Mirzapur Movie Pay: Pankaj Tripathi Leads Ali Fazal By Crores
Reports put Pankaj Tripathi at the top of the Mirzapur: The Movie salary chart, with Ali Fazal and Divyenndu Sharma trailing by a wide margin. The numbers are unconfirmed, but they show where the big-screen bet is being placed.
Filmibeat reported on September 1, 2026, that Pankaj Tripathi is the highest-paid actor in Mirzapur: The Movie, with a reported fee of about Rs 15 crore. Ali Fazal, returning as Guddu Pandit, is reported at Rs 4 crore, while Divyenndu Sharma’s return as Munna Tripathi is put at Rs 3 crore. The film is set for cinemas on September 4, and that is why these numbers matter: Mirzapur is no longer only a streaming habit watched from the sofa. It is asking people to buy a ticket, sit in the dark, and see whether its old faces can fill a much bigger room.
Pankaj Tripathi Tops The Reported Pay List
According to Filmibeat, Pankaj Tripathi is said to have charged around Rs 15 crore for Mirzapur: The Movie. Times Now and Free Press Journal also reported the same figure, crediting Filmii Talks for the salary claims.
There is no mystery about why his number sits at the top, if the reports are right. Tripathi’s Kaleen Bhaiya is the kind of character who can make a room quieter by entering it. The actor does not have to shout for power to arrive. He can let it rest on his face, in a pause, in that grave little softness that makes the threat worse.
A fee like Rs 15 crore is not only a reward for a past performance. It is a wager on memory. The producers are betting that when viewers think of Mirzapur, one of the first faces they see is Tripathi’s. That is useful in a theatrical release, where recognition has to work fast. A poster has a second or two to do its business.
The caution is important. Filmibeat noted that the reported fees have not been confirmed by the actors or the film’s team. So the honest sentence is this: as reported, Tripathi is the highest-paid actor in the film. The public record here does not make it official.
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Ali Fazal And Divyenndu Sharma Follow At Rs 4 Crore And Rs 3 Crore
Ali Fazal’s reported fee is Rs 4 crore for returning as Guddu Pandit, according to Filmibeat, Times Now, and Free Press Journal. Divyenndu Sharma is reported at Rs 3 crore for coming back as Munna Tripathi.
Those numbers are smaller than Tripathi’s, but they are not small numbers. They also tell us something about the shape of the film’s appeal. Guddu and Munna carry heat of a different kind. Guddu is wounded force. Munna is reckless appetite. Each actor has to bring back a man viewers already know without making him feel like a museum piece.
