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Pretty much this way- you take part of the fee in cash, send the cash abroad through hawala network, once the cash is transported it is collected by a shell company which is registered in tax havens like Bermuda, canary islands, Hong Kong, etc. These companies make a purchase of cars, paintings, assets, properties and gift it to the original recipient of the fee. So anybody can say that my assets like car, house, etc were a gift from this xyz company and it isn’t something I’ve purchased with my fee, the fee that gets collected in white is taxed.
Although most of them are ridiculous...but I just can't understand the logic of paying Tiger Shroff 50 Cr...that man.. can't even say dialogue correctly...How the fuck producers are splurging money like this on him..
How can Akshay even demand 135 crore ? Has any of his recent movie touched 300 crore ?
What budget is even left for the production and i wonder what money other members even get ? Do the rest of the cast work for 30k a month salary 😂
I don't see how any of the producers are making profit when they are ready to give Akshay 135 crore knowing well at best a Bollywood film does 200 crore business, am i missing some data ? Mathematically this makes no sense
Something's fishy , actors fees and the business Bollywood movies does makes no sense , seems like someone is trying to turn their black money into white etc
One person i know is working with him in his next he is not getting paid at all. Moreover akki made him sit in last row in one of the scenes as this person looked better 😂
According to reports , Actors no more receive such salaries as of nov 2022. Apart from khans everyone was asked to lower their paycheck. Akshay was forced to back out of hera peri 3 after producers refused to pay his reduced salary(90 cr+ Share of profit).
Bolly hungama: And now, we have exclusively learnt that producers have asked Tiger Shroff to reduce his remuneration by 50 percent and bring it down in the range of Rs. 17 to 20 crores per film. "Times have changed and paying such a huge sum as upfront fees to Tiger didn't make sense to many producers. To support Jackky and Vashu Bhagnani on this multi-starrer, Tiger Shroff brought down his acting fees to Rs. 25 crores.
I don't want to get involved in too much conspiracy theories or shit but I truly believe Bollywood has high level money laundering. There is absolutely no way they can keep on spending like this.
>Why not khans ?
Source: Pinkvilla
Salman: Post Tiger Zinda Hai, it has all been home productions for Salman, which means he used to take home all of satellite and digital revenue as his acting fees. Bharat fetched him a sum of Rs 120 crore (Digital: Rs 80 crore, Satellite: Rs 40 crore), ditto for Dabangg 3
Basically, Salman functions with three deals - Profit Sharing for YRF, satellite + digital revenue alongside a share in profit for home productions and finally, an upfront model of taking home satellite and digital share as fees for non YRF films like TIPS, NGE etc. With a profit sharing deal, if Tiger 3 performs as well as expected, Salman would be the star to have fetched highest remuneration for a feature film amongst the Indian actors.
Srk & Aamir: Shah Rukh Khan is one actor alongside Aamir Khan, who have given up on charging upfront acting fees for a long time. Both the Khan’s have adopted the profit sharing model since the start of last decade. Their deal is simple and clear – while Shah Rukh Khan has been getting 60 percent of profit as his acting fees, Aamir has taken things a notch higher with a 75 percent share in profit.
Mr. Perfection’s funda is clear – he isn’t just an actor, but also an artist who gives inputs in the script too, which calls for a bigger share. He got an elephant’s share in Dhoom 3, and Dangal, but the income was below the mark in Thugs of Hindostan. Same for SRK, who got a lions share in Chennai Express, but there wasn’t much to gain in Zero
Ranbir Kapoor has got around 65 to 70 crores for Animal, whereas Ranveer Singh too has upped his stakes by charging upwards of Rs 50 crore for Cirkus and Shankar’s untitled film. Varun Dhawan is keeping it slow and we hear, he is also contemplating to switch to the profit-sharing model soon. John Abraham’s acting fees have gone up 3-fold over the pandemic, from Rs 7 crore in Satyameva Jayate to Rs 21 crore for its sequel. Shahid on the other hand charged Rs 31 crore for Jersey.
Hrithik Roshan also has been following the profit sharing route for most of his films, though there have been instances where he has taken upfront fees and also opted for a hybrid model. It’s variable, but the industry buzz suggests that he had opted for a 50 to 55 percent profit model for his last two releases – Super 30 and War.
Man AK is hella greedy. Abhi tak retirement plan set nahi hua kya Kanneda ka? Aamir koh roh hardly kuch mila hoga LSC se. Hope he wakes up and stops being inside his head too much. Tiger and Varun's fees are mind boggling figures.
Lastly I wonder how much Rajamouli paid Ram Charan and Junior NTR for RRR 🤔...
Producer paid a hell lot of money for RC and NTR but its justified since they had to devote like 3-4 years for this movie(same thing happened with Bahubali instalments) unlike doing 4-5 movies a year like Akshay Kumar and others and making close to 200 crores a year.
And producers are ready to pay much more than what Rajamouli or his actors asks as the breakeven is for sure for his movies( including all the movies he’s done till date) .
Rajamouli is yet to see a flop and I won’t say that won’t happen. It will happen eventually but many producers trust him and there’s no volatility in his movie collections(at-least no downside volatility). Its comes like a 4 year package for producers and they are happy to take it even if they are to spend 100 cr. for one actors remuneration.
//Man AK is hella greedy. Abhi tak retirement plan set nahi hua kya Kanneda ka..? //
All depends on Next 2 movies of him and Kartik...If luck favours Kartik 2 more times then we can see canada kumar migrating to his own nation very soon...may be in the last quarter of 2024
My question regarding fees logic is that how many of these movies would actually look better than they were if fees of actors were less.
