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Shah Rukh Khan is second wealthiest in list of Hollywood and Bollywood stars
NEW DELHI: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has edged past Hollywood bigwigs like Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp to be listed second in the top 10 wealthiest celebrity list.
According to Wealth-X’s Hollywood and Bollywood Rich List released on 21 May, the 48-year-old actor is estimated to have a fortune of over $600 million.
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld tops the list with a fortune of $820 million. Cruise is third, with a fortune of $480 million, while Tyler Perry and Depp are fourth and fifth respectively with an estimated wealth of $450 million each.
With over 50 Hindi films in his 20-year career, Khan co-owns the Indian Premier League cricket team Kolkata Knight Riders, and has his own production company, Red Chilies Entertainment.
Married to Indian film producer Gauri Chibber, Khan’s vast fortune includes homes in Mumbai, Delhi, Dubai and London. Much of Khan’s wealth comes from highly lucrative endorsement deals with companies such as Nokia, Pepsi and TAG Heuer, the Guardian reported. His savvy marketing skills lead Forbes Middle East to recently place him number one in their annual ranking of the world’s top Indian leaders.
Several Academy Award winners are featured on the list, including three-time Oscar winner Jack Nicholson, who has a net worth of $400 million, putting the 77-year-old actor in seventh spot, while Tom Hanks is in eighth place with a personal fortune of $390 million. Clint Eastwood, who at 84 is the oldest actor in the list, has an estimated personal fortune of $370 million, making him the nineth wealthiest. Bill Cosby shares the eighth spot with Hanks with $380 million, while Adam Sandler is on the tenth spot, with $340 million.
Wealth-X is world’s leading ultra-high net worth intelligence and prospecting firm with the largest collection of curated research on ultra- high net worth individuals. The research was done by using a proprietary valuation model to assess all asset holdings including privately and publicly held businesses and investible assets to develop the net worth valuation.
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Remembering Gyan Sahay, the lens behind film, television and advertising
From a puppet rabbit selling poppadums to Hindi cinema, he framed it all.
MUMBAI: There are careers, and then there are canvases. Gyan Sahay, the veteran cinematographer, director, and producer who passed away on 10 March 2026 in Mumbai, had one of the latter. Over several decades in the Indian film and television industry, he turned lenses, lights, and the occasional puppet rabbit into something approaching art.
A graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune, Sahay built his reputation as a director of photography across a career that stretched from the early 1970s all the way to the digital age. He was the kind of craftsman who understood that a well-composed shot is not merely a technical achievement but a quiet act of storytelling.
For most Indians of a certain age, however, Sahay will forever be the man behind the rabbit. His direction of the iconic long-running television commercial for Lijjat Papad, featuring its now-legendary puppet bunny, gave the country one of its most cheerfully persistent advertising images. It was the sort of work that sneaks into the national subconscious and takes up permanent residence.
His big-screen credits as cinematographer include Anokhi Pehchan (1972), Pagli (1974), Pas de Deux (1981), and Hum Farishte Nahin (1988). In 1999, he stepped behind a different kind of camera altogether, making his directorial debut with Sar Ankhon Par, a drama that featured Vikas Bhalla and Shruti Ulfat, with a cameo by Shah Rukh Khan for good measure.
On television, Sahay was particularly prized for his command of multi-camera production setups, a skill that made him a go-to technician for large-scale shows and reality programmes. In an industry that has never been especially patient with complexity, he was the calm hand on the rig.
In later life, Sahay turned teacher. He participated regularly in masterclasses and Digi-Talks, often hosted by organisations such as Bharatiya Chitra Sadhna, sharing hard-won wisdom on cinematography, the comedy of timing in a shot, and the sweeping changes brought by the shift from celluloid to digital. He was also said to have been involved in a project concerning a biographical film on Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy.
Tributes from the film industry poured in following the news of his passing, with colleagues remembering him as a senior cameraman who served as a rare bridge between two entirely different eras of Indian cinema. That is, perhaps, the finest thing one can say of any craftsman: he kept up, and he brought others along with him.
