BARD OF BOLLYWOOD

SHAH RUKH KHAN 52 Actor

Because whether it is signing a deal with Netflix for producing the series Bard of Blood, being an ambassador for Dubai tourism or making a splash in Davos where he collected the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award for “leadership in championing children’s and women’s rights in India”, he continues to make headlines

Because losing box office sheen hasn’t dented his financial power. With Rs 170.5 crore earnings in 2017, he was the second highest earning actor, behind only Salman Khan. Shah Rukh is also the eighth highest-paid actor in the world

Because his 13-year-old company, Red Chillies VFX, is one of the leading providers of special effects in India. After creating a young SRK lookalike in Fan, the company will now make the actor shrink in height in Aanand L. Rai’s Zero which releases in December

BEST BUDDY Karan Johar. The actor and filmmaker go back a long way, to the days of shooting Dilwale Dulhania Le Jaayenge (1994). Johar has also expressed a desire to launch Khan’s eldest son Aryan in Bollywood