Top 10 Highest Grossing Shah Rukh Khan Movies
Shah Rukh Khan, also known as the “King of Bollywood,” is an Indian actor, producer, and television personality who has been entertaining audiences for over three decades. He is considered one of the most successful actors in the Indian film industry and has starred in many blockbuster movies.
He began his acting career by playing a soldier in the Doordarshan series Fauji (1988), a role that garnered him recognition and led to starring roles in more television shows. He soon started receiving film offers and had his first release with the romantic drama Deewana (1992), in which he played a supporting part.
Khan played in more than 95 plus movies as a lead and cameo role. In 1995, Khan starred opposite Kajol in Aditya Chopra’s romance Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, which became the longest-running Indian film of all time. He continued to establish a reputation in romantic roles by playing opposite Madhuri Dixit in Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), and Kajol in the Karan Johar-directed Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham… (2001). On 25 January 2023, Pathaan was released and the film made it the fourth-highest-grossing Hindi film, the seventh-highest-grossing Indian film, and the highest-grossing of Khan’s career as well as the first movie that grossed ₹1,000 crores. Here is a list of the top highest-grossing Shahrukh Khan films (Shah Rukh Khan Box Office Collection):
List of Highest-Grossing Shah Rukh Khan Movies:
- Release date: 25 January 2023
- Budget: ₹225 crore (US$28 million)
- Worldwide Collection: ₹1,050.30 crore (US$130 million)
- Domestic Collection: ₹654.28 crore (US$82 million)
- Overseas Collection: ₹396.02 crore (US$50 million)
The fourth installment in the YRF Spy Universe, it was co-written and directed by Siddharth Anand and produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan in the title role, alongside Deepika Padukone and John Abraham, and Dimple Kapadia and Ashutosh Rana in supporting roles.
The story follows Pathaan, an exiled RAW agent, who works with ISI agent Rubina Mohsin to take down Jim, a former RAW agent, who plans to attack India with a deadly lab-generated virus.
- Release date: 7 September 2023
- Budget: ₹300 crore
- Worldwide Collection: ₹773.62 crore (US$97 million)
- Domestic Collection: ₹527.06 crore (US$66 million)
- Overseas Collection: ₹246.56 crore (US$31 million)
Action thriller film co-written and directed by Atlee in his Hindi film debut. It is produced by Gauri Khan and Gaurav Verma under Red Chillies Entertainment.
The film stars Shah Rukh Khan in a dual role as father and son who team up to rectify corruption in society. Nayanthara, Deepika Padukone, Vijay Sethupathi, Priyamani and Sanya Malhotra appear in supporting roles.
- Release date: 21 December 2023
- Budget: ₹120 crore
- Worldwide Collection: ₹470.6 crore
A comedy-drama film based on the illegal immigration technique called “donkey flight”, the film is co-written, co-produced, edited, and directed by Rajkumar Hirani, under Rajkumar Hirani Films, along with Jio Studios and Red Chillies Entertainment. It stars Shah Rukh Khan, Taapsee Pannu, Vicky Kaushal and Boman Irani.
Four friends from a sleepy little village in Punjab share a common dream: to go to England. Their problem is that they have neither the visa nor the ticket. A soldier alights from a train one day, and their lives change. He gives them a soldier`s promise: He will take them to the land of their dreams. What follows is a hilarious and heartwarming tale of a perilous journey through the desert and the sea, but most crucially through the hinterlands of their mind.
A journey that tests and defines them: their courage, their smarts, and the strain of their conflicting ideologies. Dunki is a saga of friendships, borders, nostalgia for home and love that towers above it all.
- Release date: 9 August 2013
- Budget: ₹70 crores
- Worldwide Collection: ₹423 crores
Directed by Rohit Shetty and stars Deepika Padukone and Shah Rukh Khan with Nikitin Dheer, Sathyaraj, Kamini Kaushal, and Lekh Tandon in supporting roles.
The film revolves around Rahul Mithaiwala, a rich man who accidentally boards the eponymous train and journeys from Mumbai to Rameswaram with the daughter of an influential don.