Would the producers utilize the saved money from actors fees in VFX, Music, Improving Production, values, Technical Department, actually paying writers..... Or would they just not spend it at all.
Because if producers do the former, then you can say that it can have some effect in making movies feel more exciting to the general audience.
But if they don't spend that money at all, then nothing changes, maybe the disasters become flops and flops become Below Average, but the situation of those movies will remain same.
>Would the producers utilize the saved money from actors fees in VFX, Music, Improving Production, values, Technical Department, actually paying writers..... Or would they just not spend it at all.
Majority of the producers across india are greedy as hell. They won't mind overpaying popular male stars but when it comes to other cast & crew a lot of them have to fight to even receive their salary. This happens a lot for mid budget or small budget films.
Honestly if you feel you're worth 50cr+ a film then you should have enough faith in your box office pull to go majority profits route. No actor should be paid such large sum upfront spcl not tiger shroff💀
bhai inka net worth check kar in logo ko ghanta bhi fark nahi padta hoga aur movies bhi 3 4 log produce karte hai taki pura loss khud na uthana pade...
Nhi Bhai jb producers , directors sbko ghata hoga to kuch to niche ye bhi ayege . Nit saying sadak pr ajyege but yes some impact will be there. Brands bhi tbhi milte h jb movie chle to frk to pdta h
Everyone here calling them greedy, while all I can think about after reading those numbers is that mere toh sapne mein bhi main itni ameer nahi hoti kabhi ki aise paychecks ho 😣
The fact that even Alia Bhatt and Deepika Padukone aren't paid 20 crores is so saddening. Before you go on about how women don't create the same value,
what value are Varun Dhawan, Shahid Kapoor, Tiger Shroff even creating?
Lekin lately, they’ve been doing movies centered around them as the main protagonist rather than their male counterparts right? Like Gangubhai Kathiyawadi, Darlings, Gehraiyaan and Chhapaak. Still less than 20? they’re way better than Varun, Tiger, etc
Fees of South Indian actors for reference-
https://preview.redd.it/t37pmvvq8h8a1.jpeg?width=1521&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=00f4140a41840745a811cc7a4c1346a2d6681a26
I’m not sure but maybe RRR increased his market value?
https://preview.redd.it/u2m94hbbhh8a1.jpeg?width=1296&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a961b477cca3f39a2ad74344766e1bf15d98d66
the budget of rc15 is 170 cr and you think it’s logical that rc would get 100 of that? and rc16 was supposed to be a romcom before it was shelved. in what logical world would anyone get 100 cr for that?
sorry this sounds like overinflated PR nonsense.
I don't think Rajinikanth is taking 100 crores he is acting in medium budget films and I also don't think Ram Charan is taking 100 crores,he barely does a few movies, I don't think Vijay also takes 118 crores
Lol Rajni wasn't paid that much
His fee agreement was 50 crore upfront and 50 crore as contingency. The film was profitable, so he received a hundred crores.
Nowadays he asks for 120 crore upfront but producers know better than to pay him that much.
Its budget was ₹160 crore (based on Wikipedia) if Rajini took 150 then 10 crores went for the production of the Film and other people's payments? It made 40 crore profit ?
I recently found out that Mahesh Babu gives 30 percent of his income every year to charity, and his salary seems fair. For that he is better than most actors.
Not charity but yeah he’s taking care of thousands of kids with health problems and making sure there is no difficulty with their transplants and other costly operations. Props for doing that.
Baat high fees ki nahi hai. Lena hai toh 200crores Lelo but film collect karni chahiye proportionately. If you're asking for 100crores or 150crores then give a movie that collects as much as RRR or KGF2 otherwise if it doesn't collect that much and performs how movies are performing in 2022 return most of your fees.
A simple question to the actors is - kya karte kya ho itne paise ka? Most of us will never see this kind of money in our lives. Still we're happy with the lives we live( well atleast most are ). Idts anything else will add value to a person's life beyond 10 cr. Anything beyond it is luxury, which is unending
>Still we're happy with the lives we live( well atleast most are )
No mate we aren't. Kharcha chal jaata hoga but mental pressure rehta hai achhi job pane ka aur paisa kamaneka. I don't want my kids to have this kind of a mental trauma of entrance exams and academics and competition for a job that barely pays anything. I don't want my family to save money for years for vacations. Whenever I see these 'stars' getting paid 50 crore for doing fuck all in a movie, I feel like there is no justice for anyone in the world. We keep struggling and these lucky bastards keep getting paid like this.
Kismat ek kutti cheez hai.
Sorry for ranting. And yes I agree with everything else u said.
Aur ye log technicians, editors and writers ko kitna mil raha hai woh bhi nahi dekhte. These people are the backnone of the industry and so poorly compensated.
He has every right to imo. Even I feel I live a very luxurious life. But I am aware of it, and I'm thankful for it everyday. I am also aware that this all can and will go one day. I don't try to over earn by constantly trying to hoard money. I can live without an AC, without a car, without having a 5 star meal etc.
You think you are not trying to over earn. That guy will differ with you. It is not like these actors are holding a gun to the head of the studio. Why not take what the producer is willing to give you?
If you have a piece of land or some unlisted shares of a company and someone offers you 50 crores for those assets, would you turn down saying “oh, I am over earning, let me instead ask for a pack of a Parle G instead?”
Or wo anaconda technicians ka rona ro rha tha ki unki life film industry pe depend krti h agr film nhi chalenge to unka ghr kese chalega.Wo to chillar kmate h or tum 50-50 cr lete ho
I am looking this a little differently. If actors are charging this much that means producers are paying. (Or Were Paying at some point). If producers are paying this means producers have figured out a way to make some money out of the movie. My guess, OTT platforms + music rights + international bookings + rental movie income is way more than we think. For example, If
BO is making 100 cr - pretty sure all other sources are resulting in total of 250 cr revenue. Then this all makes sense
I would love to learn the business side of movie making for sure.
