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Humour sells. Has always been so. And with very few takers for villainy these days, what with real life having more than enough of it, humorous movies are in great demand. This is being reflected in remunerations.

The ones who get paid the highest are not the stars with fancy titles as prefixes, but comedy actors who are paid by the day. While ‘Lovely Star’ Prem, ‘Action Star’ Murali and ‘Royal Star’ Ajai Rao command Rs 20 lakh plus per film, it is , , Komal, Sharan and other comedy actors who are really raking in the moolah. These ‘A’ list comedy actors are being paid Rs 1 lakh plus per day, and unlike the lead actors appear in dozens of films a year.

Industry insiders say that their yearly earnings could match top stars like Vishnuvardhan, Puneeth Rajkumar, Upendra and Sudeep who are content with acting in a couple of films a year. Only Shiva Rajkumar, Darshan and a few others with a continuous stream of films would beat comedians in the numbers game.

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