tollywood top heroes remuneration

Tollywood Top Heroes & Directors Remuneration

A leading news channel has recently reported that Top Heroes and Directors have been charging a bomb for signing a film. The media house went ahead and released the remunerations chart of most happening heroes and directors in Tollywood.

According to those figures, Pawan Kalyan charged Rs 11 crore for Cameraman Gangatho Rambabu and he is going to get paid anywhere between Rs 12-15 crore for his future projects. Mahesh Babu too is charging similar pay package. Next on the list is NTR with Rs 10 crore, Charan with Rs 7 crore (Producer's actor), Prabhas with Rs 7 crore, Allu Arjun with Rs 6 crore (Producer's actor), Ravteja with Rs 6 crore, Ram with Rs 4 crore, Siddharth with Rs 3 crore, Nani with Rs 3 crore and Allari Naresh with Rs 2.5 crore. While big heroes Balayya and Nag were pocketing Rs 6 crore each, another hero in the same league Venky is getting Rs 5 crore per film.

Coming to directors, Rajamouli takes whopping Rs 3 crore initially and 33% share in the film later. While Puri Jagannath is charging Rs 11 crore per film, Srinu Vytla and VV Vinayak are pocketing Rs 9 crore and Rs 7 crore respectively.

Looking at these numbers, it's no surprise that at least 40% production cost of a big budgeted film goes to the remunerations of cast and crew. Though these figures will never be confirmed or denied officially by any of our stars and their directors, they create some serious buzz for sure

October 28th, 2012, 05:00 AM IST

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