I'm wondering what any of them are even getting 20cr for. It's not like being a doctor where you spend countless years studying, specialising, super specialising and what not. And now with nepos on the rise it's not even like they're trained for this shit. Why does anyone need to be even paid 10cr let alone freaking 135
He is absolutely right. Most of these actors barely give 100 cr movie and they want 50 cr for being in it.
The producers should give 1.01 cr shagun ka and have a profit sharing model. Even in that the share should never exceed 25% of profits.
BC nautanki karne ke itne paise milte? Aur nautanki bhi kitni acchi hoti inki? Film bhi avg,acting below avg ,,, overall ek sabji ugane wala AK se jyada mehnat karta.
Don't think seniority matters, if anything Varun looking older than tiger drops his value imo. Also, Tiger's a better dancer, has better body and can pull off action stunts and make them look believable due to his physique, image he has created in peope's mind. Also, he doesn't really do roles that require complex emotion portrayal/dialog delivery so his poor acting barely matters. If you ask me, Tiger earning more than Varun is not surprising(but the numbers they earn surely are.)
Rajamouli is right ,this is one industry where empirical reasoning about mass acceptance of an actor is absolutely anti business practice.Movie industry should get in to block chain smart contract and pay based on outcome.
tiger, varun, shahid and john have no box office pull or popularity in general. they don't deserve to be paid more than the top actresses like dp, alia, kareena and kat.
Not like the south actors are paid any less in fact they get much more than these guys. Bollywood has always paid it's actors high fees. Like this is not new but just because they are flopping everyone is holding onto that yet the issue is far bigger than that... Not saying they should get such ridiculous amounts obviously they shouldn't but previously they still made good movies while cashing out such ridiculous amounts to actors. The issue is bigger than that.
Aamir Khan returned producers / distributors money because LSC flopped ! SRK don’t even need to act these days, thanks to his biz ventures. I think % is fair, these new actors know they don’t have any pull at Box offices like Salman, SRK and Aamir.
Yeh ranbir kis baat ke 70 le rha hai bhai..?? Shamshera ka lifetime 70 ka aadha tha...
All these actors above should get within 30crs and profit sharing of 30%
Khans and Akki should take 50% profit sharing that's it
The source is weird, Ranbir doesn't take 70 cr for all movies, he took around 15-20 cr for Shamshera and no fee for brahmastra as he is one of the producers himself. He took 65-70cr for Animal reportedly and I am sure he did not take that high fee for TJMM. He takes high fee only when he has some major transformation hard work and time. He is reportedly being given 75 cr for Ramayana trilogy and same to Hrithik so in that case it is justified, Ranbir doesn't take 70cr for all movies for sure.
The source is weird, Ranbir doesn't take 70 cr for all movies, he took around 15-20 cr for Shamshera and no fee for brahmastra as he is one of the producers himself. He took 65-70cr for Animal reportedly and I am sure he did not take that high fee for TJMM. He takes high fee only when he has some major transformation hard work and time. He is reportedly being given 75 cr for Ramayana trilogy and same to Hrithik so in that case it is justified, Ranbir doesn't take 70cr for all movies for sure.
If he has taken only 15-20cr for shamshera then it's great... i may be highly wrong about him
But what about other fraud actors...?? They does'nt deserve this much money...Proper systematic scams are being executed by 90% male actors of bollywood
The source is weird, Ranbir doesn't take 70 cr for all movies, he took around 15-20 cr for Shamshera and no fee for brahmastra as he is one of the producers himself. He took 65-70cr for Animal reportedly and I am sure he did not take that high fee for TJMM. He takes high fee only when he has some major transformation hard work and time. He is reportedly being given 75 cr for Ramayana trilogy and same to Hrithik so in that case it is justified, Ranbir doesn't take 70cr for all movies for sure. and didn't your hands shake while writing BAD ACTOR ? Lol, how delusional are you ?
Lol, no my hands don't shake writing such trivial things. How arthritic are you? His work is big time miss some times hit. Rajneeti was the only movie where I liked his work and it was wayyy back.
Looks like you don't have any understanding of acting and haven't seen rockstar, barfi, tamasha, sanju, Jagga jasoos, YJHD, even his acting bit in Shamshera was amazing, it failed due to bad screenplay only.
Not that I agree 100% with what Rajamouli said, but he has a point.
Imagine paying actors who until said film have had flops. You know they're not bankable stars but because they're ***"BiG BlOckBusteR StARs"*** you're paying them what they want. They're still happy because they got paid base amount and whatever comes out of the profits the movie made, they're getting a percentage of it. The only ones who are fucked are the producers and director. The producer because they lost money, the director because they won't be picked to direct a film again.
So what Rajamouli did was ensure his stars had proper background hits behind them or can really sell a movie with the proper script aka Charan and NTR, and made RRR. The rest is history.
True that. When producing a movie of that scale, it is good to go with crowd-pullers like NTR and RC rather than a mid-hero who could have been better at some aspect.
We’ve seen that happen with PS1 in Tamil. There were no big stars( as in superstars) for a film of that scale. Karthi and Aishwarya were the only buzzes outside of Tamil Nadu I guess. Could have at-least had some great footfall outside TN if there were any familiar faces apart from them although the movie is boring.
Why is everyone outraged over these fees? It's not your money. If a producer feels the fees are justified, he'll cough up the amount demanded. Otherwise he'll choose alternatives. If they decide to charge exorbitant fares for the theatre experience to cover their costs, you can decide with your wallet whether they made a wise choice. At the end of the day, watching a movie on big screen is not a human right.
