Indian Cinema has completed 100 years and there have been thousands who have served the industries with their hardwork and skills. A few have been extremely influential bringing the name of Indian cinema to the international front.
This is a list of 20 actors listed by NDTV commemorating the best names in the industry who have taken the movies to the globlal status that it enjoys now. Tollywood actors like Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao and Chiranjeevi too. Rajinikanth as expected is in the top five along with Amitabh Bachchan and the leader of the list is Dilip Kumar followed by Amitabh Bachchan.

Here is the total list:

1. Dilip Kumar
2. Rajesh Khanna
3. Amitabh Bachchan
4. Rajinikanth
5. Pran Sikand
6. NT Rama Rao
7. Uttam Kumar
8. MG Rama Chandran
9. Mohanlal
10. Naseeruddin Shah
11. Raj Kapoor
12. Kamal Hassan
13. Balraj Sahni
14. Utpal Dutt
15. Chiranjeevi
16. Raj Kumar
17. Sivaji Ganeshan
18. Mammootty
19. Shah Rukh Khan
20. Amir Khan

(AW- Anil)