Google releases Indian Cinema’s most searched for stars over the last 10 years

by Shrutee K/DNS

Mumbai:  Google announced the most searched for Indian Cinema stars over the last 10 years. These stars are the actors, actresses, directors, musicians and movies that have inspired the most digital curiosity in India between 2006-2016. Salman Khan and Sunny Leone took out the top spots for the most searched-for Bollywood actor and actress in the last 10 years, Honey Singh and Prabhu Deva were the top singer and Director, while Amitabh Bachchan and  Rekha were the most searched for classic actor and actress.

Indian Cinema’s Search Stars 2006 - 2016

Actors	Actresses	Directors	Movies
Salman Khan Shahrukh Khan Akshay Kumar Amitabh Bachchan Rajinikanth Hrithik Roshan Shahid Kapoor Ranbir Kapoor Aamir Khan Emraan Hashmi	Sunny Leone Katrina Kaif Kareena Kapoor Kajal Agarwal Deepika Padukone Aishwarya Rai Priyanka Chopra Tamanna Bhatia Alia Bhatt Sonakshi Sinha	Prabhu Deva Karan Johar Farhan Akhtar Raj Kapoor Ram Gopal Varma Farah Khan Anurag Kashyap Yash Chopra Rohit Shetty Rajkumar Hirani	PK Kahaani Bahubali Aashiqui 2 Dhoom 3 Kick Bajrangi Bhaijaan Happy New Year Hero Ek Villian

Singers	Classic Actors	Classic Actresses
Honey Singh Atif Aslam Arijit Singh Lata Mangeshkar Sonu Nigam Kishore Kumar Shreya Ghoshal Kumar Sanu Himesh Reshammiya Sunidhi Chauhan	Amitabh Bachchan Kamal Hassan Rajesh Khanna Mithun Chakraborty Rajkumar Dharmendra Dilip Kumar Dev Anand Raj Kapoor Rishi Kapoor	Rekha Sridevi Madhubala Hema Malini Zeenat Aman Dimple Kapadia Mumtaz Meena Kumari Parveen Babi Saira Banu

“Indians have been turning to the web to find out more about their favorite stars for over a decade now and we’ve been evolving Google Search to give them richer, better answers” explained Google India’s Marketing Head, Sapna Chadha. “With around 1 in 10 mobile searches in India related to Indian cinema, we recently launched a range of immersive Search experiences that give film lovers an easy way to discover and explore everything they want to know about their favorite movies, stars, music, dialogues actors and more”

Now when you ask Google questions about films, actors, song lyrics, film trivia, trailers, screening times and more, you’ll get rich, contextual answers.  For example try asking Google “What films has Prabhu Deva directed?” or “Who starred in the film Hero” and Google Search now shows rich, contextual answers. These Search experiences were highlighted at an event in Mumbai featuring Director Karan Johar — the second most searched for director in the last 10 years — where Google launched a  video tribute to Indian cinema.