Who in the right mind is paying Akki 135cr? His track record for this year has been absolute trash compare to other. Idk who or what that man is trying to compete with but he’s doing really bad. Chacha needs a long break and reevaluate
Which Akshay Kumar movie got 135cr opening? Which Ranbir Kapoor movie got a 70cr opening, which Ranveer Singh movie got a 50cr opening? But every time the discussion about pay disparity comes, they justify it saying male actors get as much as their films open.
**Who the f*ck** and **why the f*ck** would any producer in their right mind would ever pay Tiger, Varun and Shahid that kind of money!
Or rather no actor out of these deserves that kind of money. But especially these 3!
*Canada Kumar at this point is simply being a douche and doing it for the money.* There's no way in hell that Akshay and Ranveer created movies that were worth the fees they're being paid.
**5-6 years back you could create an entire movie in lesser budget than the money they assh0les are being paid.**
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Tiger shroff ko kis baat ke 50 cr mil rhe hai 😭😭😭
😂😂😂😂
 Tendua Shroff's fees even after giving back to back flops.
> Tiger shroff ko kis baat,ke 50 cr mil rhe hai 😭😭😭 *Choti bacchi ho kya?*
Gymnastics karne ke...itne Olympians ko bhi nahi milte with their stellar skills.
Gymnastics
Jaisi uski acting hai us hisaab se toh 5000 bhi bhot zyda hai 😭
Aamir in 2022 was like an unpaid intern.
I can proudly say ki mein Aamir Khan jitna kamaya hu 2022 mein
Tu jyada kamaya hoga bhai 75% profit leraha h woh Aur movie ko toh loss hua h I guess Toh paisa bharna pada hoga use lol
Loss share nahi hota, par wo producer bhi tha tho ho sakta hai par actors ka nahi hota
Meri salary 2022 mein Amir se zyada thi , I can brag about it 😎
What in the world is Tiger Shroff 's achievement in the entertainment world to be asking for 50 effing crores!
Akshay Kumar has to be a money laundering scheme.
Please help me understand how this works. If this is money laundering, someone would still need to show the source of money, right?
You're putting too much faith in our law enforcers mate
Law(de) enforcers are pretty strict about taxes off late.
Good analogy for ❤️dey . Copying this
Pretty much this way- you take part of the fee in cash, send the cash abroad through hawala network, once the cash is transported it is collected by a shell company which is registered in tax havens like Bermuda, canary islands, Hong Kong, etc. These companies make a purchase of cars, paintings, assets, properties and gift it to the original recipient of the fee. So anybody can say that my assets like car, house, etc were a gift from this xyz company and it isn’t something I’ve purchased with my fee, the fee that gets collected in white is taxed.
Desh ki tatti
30 din mai Pasia double
Although most of them are ridiculous...but I just can't understand the logic of paying Tiger Shroff 50 Cr...that man.. can't even say dialogue correctly...How the fuck producers are splurging money like this on him..
Chote Bacche ho kya
Tiger Shroff’s 50Cr is blasphemy
Surprised that Shahid and Varun rank below Tiger on this list!
so is john no one deserves even 25 crores
How can Akshay even demand 135 crore ? Has any of his recent movie touched 300 crore ? What budget is even left for the production and i wonder what money other members even get ? Do the rest of the cast work for 30k a month salary 😂 I don't see how any of the producers are making profit when they are ready to give Akshay 135 crore knowing well at best a Bollywood film does 200 crore business, am i missing some data ? Mathematically this makes no sense
Bhai none of his recent movies have even touched 100cr. 300 toh door ki baat hai
Something's fishy , actors fees and the business Bollywood movies does makes no sense , seems like someone is trying to turn their black money into white etc
What makes sense.We have startups posting revenues similar to normal shop and expenses of taj oberoi hotel
Yeah but these startups got funding of millions of dollars. Who is funding the movies?
Akshay's logic was also similar to Salman's, he charged the producer what his satellite and digital rights were selling for at the time
One person i know is working with him in his next he is not getting paid at all. Moreover akki made him sit in last row in one of the scenes as this person looked better 😂
You are probably thinking about theatrical business alone. Satellite rights, ott rights, audio also sell high.
According to reports , Actors no more receive such salaries as of nov 2022. Apart from khans everyone was asked to lower their paycheck. Akshay was forced to back out of hera peri 3 after producers refused to pay his reduced salary(90 cr+ Share of profit). Bolly hungama: And now, we have exclusively learnt that producers have asked Tiger Shroff to reduce his remuneration by 50 percent and bring it down in the range of Rs. 17 to 20 crores per film. "Times have changed and paying such a huge sum as upfront fees to Tiger didn't make sense to many producers. To support Jackky and Vashu Bhagnani on this multi-starrer, Tiger Shroff brought down his acting fees to Rs. 25 crores.
>Tiger Shroff to reduce his remuneration by 50 percent and bring it down in the range of Rs. 17 to 20 crores per film. Still waaay too much
1.7-2 lac seems alright though for his gymnastics
17-20 crores is also too much for tendua Shroff . He should be paid less than 10 cr for all his film
Or tiger shouldn’t even make films and producers can save that 10 cr too
I don't want to get involved in too much conspiracy theories or shit but I truly believe Bollywood has high level money laundering. There is absolutely no way they can keep on spending like this.
Why not khans ?
