Women take lead as Bollywood’s top Instagrammers

Mumbai: Bollywood’s women’s brigade, led by Priyanka Chopra Jonas, is ahead of the men as far as popularity is concerned on Instagram.

After Priyanka celebrated 40 million-plus followers of her Instagram account, IANS on Thursday took a look at some of the most popular Hindi film stars on the photo-sharing platform.

Bollywood’s ‘desi girl’ who found unprecedented popularity in Hollywood with her role in “Quantico”, uses the social media platform to keep her fans abreast of her personal and professional life, as do the others.

• Priyanka Chopra: 40.2 million followers
• Deepika Padukone: 35.1 million followers
• Alia Bhatt: 33.1 million followers
• Shraddha Kapoor: 29.7 million followers
• Jacqueline Fernandez: 28.5 million followers
• Akshay Kumar: 26.2 million followers
• Anushka Sharma: 25.1 million followers
• Ranveer Singh: 23.1 million followers
• Salman Khan: 22.3 million followers
• Katrina Kaif: 21.9 million followers
• Disha Patani: 20.9 million followers
• Varun Dhawan: 20.4 million followers
• Parineeti Chopra: 19.8 million followers
• Sonam Kapoor: 19 million followers
• Shahid Kapoor: 17.9 million followers
• Shah Rukh Khan: 17.1 million followers
• Sonakshi Sinha: 14.6 followers
• Amitabh Bachchan: 12.7 million

Hrithik Roshan, Vidya Balan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Malaika Arora, Kajol, Ajay Devgn, Aamir Khan, Sidharth Malhotra, Sara Ali Khan, Janhvi Kapoor, Ayushmann Khurrana, Vicky Kaushal, Radhika Apte and Sushant Singh Rajput also have a good number of followers.

–IANS