{"id":720988,"date":"2026-06-07T12:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720988\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T12:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:24:09","slug":"indias-highest-paid-actor-charges-%e2%82%b9300-crore-a-film-more-than-baahubalis-budget-its-not-shah-rukh-prabhas-vijay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720988\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s highest-paid actor charges \u20b9300 crore a film, more than Baahubali&#8217;s budget; it&#8217;s not Shah Rukh, Prabhas, Vijay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How Allu Arjun beat the Khans and Rajinikanth<\/p>\n<p>For years, one of the three Khans was the highest-paid actor in Indian cinema. Ever since <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/shah-rukh-khan\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Shah Rukh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shah Rukh<\/a>, Aamir, and Salman took over from Amitabh Bachchan and Sanjay Dutt in the mid-90s, the three Khans have raised their remuneration with back-to-back successes. Shah Rukh became the first to get profit share, and Aamir broke the  \u20b9100-crore barrier. By the late 2010s, all three Khans were taking home more than  \u20b9100 crore per film. Shah Rukh increased this to over  \u20b9200 crore with Pathaan and Jawan in 2023. These stars were upstaged by Tamil superstar Rajinikanth in 2024. In his 70s, Rajinkanth earned over  \u20b9250 crore for Jailer, one of the highest-grossing Tamil films of all time. But within months, he lost the crown to Arjun.<\/p>\n<p>Allu Arjun\u2019s upcoming film<\/p>\n<p>Allu Arjun has only appeared in the two Pushpa films in the last five years. His first film after the blockbuster duology will be Atlee\u2019s Raaka. The action-adventure also stars Deepika Padukone in the lead role. The film is scheduled for release in December 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How Allu Arjun beat the Khans and Rajinikanth For years, one of the three Khans was the highest-paid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6122,64,63,447,134,163910,349471,4149,7146],"class_list":["post-720988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-allu-arjun","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-highest-paid-actor","tag-indias-highest-paid-actor","tag-salman-khan","tag-shah-rukh-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}