Top 20 stars -second quarter 2019

Top Twenty Stars Second Quarter 2019 - Ajay Devgn Makes Ground

Thursday 23 March 2019 11.30 ISTBox Office India Trade Network

The top twenty star list has not seen much change for the first quarter list with only Ajay Devgn going up a few places due to the initial and run of Total Dhamaal followed by a fair De De Pyaar De. There is not a challenge in sight for the leading star Salman Khan. You expect one of the younger guys to make a push but its just not happenning at the moment. Either the openings are not quite there or then the films dont work and then there is no consolidation when you have a big one with long gaps between films.

There are younger actors coming through and a few of the places outside top ten are by default as the newer actors have given hits but no initials and and the next few films will tell where they stand. If you are unable to get an initial it can be pack up any time though you can get leverage of a star from the media if the film works but it does not last.

The importance of younger stars is huge to the industry as it is star driven and will be for sometime to come. There can be talk that the Hollywood route where technology is above stars can work here if there were no budget constraints but it makes no difference as you still need a big star face to take a big risk in India. The success of Bahubali - The Conclusion makes a case for a face is not needed but that film also did not need the Hindi business for recovery, it had star director for its own markets which was enough, the Hindi business came as a huge bonus.

The third quarter 2018 update can be seen here. The fourth quarter 2018 update can be seen here.

The first quarter 2019 update can be see here.

The below positions are not based on just box office numbers butt takes everything into account and reflects that scenario. The positions of the last quarter are in brackets. The next update will be in Aug / Sep 2019.

1. Salman Khan (1)

2. Aamir Khan (2)

3. Shahrukh Khan (3)

4. Akshay Kumar (4)

5. Ranbir Kapoor (5)

6. Hrithik Roshan (6)

7. Ranveer Singh (7)

8. Ajay Devgn (10)

9. Tiger Shroff (7)

10. Varun Dhawan (8)

11. Alia Bhatt (11)

12. Deepika Padukone (12)

13. Kareena Kapoor (13)

14. John Abraham (14)

15. Katrina Kaif (15)

16. Kangana Ranaut (16)

17. Shahid Kapoor (17)

18. Arjun Kapoor (18)

19. Anushka Sharma (19)

20. Shraddha Kapoor (20)

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Arjun is still living off his 2 states, half girlfriend openings lol! What a waste.😆

Originally posted by: shogun

Arjun is still living off his 2 states, half girlfriend openings lol! What a waste.😆

What is your opinion on Ranbir still having the 5th position with no releases recently and getting all the credit for Sanju by BOI?

Rest all is fine but john and arjun on the list are a joke.

Originally posted by: Eggon_Snow

What is your opinion on Ranbir still having the 5th position with no releases recently and getting all the credit for Sanju by BOI?

Well I still hold the OG 5 of the 90s and Hrithik above the young guns. The top 4 "youngsters" (RK, Ranveer, Tiger, Varun) are pretty interchangeable in my opinion. Depends on the last Friday, with proper context.

Well I know BOI always has had a soft spot for RK, anointed him as the "undoubted Prince of Bollywood" right after Bachna Ae Haseeno opening. For Sanju initially, they touted it as a Raju Hirani driven movie but their tone changed after it opened strongly at places where Hirani movies never opened as well. They even wrote an article on it as well. Make of it what you will.

Sanju - The Ranbir Kapoor Factor

Thursday 05 July 2018 10.45 IST

Box Office India Trade Network

Sanju has emerged the biggest blockbuster of the year and generally the film is looked at as a Rajkumar Hirani film which is fair as its basically four blockbusters in a row now and his first film also did well. But it also has to be said that a Rajkumar Hirani film has never got off to a flyer like this in the North and there Ranbir Kapoor is a factor.

Raj Kumar Hirani has made five films till date and generally they are very Mumbai films barring PK which was more universal. Films like Munnabhai MBBS, Lage Raho Munnabhai and 3 Idiots all took time in the North to catch up with Mumbai. The first film Munnabhai MBBS did not even do that well outside Mumbai and South. Now Sanju is a similar Mumbai film be it setting, underworld, drugs or in language so North to be less than Mumbai initially is par for the course as films with a bigger canvas, scale and larger than life setting is preferred.

But the popularity that Ranbir Kapoor has in Delhi NCR and East Punjab ensured that North was as strong as Mumbai. This popularity showed even in the collections of Besharam years back as that film had opening figures like the Shahrukh Khan starrer Chennai Express (which released a few months earlier) in the North but much lower elsewhere. Even an extended guest appearance in Roy was driven by Delhi / UP and East Punjab.

The problem after was the films with those Euro directors like Anurag Basu, Imtiaz Ali and Anurag Kashyap whose films are made in India but the story telling style is like some art circuit European director but sadly for them the Indian audience needs to be fed the story the Indian way.

So here there was no chance of telling whether the popularity that Ranbir Kapoor had gained in the North which was close to superstar status was intact as no one was really going to come and watch those films. But then comes a film like Sanju which actually did not have the look for the North audience but was interesting and had a super hit song for North in Kar Har Maidan Fateh and that popularity is there again to see in the numbers of Delhi / UP and East Punjab.

The six day numbers are on par with a North based wrestling film like Dangal which should not really be happening but that is the popularity of Ranbir Kapoor in those markets. The huge numbers in the North are due to Ranbir Kapoor as would not have come with any other actor in this film. No doubt a good Salman Khan action film can go higher but in a Mumbai based film even a Salman Khan could struggle to give these sort of numbers.

If we look at the scenario today if one guy can have the popularity of Ranbir Kapoor in North and Tiger Shroff in Maharashtra, Nizam / Andhra and Bihar then that actor would be the top star in the country. The age factor is going to hit the Khans soon where it will be a struggle to play characters with huge appeal for the youth and at that time the younger stars must have the correct films to capitalize on this and take the holiday spots. The mega stardom will never come from a biopic though as the actor is unable to leave his stamp on the character like a Shahrukh Khan did in DDLJ or Salman Khan in Dabangg. The next year or two these stars and others like Varun Dhawan and Ranveer Singh must have the right films which work in a big way all over as if only they work then they will have those high budget films when that transition comes of the old guard handing the torch the young guard. The only thing is the young guard will not be so young when it happens (unless someone comes out of the blue) due to hugely sustaining innings by the Khans.

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Originally posted by: JungFrau

Rest all is fine but john and arjun on the list are a joke.

With all due respect, John has THREE double-digit openings over his last 7 movies with the highest being 20 crores. He ain't doing too shabby. He is 100% bigger at box office than the ones mentioned after him here.

BOI is a fcuking joke . If I didn’t know better I would have guessed someone from here writes for them . 😒🤦🏼‍♀️ Lusts on salman, varun and tiger .. hates Ranveer .

Seriously, Ranbir greater than Ranveer is joke. Ranbir is a flop actor and if not for Rajkumar hirani , Sanju would have been a flop. Talk about his audience draw after Brahmastr. And Deepika is a golden goose as her track record is very good.👌 Having Alia before Deepika is a joke of the century. Alia comes in the category of Kriti Sanon ,Tapsi Pannu and Shraddha Kapoor . Too much of unnecessary hyping of Aloobir is going on.

Boi hates Ranveer. I always knew it. The way they tried to malign the success of GullyBoy.

Kangana in Top 5 among actresses is a big deal, No matter how much I dislike her antics, this is the reason she is in the industry even though most people she does not gel with and has a fight