Top 20 stars today - male + female

There was a article here a week or so back Kareena Kapoor Bigger Than John Abraham which led to many emails asking for the top stars in the country including male and female. A top ten would be pointless as its basically the male stars though number ten is a close run thing between Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt. There are no female stars in the top ten but Deepika Padukone would have been at number ten before the emergence of Tiger Shroff with Baaghi 2. This would have been February and since then Alia Bhatt has become the most popular female star in the country after Raazi.

The initial of Sanju means that Ranbir Kapoor is on the coat tails of the big four. He would probably have been in the top four if Sanju was not a Rajkumar Hirani film. The below positions are not based on just box office numbers as its difficult to bring in female stars that way as the credit has to be calculated and even male stars (barring Akshay Kumar in last few films) are padded with other elements and are not totally depending on themselves for the numbers. It takes everything into account and reflects that scenario. These positions will be updated every quarter and next update will be October. The male rankings based on just purely on box office numbers will put up soon and the huge initials of Race 3 and Sanju should be reflected in that.

1. Salman Khan

2. Aamir Khan

3. Shahrukh Khan

4. Akshay Kumar

5. Ranbir Kapoor

6. Hrithik Roshan

7. Tiger Shroff

8. Varun Dhawan

9. Ajay Devgn

10. Ranveer Singh

11. Alia Bhatt

12. Deepika Padukone

13. Kareena Kapoor

14. Katrina Kaif

15. Arjun Kapoor

16. Anushka Sharma

17. Shahid Kapoor

18. John Abraham

19. Kangana Ranaut

20. Siddharth Malhotra