MUMBAI: eBay India has announced a unique eBay Bollywood Barometer, which gauges Bollywood star popularity based on the number of products up for sale on eBay India website. The range of products varies from movie memorabilia like film magazine covers, posters, movies and books.
Amongst the female actors, Rani Mukherjee tops the list of the barometer followed by Aishwarya Rai and Preity Zinta at the second and third place repsectively. The timing for Madhuri Dixit’s comeback seems to be right on target as she is number four on the barometer. Rekha actually ties with Priyanka Chopra at 36 listings each.
The Bollywood male brigade is topped by John Abraham, who leaves behind Shah Rukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan at the second and third position respectively. Abhishek Bachchan’s popularity though is assumed to be high; the same has not been seen on eBay because his ranking is at number eight. On the other hand, Amitabh Bachchan is ranked number four.
eBay Bollywood Barometer: Actors
Ranking Actors No. of Live Listings
1 John Abraham 497
2 Shahrukh Khan 266
3 Hrithik Roshan 164
4 Amitabh Bachchan 142
5 Akshay Kumar 100
6 Salman Khan 91
7 Sanjay Dutt 62
8 Abhishek Bachchan 58
9 Saif Ali Khan 57
10 Aamir Khan 31
eBay Bollywood Barometer: Actresses
Ranking Actors No. of Live Listings
1 Rani Mukherjee 134
2 Aishwarya Rai 122
3 Preity Zinta 93
4 Madhuri Dixit 66
5 Kareena Kapoor 61
6 Bipasha Basu 41
7 Priyanka Chopra 36
7 Rekha 36
9 Sushmita Sen 34
10 Vidya Balan 16