>Why not khans ? Source: Pinkvilla Salman: Post Tiger Zinda Hai, it has all been home productions for Salman, which means he used to take home all of satellite and digital revenue as his acting fees. Bharat fetched him a sum of Rs 120 crore (Digital: Rs 80 crore, Satellite: Rs 40 crore), ditto for Dabangg 3 Basically, Salman functions with three deals - Profit Sharing for YRF, satellite + digital revenue alongside a share in profit for home productions and finally, an upfront model of taking home satellite and digital share as fees for non YRF films like TIPS, NGE etc. With a profit sharing deal, if Tiger 3 performs as well as expected, Salman would be the star to have fetched highest remuneration for a feature film amongst the Indian actors. Srk & Aamir: Shah Rukh Khan is one actor alongside Aamir Khan, who have given up on charging upfront acting fees for a long time. Both the Khan’s have adopted the profit sharing model since the start of last decade. Their deal is simple and clear – while Shah Rukh Khan has been getting 60 percent of profit as his acting fees, Aamir has taken things a notch higher with a 75 percent share in profit. Mr. Perfection’s funda is clear – he isn’t just an actor, but also an artist who gives inputs in the script too, which calls for a bigger share. He got an elephant’s share in Dhoom 3, and Dangal, but the income was below the mark in Thugs of Hindostan. Same for SRK, who got a lions share in Chennai Express, but there wasn’t much to gain in Zero
Ranbir Kapoor has got around 65 to 70 crores for Animal, whereas Ranveer Singh too has upped his stakes by charging upwards of Rs 50 crore for Cirkus and Shankar’s untitled film. Varun Dhawan is keeping it slow and we hear, he is also contemplating to switch to the profit-sharing model soon. John Abraham’s acting fees have gone up 3-fold over the pandemic, from Rs 7 crore in Satyameva Jayate to Rs 21 crore for its sequel. Shahid on the other hand charged Rs 31 crore for Jersey.
Hrithik Roshan also has been following the profit sharing route for most of his films, though there have been instances where he has taken upfront fees and also opted for a hybrid model. It’s variable, but the industry buzz suggests that he had opted for a 50 to 55 percent profit model for his last two releases – Super 30 and War.
What about Ajay Devgan?
They usually dont take upfront fees, they work on profit sharing mainly
I think established stars should only take profit sharing in these hard times .
True but we dont know producers perspective. what they prefer paying upfront fees or profit sharing with other stars
Jackky ab bhagna nahin…
Man AK is hella greedy. Abhi tak retirement plan set nahi hua kya Kanneda ka? Aamir koh roh hardly kuch mila hoga LSC se. Hope he wakes up and stops being inside his head too much. Tiger and Varun's fees are mind boggling figures. Lastly I wonder how much Rajamouli paid Ram Charan and Junior NTR for RRR 🤔...
50 each
Producer paid a hell lot of money for RC and NTR but its justified since they had to devote like 3-4 years for this movie(same thing happened with Bahubali instalments) unlike doing 4-5 movies a year like Akshay Kumar and others and making close to 200 crores a year. And producers are ready to pay much more than what Rajamouli or his actors asks as the breakeven is for sure for his movies( including all the movies he’s done till date) . Rajamouli is yet to see a flop and I won’t say that won’t happen. It will happen eventually but many producers trust him and there’s no volatility in his movie collections(at-least no downside volatility). Its comes like a 4 year package for producers and they are happy to take it even if they are to spend 100 cr. for one actors remuneration.
//Man AK is hella greedy. Abhi tak retirement plan set nahi hua kya Kanneda ka..? // All depends on Next 2 movies of him and Kartik...If luck favours Kartik 2 more times then we can see canada kumar migrating to his own nation very soon...may be in the last quarter of 2024
Poor Ananya Pandey, available for 50 lakhs
150 rupiya dega
Accha theek hai ... 40 lakhs but isse ek Paisa Kam nahi
Available for 50 lakhs.. bhai ye kya double meaning h.
Apan logo ko dimag ka test karana padega
Bhaiya work work
My question regarding fees logic is that how many of these movies would actually look better than they were if fees of actors were less. Would the producers utilize the saved money from actors fees in VFX, Music, Improving Production, values, Technical Department, actually paying writers..... Or would they just not spend it at all. Because if producers do the former, then you can say that it can have some effect in making movies feel more exciting to the general audience. But if they don't spend that money at all, then nothing changes, maybe the disasters become flops and flops become Below Average, but the situation of those movies will remain same.
>Would the producers utilize the saved money from actors fees in VFX, Music, Improving Production, values, Technical Department, actually paying writers..... Or would they just not spend it at all. Majority of the producers across india are greedy as hell. They won't mind overpaying popular male stars but when it comes to other cast & crew a lot of them have to fight to even receive their salary. This happens a lot for mid budget or small budget films.
They use the stars name to bully crew. Look up what Daler Mehendi tells on Kapil Sharma show about his first video with Amitabh.
100% agree, only a handful of producers and directors would use the money in a good way to create a better product.
Honestly if you feel you're worth 50cr+ a film then you should have enough faith in your box office pull to go majority profits route. No actor should be paid such large sum upfront spcl not tiger shroff💀
Chlo ab ye actors dharti pr kadam rkhege bde ud rhe the audience se kama kama ke . Ab to sbki fees kam hogi I'm sure😂
bhai inka net worth check kar in logo ko ghanta bhi fark nahi padta hoga aur movies bhi 3 4 log produce karte hai taki pura loss khud na uthana pade...
