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The Board

Who's actually on top.

Tap a tier chip to spotlight a lane · Tap any actor for the full breakdown

GOAT
Untouchable
3 Actors
01 Raj Kapoor 02 Dilip Kumar 03 Amitabh Bachchan
OG
The Originals
2 Actors
01 Raaj Kumar 02 Amrish Puri
A+
Box Office Royalty
4 Actors
02 Shahrukh Khan 🌟👎🏻 03 Akshay Kumar 😂 04 Salman Khan 🌟👎🏻 👵🏼 05 Aamir Khan 🌟👎🏻 👵🏼
A
Star Power Confirmed
5 Actors
01 Ranveer Singh 02 Ajay Devgn 03 Dhanush 04 Alia Bhatt 👩🏻‍🍼 05 Sonam Bajwa
A−
Almost Legendary
12 Actors
01 Vicky Kaushal 02 Shahid Kapoor 03 Hrithik Roshan 04 Ranbir Kapoor 05 Kriti Sanon 06 Deepika Padukone 👩🏻‍🍼 07 Ananya Panday 08 Katrina Kaif 🌟👎🏻 👩🏻‍🍼 09 Kareena Kapoor 👩🏻‍🍼 10 Shraddha Kapoor 11 Priyanka Chopra 12 John Abraham
B
Reliable Names
24 Actors
01 Kartik Aaryan 02 Mrunal Thakur 03 Rakul Preet Singh 04 Tripti Dimri 05 Varun Dhawan 06 Sara Ali Khan 07 Kiara Advani 08 Vikrant Massey 09 Manoj Bajpayee 10 Pankaj Tripathi 11 Emraan Hashmi 12 Yami Gautam 13 Nawazuddin Siddiqui 14 Ali Fazal 15 Sara Arjun 16 Janhvi Kapoor 17 Siddhant Chaturvedi 18 Anushka Sharma 👵🏼 19 Shahana Goswami 20 Tiger Shroff 21 Ayushmann Khurrana 22 Sidharth Malhotra 23 Arjun Kapoor 24 Saif Ali Khan 👩🏻‍🍼
B−
Rising & Niche
18 Actors
01 R Madhavan 02 Kay Kay Menon 03 Gulshan Devaiah 04 Rajkummar Rao Yadav 05 Sharvari Wagh 06 Taapsee Pannu 07 Divyenndu 08 Alaya F 09 Jaideep Ahlawat 10 Rasha Thadani 11 Riteish Deshmukh 12 Radhika Apte 13 Abhishek Banerjee 14 Vineet Kumar Singh 15 Vijay Varma 16 Aneet Padda 17 Pratik Gandhi 18 Jim Sarbh
C
Work In Progress
12 Actors
01 Parineeti Chopra 👵🏼 02 Ahaan Panday 03 Sunny Singh 04 Sonakshi Sinha 👵🏼 05 Gajraj Rao 06 Bhumi Pednekar 07 Sobhita Dhulipala 08 Sanjay Mishra 09 Shefali Shah 10 Boman Irani 11 Konkona Sen Sharma 12 Rajat Kapoor

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The Algorithm

How the math works.

Zero Human Bias

Nothing on this board is opinion-based or hand-curated. Every placement is generated by our proprietary engine, which continuously processes and weighs all six signal groups below. The algorithm has no favourites, holds no grudges, and takes no phone calls.

01 Quantitative

The Financial Engine

Hard numbers that dictate market price.

  • Opening Day Pull — Absolute ticket volume on Day 1, independent of reviews. A true A-lister pulls ₹30+ Crore on pure star power.
  • Opening Weekend Multiplier — Friday-to-Sunday growth, showing whether the baseline audience sustains momentum.
  • Lifetime Domestic Box Office — Membership in the ₹100, ₹300 and ₹500 Crore clubs.
  • Overseas Draw — Bankability across USA, Canada, UK, UAE and Australia — separating regional stars from global icons.
  • Return on Investment — Revenue against budget. High-ROI actors in mid-budget cinema command serious respect.
  • Pre-Release Revenue — Satellite, digital and music rights pricing secured before a single ticket sells.
02 Qualitative

Fandom & Cultural Capital

The emotional equity held with the masses.

  • Fandom Intensity — Organised fan clubs orchestrating grassroots celebrations and dominating online trends.
  • Cross-Demographic Appeal — Reach across mass and class, single-screen and multiplex, and multiple generations at once.
  • Pop Culture Trendsetting — Power to move fashion, hairstyles and catchphrases into everyday slang.
  • Socio-Cultural Resonance — Embodying the spirit of an era — Angry Young Man, NRI Romantic, Small-Town Hustler.
  • Resilience to Backlash — Surviving controversy and boycott cycles without losing consumer engagement.
03 Commercial

Brand Equity & Corporate Value

How corporate India prices the name.

  • Endorsement Portfolio — Category of brands signed — luxury and blue-chip FMCG versus regional and mass-market.
  • Fee Per Day — Market value for commercial shoots and brand appearances.
  • Social Media Footprint — Follower counts weighed against genuine engagement rates and sentiment.
  • Brand Safety Index — How controversy-free and reliable the actor reads to multinationals.
  • Agency Alignment — Strength of the talent management machinery behind the career.
04 Infrastructure

Industry Leverage & B2B Power

Control and freedom behind closed doors.

  • Longevity — Ten, twenty, thirty-plus years as a leading draw is its own tier of stardom.
  • Flop Cushion — Top-tier stars absorb four or five major misses without losing premium positioning.
  • Power Banner Access — Standing with YRF, Dharma, Maddock, Red Chillies and Jio Studios.
  • Director Equity — Calibre of filmmakers writing scripts tailored to the persona.
  • Production Infrastructure — Owning a banner to self-fund projects and command profit-sharing.
  • Script Sense — Track record of reading cultural trends before the market catches up.
05 The Craft

Artistic Capital & Craft

What sustains a career through dry spells.

  • Versatility & Range — Moving between divergent genres without breaking audience belief.
  • Screen Presence — The unquantifiable X-factor — magnetic, attention-holding power.
  • Critical Acclaim — National Film Awards, Filmfare and the wider legacy layer.
  • Transformation Rigor — Extreme physical commitment in service of a role.
  • Musicality & Dance — Ability to anchor a chartbuster as a standalone crowd-puller.
06 Modern Era

Macro-Market Adaptability

Traditional stars versus future-proofed icons.

  • Pan-India Crossover — Drawing genuine crowds in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam markets.
  • OTT Viewership Equity — Netflix, Prime and Hotstar performance. A Global Non-English Top 10 slot is a serious cushion.
  • Frequency vs Exclusivity — The balance between appearing too often and vanishing long enough to lose recall.
  • Corporate Bookings — Studio alignment for advance block bookings that secure an opening floor.
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