The irrepressible TV impresario and prolific filmmaker Karan Johar tops the ‘Score Trend India’ list for Most Popular Filmmaker of mid 2019. While South heavyweight S. Shankar is second followed by Farhan Akhtar and Rohit Shetty. These statistics are collected and authenticated by US-based media-tech start-up Score Trends India.
Karan began an amazing year as producer with films like Simmba, Kesari, Kalank and Student of The Year 2. His talk show Koffee with Karan Season 6 was the most popular English chat show on Indian television. As per Score Trends India statistics, Karan acquired 100 points for top visibility in the categories of Viral News, Newsprint and Digital (social media and websites). Veteran S. Shankar, one of most acclaimed filmmakers of the South, ranked second with 89.15 points for his blockbuster sci-fi 2.0 starring Rajnikanth and Akshay Kumar. Surprisingly, filmmaker-turned-actor Farhan Akhtar is in third position with 31.18 points acquired following news of his dating model Shibani Dandekar. Professionally Farhan also had a sleeper hit in Gully Boy and was in the news for his web series Made in Heaven.
Filmmaker and popular TV host Rohit Shetty ranked fourth with 30.24 points after the blockbuster success of Simmba while his show Khatron Ke Khiladi garnered the highest TRPs in the reality show category and added to his points. Rohit is also presently in the news because of his cop drama Sooryavanshi staring Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif. Anurag Kashap, for making the popular web series Scared Games for Netflix and producing the controversial Hrithik Roshan film Super 30, is in the fifth position. He ranks high socially because Kashap is often seen in brawls on Twitter. His latest release Game Over was also widely discussed on viral and digital news platforms.
Ashwani Kaul, co-founder of Score Trends India, said, “We collect data from over 600 news sources across 14 languages in India to analyse the media. These include Facebook, Twitter, print publications, viral news on social media, broadcast and digital platforms. Various sophisticated algorithms then help us to process this massive amount of data and arrive at the scores and rankings of celebrities.”
(Source: Peeping Moon)