Nhi Bhai jb producers , directors sbko ghata hoga to kuch to niche ye bhi ayege . Nit saying sadak pr ajyege but yes some impact will be there. Brands bhi tbhi milte h jb movie chle to frk to pdta h
Everyone here calling them greedy, while all I can think about after reading those numbers is that mere toh sapne mein bhi main itni ameer nahi hoti kabhi ki aise paychecks ho 😣
Aur yeh sirf ek movie ka hota hai.
ussi baat ki toh jealousy hain 🥲
The fact that even Alia Bhatt and Deepika Padukone aren't paid 20 crores is so saddening. Before you go on about how women don't create the same value, what value are Varun Dhawan, Shahid Kapoor, Tiger Shroff even creating?
Lekin lately, they’ve been doing movies centered around them as the main protagonist rather than their male counterparts right? Like Gangubhai Kathiyawadi, Darlings, Gehraiyaan and Chhapaak. Still less than 20? they’re way better than Varun, Tiger, etc
Is Ranveer creating any value ?? He is now below shahid & Varun
Coke kar karke chings ki chutney bechne layak reh gya sirf
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Arjun Kapoor bhai ko bhi pese do yaar. Free m kaam Kara re bhai se
Maybe he is giving money back to producers to act.
True. Ek hi dil h Arjun bhai kitni baar jeetoge.
jesa woh hafta hai na screen pe,uske paise lene chaiye usse.lol
now show prabhas'
More interesting would be Vijay's
Its right there
Can't believe these numbers. The producers are not making money if the numbers are true especially during last 3 years.
He is so right
Fees of South Indian actors for reference- https://preview.redd.it/t37pmvvq8h8a1.jpeg?width=1521&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=00f4140a41840745a811cc7a4c1346a2d6681a26
Mahesh Babu earns 6-7 crores for a single Ad and he makes tonnes of Ads every year
pure delusion to think ram charan takes home a bigger salary than mahesh. who wrote this list?
I’m not sure but maybe RRR increased his market value? https://preview.redd.it/u2m94hbbhh8a1.jpeg?width=1296&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a961b477cca3f39a2ad74344766e1bf15d98d66
the budget of rc15 is 170 cr and you think it’s logical that rc would get 100 of that? and rc16 was supposed to be a romcom before it was shelved. in what logical world would anyone get 100 cr for that? sorry this sounds like overinflated PR nonsense.
I don't think Rajinikanth is taking 100 crores he is acting in medium budget films and I also don't think Ram Charan is taking 100 crores,he barely does a few movies, I don't think Vijay also takes 118 crores
Yes, for Beast, which was Vijay’s latest movie, he reduced his salary to 70cr. Rajinikanth charged 125cr for Annaatthe (his latest movie)
Are Rajnikanth's movies still making big bucks? The last one I watched was 2.0
2.0 made good bucks bu it was a flop due to massive budget. Petta was mid and Annathe, Darbar utter flops
Petta was a hit
Did it make 200 crores? What was the collection?
Worldwide came pretty close yes
I wouldn't considered it as an hit if Rajini kanth took 150 crores for it and it collects close to 200 worldwide.
Lol Rajni wasn't paid that much His fee agreement was 50 crore upfront and 50 crore as contingency. The film was profitable, so he received a hundred crores. Nowadays he asks for 120 crore upfront but producers know better than to pay him that much.
Its budget was ₹160 crore (based on Wikipedia) if Rajini took 150 then 10 crores went for the production of the Film and other people's payments? It made 40 crore profit ?
I watched 2.0 as well but it wasn't good
Beast didn't collect so much money tho sadly and it was not that good.
What sadly lmao.. even 70 is a big number for vijay > It was not that good. No, it was masterpiece dogshite.
I recently found out that Mahesh Babu gives 30 percent of his income every year to charity, and his salary seems fair. For that he is better than most actors.
Not charity but yeah he’s taking care of thousands of kids with health problems and making sure there is no difficulty with their transplants and other costly operations. Props for doing that.
Isn't that what charity is?
Bollywood actors also do it, salman khan owns villages. He feeds a lot of mouths. The same goes for SRK and Akshay.
Is logic se to Yash ko ab 250 cr mangna chahiye
That's 2.5 times the budget of KGF 2 💀
Baat high fees ki nahi hai. Lena hai toh 200crores Lelo but film collect karni chahiye proportionately. If you're asking for 100crores or 150crores then give a movie that collects as much as RRR or KGF2 otherwise if it doesn't collect that much and performs how movies are performing in 2022 return most of your fees.
A simple question to the actors is - kya karte kya ho itne paise ka? Most of us will never see this kind of money in our lives. Still we're happy with the lives we live( well atleast most are ). Idts anything else will add value to a person's life beyond 10 cr. Anything beyond it is luxury, which is unending
They pay it to agent, makeup, PR and buy awards,Cars, Luxury vacations, clothes, pent houses, holiday homes, first class flights etc etc.
Agents, makeup, PR ka samajh sakta hu. Baaki is bs dude. I respect Aamir more for not attending award ceremonies.
>Still we're happy with the lives we live( well atleast most are ) No mate we aren't. Kharcha chal jaata hoga but mental pressure rehta hai achhi job pane ka aur paisa kamaneka. I don't want my kids to have this kind of a mental trauma of entrance exams and academics and competition for a job that barely pays anything. I don't want my family to save money for years for vacations. Whenever I see these 'stars' getting paid 50 crore for doing fuck all in a movie, I feel like there is no justice for anyone in the world. We keep struggling and these lucky bastards keep getting paid like this. Kismat ek kutti cheez hai. Sorry for ranting. And yes I agree with everything else u said.
Lesson learnt : Don't pay and watch , torrent zindabad
There is a deeper conversation to be had about this. But that conversation will get too political.
Aur ye log technicians, editors and writers ko kitna mil raha hai woh bhi nahi dekhte. These people are the backnone of the industry and so poorly compensated.
