Salman Khan has beaten his contemporaries, including Akshay Kumar and Hrithik Roshan, to become the highest advance taxpayer for the financial year 2016-17
"Box office collections in India that are estimated at over Rs 11,500 crores are likely to cross Rs 14,200 crores mark by 2017 and will account for about 74 per cent of the majority of Bollywood revenues," said the joint study conducted by Assocham and Deloitte
Last year, the movie extravaganza was going through a financial crunch before it was resurrected through crowd-sourcing and social media campaigns