TOP Three Bollywood Actresses

Top Three Actresses by Ruderesh

The Top Three Heroines of Bollywood till date are Hema, Sri and Madhuri.

Data is taken from ibosnetwork.com.
For madhuri and sridevi 25 big movies data is considered,for Hemamalini 15 movies data is considered .this is becuase the other movies data does not look complete and look like data for few centers only.
The data considered is sufficient and it will be clear later on.

1st ) Total Impact of all movies by these Heroines as per ibosnetwork.com
a) Hema Malini: Rs 19,85,84,24,795
b) Sridevi: Rs 6,71,25,212,86
c) Madhuri: Rs 6,82,51,25,502

Hema malini’s Impact is too big but she did more than double number of films compared to the other two actresses.

One problem with this impact calculation is that it adds up total earning of all their movies, even if their role in the movie is not more than 10 minutes! For example Veer Zara earnings is also added in Hema’s total impact. Sholay has an impact of 200 crore, but what % that can be given to Hema for that? In most liberal sense it should be 200/7=28 crore (six lead roles and one director).

Thus I decided to calculate impact according to the following methodology:
(I hope everyone will agree)

– The main lead gets 50%
– 2nd main lead gets 30%
– 3rd main gets 20%
– If the movie totally belongs to a single actor then 70% will be given to him/her.
– If its difficult to decide for any particular movie, then the total will be divided equally among the main leads; particularly for multi starrers.

Madhuri Impact:

Hema Malini Impact:

Sri Devi Impact:

2nd ) Total impact of considered movies as per ibosnetwork.com(Total gross in tables)

– HemaMalini: Rs 9,47,79,86,342(47% of Rs 19,85,84,24,795)
– Sridevi: Rs 5,72,45,35,516(85% of Rs 6,71,25,212,86)
– Madhuri: Rs 6,43,55,80,695(93% of Madhuri: Rs 6,82,51,25,502 )

This shows 15 movies of Hema Malini has earned 47% of all 128 movies;

while 25 movies of sridevi has earned 85% of her all movies.

Similarly 25 movies of madhuri has earned 93% of her all movies.

3rd ) Impact of movies (As calculated by me,impact column total in the tables)

– Hemamalini: Rs 2,39,57,78,029 (25 % of 2nd)
– Sridevi: Rs 2,08,01,17,567(36.3% of 2nd)
– Madhuri: Rs 2,22,12,25,658(34.5% of 2nd)

2nd calculation shows that taking data from only 15 movies is sufficient for all three actresses.

3rd calculation shows that considering % of total, Sridevi has maximum impact on box office. This is an important observation, which clearly indicate that Sridevi was much more responsible to carry those films to hit status. Even without a monster hit like HAHK, her figures are much more impressive.

Even considering Hit ratio (from ibosnetwork.com) the ratio is best for any Bollywood movie actress who has done more than 40 movies. The only other heroine who has more hits than her is Hema Malini but she did far more movies.

Also, Sridevi belonged to an era when hindi movies went through a very bad phase. Videos are poping, TV was expanding. Even during such times Sri was a sure shot success. She delivered big hits with B grade directors. Nagina was a Hit from Harmesh Malhotra; who never managed a big Hit before or even after Nagina. Mr India estabilished Boney Kapoor; who was a small producer at that time. Mr. India is still his the biggest Hit. Yash Chopra who was struggling to deliver a Hit after the failure of Silsila on 1981, came out of slum after Chandni(1988).All big movies of Yash Chopra (as Director) from Daag till Veer Zara had a Superstar actor in the lead (from Rajesh Khanna to Shahrukh Khan). Only Chandni was an exception as Yash also knew that Sri was bigger than any other actor at that time. Pankaj Prashar is still known mostly for Chaalbaaz.