Two Khans & a Kumar!

Shah Rukh Khan is on number eight, Salman Khan on nine and Akshay Kumar on 10 in world’s highest paid actors’ list

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is ahead of Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar in Forbes magazines’ World’s Highest Paid Actors 2017 list, which is led by Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg.The response to his last few Bollywood films like Fan, Dear Zindagi, Raees and Jab

Harry Met Sejal at the box office notwithstanding, Shah Rukh still managed to rake in $38 million between June 1, 2016, and June 1, 2017 and is ranked eighth on the list, reports forbes.com. Salman, who had one hit in Sultan and then a Tubelight that had dim earnings at the box office, was listed ninth with earnings of $37 million in the past one year.

Akshay, meanwhile, rounded off the top 10 with an income of $35.5 million. The National Award winning actor is having a golden run at the box office and has achieved success with all his films released in the past one year including Housefull 3, Rustom, Jolly LLB 2, Naam Shabana and the just released Toilet: Ek Prem Katha.

Wahlberg has topped the list with earnings of $68 million thanks to Hollywood films like Transformers: The Last Knight

and the forthcoming film Daddy’s Home 2. He is followed by actors Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson ($65 million) and Vin Diesel ($54.5 million) at the second and third place. Following them are Adam Sandler ($50.5 million) at the fourth position and Jackie Chan ($49 million) rounding off the top five.Ahead of Bollywood stars at the sixth and seventh position are Hollywood stars Robert Downey Jr ($48 million) and Tom Cruise ($43 million).