May 4, 2010

The times of Big B are gone. The next generation of actors in bollywood have started earning more than Amitabh Bachan for a single movie. Whether or not they give continuous hits doesn't matter to them, but their salaries keep increasing year after year. The bar chart below shows the highest paid actors in India and their salaries in crores.
Akshay Kumar, Amir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, and Salman Khan are the top 5 highest paid actors in bollywood industry right now. Akshay stays at the top by taking more than 14 crores for a single Hindi movie. He is being paid more because he has given more hits recently compared to other leading stars. If its a comedy then Akshay stands out as the favourite choice of the producers. The best part about Akki is, he has not changed a lot after becoming the highest paid actor in the country. Well if this is the story of bollywood, down south Rajinikanth enjoys more than what these actors earn in bollywood. One movie in two or three years and you can't imagine the length of the queue that is outside the cinema hall waiting for a ticket to watch his movie. Click here for Kareena Kapoor's salary.
Where does your country stand in the table of literacy rate? The United Nations Development Programme has come out with a list of countries according to their literacy rates. The Holy See (Vatican City) is not included in the list by them due to some reasons but it enjoys a literacy rate of 100 percent. Leaving Vatican City aside the only other country to reach the 100 percent mark is Georgia. Cuba, Estonia, and Latvia share the second spot with a rate of 99.8%.

Barbados, Slovenia, Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine share the 5th place in the table with a literacy rate of 99.7%. Kazakhstan and Tajikistan share the next two places in the table with 99.6%. Most of the European countries including United Kingdom and United States,  and Australia share the 19th spot with a literacy rate of 99 percent. Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad, Niger and Guinea are the countries that are bottom most in the table with a literacy rate that is below 30 percent. To know more about literacy rates of other countries click here.

May 1, 2010

Ajith Kumar turns 39 years old today and he is not in TamilNadu to celebrate his birthday with his family or fans. He is racing in the Formula 2 in Europe right now and will participate in all the races that take place in Europe till September this year.
He has asked his fans not to come to Chennai all the way from their natives in Tamilnadu and instead he has asked his fans to celebrate his birthday by helping the down trodden and the needy. Right now he is Morocco racing in F2 and will be  back in October for the shooting of his 50th movie 'Kaaval'. He has completed the rounds 1 & 2 last month in 18th place in which 24 drivers had participated. The ongoing race will be over on May 2.

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