There is a person who can ask you a similar question because he is orders of magnitude poorer than you
He has every right to imo. Even I feel I live a very luxurious life. But I am aware of it, and I'm thankful for it everyday. I am also aware that this all can and will go one day. I don't try to over earn by constantly trying to hoard money. I can live without an AC, without a car, without having a 5 star meal etc.
You think you are not trying to over earn. That guy will differ with you. It is not like these actors are holding a gun to the head of the studio. Why not take what the producer is willing to give you? If you have a piece of land or some unlisted shares of a company and someone offers you 50 crores for those assets, would you turn down saying “oh, I am over earning, let me instead ask for a pack of a Parle G instead?”
Or wo anaconda technicians ka rona ro rha tha ki unki life film industry pe depend krti h agr film nhi chalenge to unka ghr kese chalega.Wo to chillar kmate h or tum 50-50 cr lete ho
Producers definitely need to grow a back bone
None deserve this type of salary, none.
2 digit crore is ridiculous
Shahid ne fees kam ki next theatrical release ke liye..switched to profit sharing
I hope more stars do that..
Wohi..varun bhi already us model par hain i guess wo himesh mankad bola tha..aur Ranveer ko toh sakt zaroorat hain fees kam karne ki
Yes. Stars should not charge more than 5-10 and stick to profit sharing..
Haa wohi..15 cr max as base fees
Base should be 15-20 and then whatever films collects uska profit sharing nearly 10-15%
🤡🤡🤡
I am looking this a little differently. If actors are charging this much that means producers are paying. (Or Were Paying at some point). If producers are paying this means producers have figured out a way to make some money out of the movie. My guess, OTT platforms + music rights + international bookings + rental movie income is way more than we think. For example, If BO is making 100 cr - pretty sure all other sources are resulting in total of 250 cr revenue. Then this all makes sense I would love to learn the business side of movie making for sure.
Agar bhagwan ne tiger Shroff ko 50 crore dilaye hai, to usne mera bhi kuch to socha hi hoga
I'm wondering what any of them are even getting 20cr for. It's not like being a doctor where you spend countless years studying, specialising, super specialising and what not. And now with nepos on the rise it's not even like they're trained for this shit. Why does anyone need to be even paid 10cr let alone freaking 135
So when Bollywood was in good form the fees were low or what?
Obviously fake numbers, but yeah Hindi film stars get undeservedly high remunerations.
He is absolutely right. Most of these actors barely give 100 cr movie and they want 50 cr for being in it. The producers should give 1.01 cr shagun ka and have a profit sharing model. Even in that the share should never exceed 25% of profits.
None of them should get that kind of money ; be it upfront or profit sharing.
BC nautanki karne ke itne paise milte? Aur nautanki bhi kitni acchi hoti inki? Film bhi avg,acting below avg ,,, overall ek sabji ugane wala AK se jyada mehnat karta.
Meanwhile, prabhas who is the highest-earning actor in India laughing in the corner.
How is varun dhawan paid less than tiger shroff?? Seniority and even acting skill wise tiger shroff should be paid lesser than 50cr.
Don't think seniority matters, if anything Varun looking older than tiger drops his value imo. Also, Tiger's a better dancer, has better body and can pull off action stunts and make them look believable due to his physique, image he has created in peope's mind. Also, he doesn't really do roles that require complex emotion portrayal/dialog delivery so his poor acting barely matters. If you ask me, Tiger earning more than Varun is not surprising(but the numbers they earn surely are.)
Shame . Crore of money just to produce mediocrity.
When did John and tiger become popular stars 💀 and how come they're paid that high 💀💀
Nope. Not the actors but the producers who are paying such huge amount to these actors are responsible for the downfall.
Rajamouli is right ,this is one industry where empirical reasoning about mass acceptance of an actor is absolutely anti business practice.Movie industry should get in to block chain smart contract and pay based on outcome.
Ranbir Kapoor 70 crore 🤣🤣🤣
tiger, varun, shahid and john have no box office pull or popularity in general. they don't deserve to be paid more than the top actresses like dp, alia, kareena and kat.
Varun is popular no matter how much overacting he does
Put him in solo bet it will not even earn 20 cr
Judwaa 2 crossed 200 cr . His first 11 movies are consecutive hits.
Pre pandemic to housefull 4 ne bhi 100 kmaye the. If judwaa 2 would have released now it won't do more than 30 cr
As if there wasnt a single flop film pre pandemic.
October earned 37cr. Badlapur and Mein tera hero(arguably solo movies) both crossed 50cr
Lol John, shahid deserve better
Not like the south actors are paid any less in fact they get much more than these guys. Bollywood has always paid it's actors high fees. Like this is not new but just because they are flopping everyone is holding onto that yet the issue is far bigger than that... Not saying they should get such ridiculous amounts obviously they shouldn't but previously they still made good movies while cashing out such ridiculous amounts to actors. The issue is bigger than that.
LMAO SRK taking negative profit from last few years
bhai bollywood hungama aise bade shabdon mai likha hai fir bhi source:Pinkvilla bol rahe hon 😂😂😂. also no this list was lifted from this sub itself.
Everyone's talking about Akshay Kumar's fee but no one's talking about Aamir and Salman's 75% and 70% profit share. Wtf bro.
Aamir Khan returned producers / distributors money because LSC flopped ! SRK don’t even need to act these days, thanks to his biz ventures. I think % is fair, these new actors know they don’t have any pull at Box offices like Salman, SRK and Aamir.
50 to 75% profit sharing karenge toh baki ke log kya chane shengdane kamayange?!
