Meet Bollywood’s richest billionaires who once sold toothbrushes instead of Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, who is…
Forbes Billionaire List 2025 mentions the world’s $3028 billionaires, 205 of whom are from India and few even have the entertainment industry. The person in question is a producer who started making toothbrushes but is now richer than all Bollywood blacks.
Meet Bollywood’s richest billionaires who once sold toothbrushes instead of Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, who is…
Bollywood Badshah Shah Rukh Khan, Bhaijan Salman Khan, not even Big B Amitabh Bachchan is the only billionaire and richest person in Bollywood, but is indeed a filmmaker. Forbes Billionaire List 2025 mentions the world’s $3028 billionaires, 205 of whom are from India and few even have the entertainment industry. The person in question is a producer who started making toothbrushes but is now richer than all Bollywood blacks.
The richest man in Bollywood is not sweating
The Forbes billionaire list mentions only one person in the Bollywood film industry, with a fortune of over a billion dollars. He is the renowned Indian filmmaker, entrepreneur and philanthropist Ronnie Screwvala. The media giant has more than $1.5 billion (Rs 128,158,513,500). Basically, he is the richest man in the Hindi film industry. For reference, Shah Rukh Khan has $770 million (Rs 65,892,225,000), Salman Khan has $390 million (Rs 33,292,275,000), while Amir Khan has $220 million (Rs 18,796,950,000). Their total net worth is US$1.38 billion (118,265,103,000).
Who is Ronnie Screwvala?
Born in Mumbai in 1956, Scersvala began his entrepreneurial journey in the late 1970s by making toothbrushes. In the early 1980s, when color TV was offered through the Asian Games, Screcvala took advantage of the cable boom by pioneering the concept of Indian cities. This paved the way for him to enter the entertainment department. In 1990, he founded UTV, which later became a UTV movie. Over the next two decades, the production company has been in iconic films such as Swades, Rang de Basanti, Khosla Ka Ghosla, Jodhaa Akbar, Fashion, Delhi Belly and Barfim as well as TV shows, as well as Shanti, Hip Hip Hurray, Shaka Laka Laka Boom Boom, Khichdi and Sharmarati.
But he sold his first production company to Disney in a multi-billion dollar deal, and opened the RSVP movie five years later. This new banner is also in Uri, Sam Bahadur, Kedarnath, The Sky and more. For decades, he has become one of the sharks with Shark Tank India.
How did Ronnie Screwvala become so rich?
But even the wealthiest people in Bollwyood, the film industry isn’t the only source of funding for the well-known 68-year-old producer. He has been an investor in many startups including Upgrad, Unilazer and Usports. Since all of these companies have succeeded in their field, his tremendous success is attributed to their growth.
