Mumbai: According to Forbes magazine, Akshay Kumar has been ranked the fourth-highest paid actor in the world. The Indian-Canadian star, who over the past year has appeared in fantasy drama Mission Mangal and Sci-Fi thriller 2.0, earned $65 million (around Rs 466 crore) between June 2018 and June 2019,made him to enter among the world’s highest paid actors.
Akshay Kumar is also the only Indian on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list for 2019. Not just films, Akshay also gets a significant chunk of his earnings from brand endorsements. Currently, he endorses more than 20 top brands across different categories.
Kumar is now one of the busiest actors in Bollywood. Two of his films already released this year -Anurag Singh’s “Kesari” and Jagan Shakti’s “Mission Mangal”, which gave an outstanding report at the box office.
His upcoming films include Farhad Samji’s Housefull 4, Raj Mehta’s Good News, Raghava Lawrence’s Laxmmi Bomb, Rohit Shetty’s Sooryavanshi and Farhad Samji’s Bachchan Pandey.