AJITH AND VIJAY LEFT OUT FROM THE TOP 100 ..

Forbes India has released the top 100 Indian celebrities for this year and the list has more of Bollywood personalities as usual. The list is based on the annual earnings of the celebrities and their popularity quotient.

Shah Rukh Khan tops the list with 257.5 crores as earnings in 2015 followed by Salman Khan, Amitabh Bachchan and MS Dhoni in 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th places respectively.

As regards our Kollywood celebrities who have managed to enter this list, there is a major surprise element here. We don’t see Ajith or Vijay in the Top 100 list but we have AR Rahman (14), Dhanush (37), Kamal Haasan (46), Santhanam (52),  Rajinikanth (69), Suriya (71) and Arya (80).

The other South celebrities who have managed to enter the list are Mahesh Babu (36), Allu Arjun (42), Kajal Aggarwal (58), Shruti Haasan (61), S S Rajamouli (72), Ravi Teja (74), Prabhas (77), Prabhu Deva (88) and Puri Jagannadh (89).

The numbers in the bracket indicate the celebrity's place in the Top 100