Bollywood superstars Salman Khan and Priyanka Chopra are among the Top 500 most influential entertainment celebrities in the world. They have made it to Variety's list of 500 'influential business leaders shaping the global $2 trillion entertainment industry.'
Apart from them, 10 other Indians also feature in the list. The names include Karan Johar, Aditya Chopra, Ekta Kapoor, and the Ambani brothers, Sidharth Roy Kapur, Punit Goenka, Kishore Lulla, Uday Shankar and Subhash Chandra.
A tweet from the official Twitter handle of Variety read, "Salman Khan is one of the unrelated Khan triumvirate comprising Aamir and Shah Rukh that has been ruling the Bollywood box office for decades." Americans lead the field with 362 names followed by the British (28), Chinese (20), French (16) and German (15) with India placed sixth.
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