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Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has emerged arsenic India's astir prolific star, featuring successful 20 retired of 130 astir fashionable Indian movies, said a caller study by IMDb.
The report, titled 25 Years of Indian Cinema (2000-2025), was released connected Tuesday by IMDb, the planetary movie database with implicit 250 cardinal monthly users.
It is based connected the apical 5 astir fashionable Indian movies released each twelvemonth betwixt January 2000 and August 2025, collectively accounting for much than 9.1 cardinal idiosyncratic ratings worldwide.
According to the study, Shah Rukh dominated the aboriginal 2000s, starring successful 8 of the 25 astir fashionable films released betwixt 2000 and 2004.
He besides headlined the apical movie for 5 consecutive years during this period.
His enduring stardom has ensured that adjacent successful years without a release, helium remained a changeless beingness connected IMDb’s Popular Indian Celebrities list, featuring successful the apical 10 each week of 2024.
Shah Rukh said it is encouraging for him to spot the interaction his films person had connected people.
"It’s pleasantly astonishing and encouraging to spot the interaction films that I person been a portion of person made. The extremity has ever been to entertain radical and triumph implicit their emotion done storytelling. It’s ever been my content that the powerfulness of cinema lies successful the information that it tin transcend boundaries of connection and culture," helium said successful a statement.
"To spot that my films person entertained radical not conscionable successful India but elsewhere, is precise fulfilling. I americium thankful that my travel implicit these 25 years has been highlighted successful the IMDb report…. can’t assistance but say, ‘picture abhi baaki hai," the 59-year-old histrion said.
The study besides highlighted the shifting scenery of Indian stardom.
While the archetypal 5 years of the millennium saw 13 antheral leads predominate the 25 astir fashionable films, the past 5 years person featured 23 antithetic antheral stars, with lone Prabhas, Allu Arjun, Suriya, and Vijay appearing much than once.
“Stars were erstwhile engines of success, but contiguous they are a constituent of a larger machinery,” IMDb said.
“They relation little arsenic guarantors of occurrence and much arsenic multipliers of a movie’s intrinsic strengths. The fans of contiguous whitethorn enactment up for a selfie, but they whitethorn not amusement up for the movie," it added.
