After Tiger Zinda Hai emerged a blockbuster, Salman Khan has now accumulated 3200 crore in terms of adjusted ticket price nett gross for his top ten grossers since 1994. This gives an average of 320 crore nett per film as compared to 276 crore nett for Shahrukh Khan and 263 crore nett for Aamir Khan.
If we push to the top twenty HIT films then Salman Khan retains a 600 crore nett lead over Shahrukh Khan but twenty is pushing it because only Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan have 20 hits that are also grossers also. Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn also have 20 plus hits but some of them are not big grossers.
Aamir Khan, Hrithik Roshan and the others have not reached the 20 HIT film mark yet. Below are the accumalated adjusted nett gross (average in brackets) for the biggest 10 films of each actor since 1994.
Salman Khan - 3200 crore (320 cr per film)
Shahrukh Khan - 2755 crore (276 cr per film)
Aamir Khan - 2625 crore (263 cr per film)
Hrithik Roshan - 1950 crore (195 cr per film)
Ajay Devgn - 1640 crore (164 cr per film)
Akshay Kumar - 1520 crore (152 cr per film)
There is gas left in tank for most of these actors and things could alter in the next five years or so. The top two Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan could be among the all time greats if they can hold here or push up a little. It will have to be a 20 or 25 or maybe even 30 HIT film comparison with the greats like Dilip Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan who should have the hugr number of HITS and all of them being big grossers to compete with the big two of today. The Salman Khan average with 20 HIT films is 243 crore and Shahrukh Khan is at 212 crore at the moment.
A silver jubilee (25) of HITS in a career is a probably a must to be among the greats as very few heroes will have reached this target in the 100 year plus history of Hindi cinema. Then to seperate the few who have reached there, its about how high your average is with these 25 HITS.
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