How do our Bollywood directors release such aesthetic movies with larger than life sets? Their budget is high and with their affording tendencies, you must be wondering how they manage? Well, these directors do manage to earn well through every film. Who are the most paid directors from the Bollywood fraternity. Let us find out.
Rohit Shetty
All his action packed movies with imported cars speak well of the director’s wealthy budget. To remake the Tamil movie Soodhu Kavvum, he was offered Rs. 25 crore just by producer Sangeeta Ahir.
Rajkumar Hirani
Rajkumar Hirani has directed some of the best movies that have graced Bollywood. His film Munnabhai M.B.B.S had a budget of Rs. 10 crores and had eventually earned Rs. 24 crores. More than Rohit Shetty, Rajkumar Hirani charges all the more as reported by a news report.
Karan Johar
Bollywood’s most loved directors has to be Karan Johar. He earned nearly Rs. 12 crores in 2019 itself, and was featured in Forbes Top 100 list of Celebrities marking his spot at #50. Additionally, his earnings as a director also come from box office collections raised by every Dharma Productions film and his talkshow Koffee with Karan.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Sanjay Leela Bhansali is known to have deducted his direction fee out of most of his movies. No matter what he does, he has created some magical films and has worked with some of the best actors in tinsel town. He is considered to be one of the highest paid actors in Bollywood having made a revenue of Rs. 184 crores once.
SS Rajamouli
SS Rajamouli had a major success rate with his movie Baahubali. It garnered a tremendous amount of Rs. 434 crores and the director himself took a good amount of Rs. 100 crores home! Talk about being successful.
Source: GQ India
