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I'm lucky to have seen the peaks of both Amitabh and SRK, and Amitabh was far bigger star than SRK, and in 80s was the lone king of Bollywood. Amitabh movies were and still are more popular than SRK, Apart from handful of SRK movies no one would remember the rest whilst majority of Amitabh movies are still.memorable like Deewar, Amar Akbar Anthony, Kabhi Kabhi, Lawarish, Suhaag, Don, Saatey pey Saata, Silsila, Naseeb, Quli etc etc.
I guess it varies from era to era. Those who born during golden age of Bollywood would say amitabh was biggest ( he was gigantic star no doubt ) but after fall of amitabh in 90s khans took over & specially srk became face of Bollywood who imo still is the biggest in terms of fan following.
In India amitabh & khans are on same level popularity wise but in overseas market amitabh's reach is not as big as srk or amir. basically Bollywood expanded to many overseas countries during 90s & srk played key role in it. recently amir had similar success in china & Turkey where one of his movie worked big time.