show became a phenomenon and he has hosted it for most seasons since. Now in his eighties, he still acts, endorses brands and invests through a family office, with a large property portfolio across Mumbai.
His wife Jaya Bachchan’s sworn 2024 election affidavit put the couple’s assets at about ?1,578 crore. We add his reported income since then after tax, a rise in property values and growth on the investments, and reach about ?2,660 crore, or roughly $285 million. Higher figures for his family office holdings circulate, but they are not itemized anywhere we can check.
2. Salman Khan: $320 million
Salman Khan has been a box office draw for more than 35 years, since Maine Pyar Kiya in 1989, and his Eid releases are a fixture of the Indian calendar. His Tiger spy films and Bajrangi Bhaijaan are among the highest-grossing Hindi films of the past decade.
Television is his second engine. He has hosted the reality show Bigg Boss since 2010, reportedly earning a very large fee per season. He also built Being Human, a clothing brand whose profits support his charitable foundation, and he produces through Salman Khan Films.
Salman entered India’s main rich list for the first time in 2026 at about ?3,000 crore. That is the anchor for our $320 million estimate.
1. Shah Rukh Khan: $1.06 billion
Shah Rukh Khan arrived in Mumbai from Delhi in the early 1990s with television credits and no film connections. He became the biggest star in the world that most Western audiences had never heard of, the romantic lead of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, a film that played in one Mumbai cinema for more than 25 years.
His fortune comes from owning things. In 2002 he and his wife, Gauri Khan, founded Red Chillies Entertainment, which produces films and runs a visual effects studio. In 2008 he co-founded the Kolkata Knight Riders cricket franchise with actress Juhi Chawla and her husband, Jay Mehta. Then in 2023, Pathaan and Jawan each crossed ?1,000 crore at the global box office, and Red Chillies produced Jawan.
His 2026 rich list figure fell to about ?10,000 crore from ?12,490 crore in 2025, as private valuations were marked down. He has not had a release since 2023, and his next film, King, is set for December 24. Our valuation tracks that 2026 figure, with Red Chillies and the cricket stake doing most of the work.
Special mentions
- Juhi Chawla: India’s 2025 rich list put her and her family at about ?7,790 crore, more than any actor except Shah Rukh Khan. Most of that comes from the Knight Riders stake and her husband’s business, and she did not appear in the 2026 list.
- Saif Ali Khan: Often quoted at around ?1,200 crore, but a large share is inherited family property, including Pataudi Palace, so we left him outside the ten.
- Karan Johar: The director and producer was valued at ?1,880 crore in 2025 after selling half of Dharma Productions to Adar Poonawalla. He is a filmmaker, not primarily an actor.
What the richest Bollywood actors have in common
The top five all own something that earns when they are not on set. Shah Rukh has a studio and a cricket team, Salman has a clothing brand and a TV show, Amitabh has a family office, and Akshay and Aamir run production houses. Hrithik shows the limit of a celebrity brand: HRX carries his initials, but most of the company belongs to someone else. Below the top five, actors who live mostly on fees top out at well under $100 million, however famous they are.
Age is a big factor. Every actor in the top five is past 50, and Amitabh is in his mid-eighties. A long career gives decades of compounding fees, property bought cheap in 1990s Mumbai and the time to build something that pays dividends.
Profit sharing beats a fat cheque. Aamir Khan’s habit of taking a cut of the box office earned him more from a single film like Dangal than many actors earn in ten years. Bollywood’s younger stars have noticed, and more of them now ask for back-end deals.
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Who is the richest Bollywood actor in 2026?
Shah Rukh Khan, with a net worth of about ?10,000 crore, or roughly $1.06 billion. Most of it comes from Red Chillies Entertainment and his stake in the Knight Riders cricket franchise.
Is Shah Rukh Khan a billionaire?
By our estimate, just about. India’s 2025 rich list valued him at ?12,490 crore (around $1.4 billion at the time), and the 2026 list cut that to about ?10,000 crore, which is still just over $1 billion.
How much is Amitabh Bachchan worth?
We estimate about $285 million, or roughly ?2,660 crore, built from the couple’s sworn 2024 asset declaration plus later income, property and investment growth.
Who is the youngest actor on the list?
Ranveer Singh, born in 1985, is the youngest. Ranbir Kapoor, born in 1982, is the second youngest.
How much does the 10th richest Bollywood actor have?
Shahid Kapoor rounds out the ten with about $30 million, or roughly ?280 crore.
How do Bollywood actors make most of their money?
Film fees and endorsements pay the bills, but the biggest fortunes come from ownership: production houses, sports teams, consumer brands and property.
How we estimate net worth
Our estimates are based on public reporting, company valuations, and deal and earnings figures all compiled in an internal valuation model. They are approximate, and figures change over time as new information emerges.
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Last updated: November 2026.