- Release date: 24 October 2014
- Budget: ₹150 crore
- Worldwide Collection: ₹394 crore
Farah Khan helmed an action comedy film featuring an ensemble cast of Deepika Padukone, Shah Rukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani, Vivaan Shah, and Jackie Shroff. The film marked the third collaboration of the lead actor, producer and director; they previously worked on Main Hoon Na (2004) and Om Shanti Om (2007), the latter of which also featured Padukone as the female lead.
It follows a bunch of losers who transform themselves into a team that wins over the hearts of the people in the city and across the world, all as part of their quest to pull off the biggest diamond heist ever seen.
- Release date: December 18, 2015
- Budget: ₹75 crores
- Worldwide Collection: ₹376.85 crore
Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon starrer rom-com action film directed by Rohit Shetty, who co-produced the film with Gauri Khan under Red Chillies Entertainment and Rohit Shetty Entertainments.
The film also stars Pankaj Tripathi, Mukesh Tiwari, Varun Sharma, Boman Irani, Vinod Khanna, Kabir Bedi and Johnny Lever. The film marks the final appearance of Vinod Khanna, before his death on 27 April 2017.
- Release date: 25 January 2017
- Budget: ₹127 crore
- Worldwide Collection: ₹304 crore
Directed by Rahul Dholakia and produced by Red Chillies Entertainment and Excel Entertainment. It stars Shah Rukh Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Mahira Khan.
] Raees is said to be based on the criminal Abdul Latif’s life, however, the filmmakers have denied this claim.
- Release date: 12 February 2010
- Budget: ₹50 crores
- Worldwide Collection: ₹223 crores
Karan Johar directed and co-written by Shibani Bathija and Niranjan Iyengar, is a social drama drama film featuring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol in lead roles.
The film narrates a fictional story where Rizwan Khan (Khan), an autistic Muslim, sets out on a journey across the United States to meet the President after Mandira Rathod Khan (Kajol), his Hindu wife, suffers from Islamophobic discrimination after the September 11 attacks.
- Release date: 23 December 2011
- Budget: ₹76 crore
- Worldwide Collection: ₹203 crore
Action thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Farhan Akhtar. It is the second installment in the Don reboot series. Jointly produced by Excel Entertainment and Red Chillies Entertainment
It stars Shah Rukh Khan as the titular anti-hero, with Priyanka Chopra, Boman Irani, Lara Dutta, Om Puri, Nawwab Shah, Ally Khan, Sahil Shroff and Kunal Kapoor playing supporting roles. A sequel to Don (2006), the film’s story takes place 5 years after the previous film when Don (Khan), a powerful international drug lord, plans to take over the European drug cartel. Meanwhile, Roma (Chopra) has joined Interpol to hunt him down.
- Release date: 13 November 2012
- Budget: ₹50 crore
- Worldwide Collection: ₹235 crore
Directed by Yash Chopra and written and produced by his son Aditya Chopra under their banner Yash Raj Films. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma. Becoming Chopra’s fourth film to feature Khan in the lead role, Jab Tak Hai Jaan marked the second collaboration between Khan and Sharma as they previously featured in Yash Raj Films’ Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008), which was the latter’s debut whereas this film was the first between Khan and Kaif.
The story revolves around Samar Anand (Khan) a bomb disposal expert whose diary falls into the hands of an intern Akira Rai (Sharma); the diary recounts his time as a struggling immigrant in London, and later details his whirlwind romance with Meera Thapar (Kaif).
- Release date: 26 October 2011
- Budget: ₹100–150 crore
- Worldwide Collection: ₹207 crore
Superhero film directed by Anubhav Sinha and produced by Gauri Khan under Red Chillies Entertainment. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan in a dual role and Arjun Rampal as the titular antagonist, with Kareena Kapoor, Armaan Verma, Shahana Goswami, Tom Wu, Dalip Tahil and Satish Shah in supporting roles.
In the film, Ra. One, a video game antagonist, escapes from the virtual world and arrives in the real world to hunt down Lucifer, the ID of Ra. One’s creator Shekhar Subramaniam’s son Prateek, as he had defeated Ra. One in a game. Shekhar gets killed by Ra. One, but Prateek resurrects G. One, the video game protagonist and Shekhar’s lookalike, to defeat Ra. One and protect him and his family.