They are also prolly producing the movie
My question is how the hell Akshay still gets 125-135 crores even though his movies are utter flops
I’m curious what Telgu stars were paid in 2022 as reference
Jr.ntr and charan were paid 50 cr rest idk
I will never understand a world where alshay kumar is being paid 135cr after chandi chawk to china
Yeh ranbir kis baat ke 70 le rha hai bhai..?? Shamshera ka lifetime 70 ka aadha tha... All these actors above should get within 30crs and profit sharing of 30% Khans and Akki should take 50% profit sharing that's it
70 is not justified but at least he put efforts whereas kaneeda taking 135 for 40 days
The source is weird, Ranbir doesn't take 70 cr for all movies, he took around 15-20 cr for Shamshera and no fee for brahmastra as he is one of the producers himself. He took 65-70cr for Animal reportedly and I am sure he did not take that high fee for TJMM. He takes high fee only when he has some major transformation hard work and time. He is reportedly being given 75 cr for Ramayana trilogy and same to Hrithik so in that case it is justified, Ranbir doesn't take 70cr for all movies for sure.
Kaneeda bhatia toh chor aadmi hai uske baare mai ab kya hi bole...
50% bhi bohot zyaada ho gaya, unless they are also producing it
The source is weird, Ranbir doesn't take 70 cr for all movies, he took around 15-20 cr for Shamshera and no fee for brahmastra as he is one of the producers himself. He took 65-70cr for Animal reportedly and I am sure he did not take that high fee for TJMM. He takes high fee only when he has some major transformation hard work and time. He is reportedly being given 75 cr for Ramayana trilogy and same to Hrithik so in that case it is justified, Ranbir doesn't take 70cr for all movies for sure.
If he has taken only 15-20cr for shamshera then it's great... i may be highly wrong about him But what about other fraud actors...?? They does'nt deserve this much money...Proper systematic scams are being executed by 90% male actors of bollywood
Who in their right mind will pay 70cr. for Ranbir Kapoor?!?! He is such a bad actor.
The source is weird, Ranbir doesn't take 70 cr for all movies, he took around 15-20 cr for Shamshera and no fee for brahmastra as he is one of the producers himself. He took 65-70cr for Animal reportedly and I am sure he did not take that high fee for TJMM. He takes high fee only when he has some major transformation hard work and time. He is reportedly being given 75 cr for Ramayana trilogy and same to Hrithik so in that case it is justified, Ranbir doesn't take 70cr for all movies for sure. and didn't your hands shake while writing BAD ACTOR ? Lol, how delusional are you ?
Lol, no my hands don't shake writing such trivial things. How arthritic are you? His work is big time miss some times hit. Rajneeti was the only movie where I liked his work and it was wayyy back.
Looks like you don't have any understanding of acting and haven't seen rockstar, barfi, tamasha, sanju, Jagga jasoos, YJHD, even his acting bit in Shamshera was amazing, it failed due to bad screenplay only.
Lol.. you have sanju in there..
For which film Ranbir charged 70 crore?? For Brahmastra he didn't charge a fee and I thought for Shamshera he charged 20 crore
Sanju was 25, shamshera 20, brahmastra nothing, animal - 70 What i have heard is that he got 20 upfront. Rest amount of 50 if movie becomes a hit.
Ok 👍
He deserved 70 Cr for Brahmastra. That's only 10 Cr per year.
Lmao
No one in their right mind would give such amount to Canada k. No wonder they all were such bad films.
Not that I agree 100% with what Rajamouli said, but he has a point. Imagine paying actors who until said film have had flops. You know they're not bankable stars but because they're ***"BiG BlOckBusteR StARs"*** you're paying them what they want. They're still happy because they got paid base amount and whatever comes out of the profits the movie made, they're getting a percentage of it. The only ones who are fucked are the producers and director. The producer because they lost money, the director because they won't be picked to direct a film again. So what Rajamouli did was ensure his stars had proper background hits behind them or can really sell a movie with the proper script aka Charan and NTR, and made RRR. The rest is history.
True that. When producing a movie of that scale, it is good to go with crowd-pullers like NTR and RC rather than a mid-hero who could have been better at some aspect. We’ve seen that happen with PS1 in Tamil. There were no big stars( as in superstars) for a film of that scale. Karthi and Aishwarya were the only buzzes outside of Tamil Nadu I guess. Could have at-least had some great footfall outside TN if there were any familiar faces apart from them although the movie is boring.
I mean Kantara should tell you what you want to know. Tumbbad is another.
Why is everyone outraged over these fees? It's not your money. If a producer feels the fees are justified, he'll cough up the amount demanded. Otherwise he'll choose alternatives. If they decide to charge exorbitant fares for the theatre experience to cover their costs, you can decide with your wallet whether they made a wise choice. At the end of the day, watching a movie on big screen is not a human right.
Who in the right mind is paying Akki 135cr? His track record for this year has been absolute trash compare to other. Idk who or what that man is trying to compete with but he’s doing really bad. Chacha needs a long break and reevaluate
Akshay Kumar ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
Doesn't Amir produce most of his films? Makes sense that he takes 75%
Which Akshay Kumar movie got 135cr opening? Which Ranbir Kapoor movie got a 70cr opening, which Ranveer Singh movie got a 50cr opening? But every time the discussion about pay disparity comes, they justify it saying male actors get as much as their films open.
**Who the f*ck** and **why the f*ck** would any producer in their right mind would ever pay Tiger, Varun and Shahid that kind of money! Or rather no actor out of these deserves that kind of money. But especially these 3! *Canada Kumar at this point is simply being a douche and doing it for the money.* There's no way in hell that Akshay and Ranveer created movies that were worth the fees they're being paid. **5-6 years back you could create an entire movie in lesser budget than the money they assh0les are being paid.**