Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone Way Ahead of Shah Rukh, Salman on Instagram

Bollywood's women's brigade, led by Priyanka Chopra Jonas, is ahead of the men as far as popularity is concerned on Instagram.

After Priyanka celebrated 40 million-plus followers of her Instagram account, IANS on Thursday took a look at some of the most popular Hindi film stars on the photo-sharing platform.

Bollywood's 'desi girl' who found unprecedented popularity in Hollywood with her role in Quantico, uses the social media platform to keep her fans abreast of her personal and professional life, as do the others.

Priyanka Chopra: 40.2 million followers

Deepika Padukone: 35.1 million followers

Alia Bhatt: 33.1 million followers

Shraddha Kapoor: 29.7 million followers

Jacqueline Fernandez: 28.5 million followers

Akshay Kumar: 26.2 million followers

Anushka Sharma: 25.1 million followers

Ranveer Singh: 23.1 million followers

Salman Khan: 22.3 million followers

Katrina Kaif: 21.9 million followers

Disha Patani: 20.9 million followers

Varun Dhawan: 20.4 million followers

Parineeti Chopra: 19.8 million followers

Sonam Kapoor: 19 million followers

Shahid Kapoor: 17.9 million followers

Shah Rukh Khan: 17.1 million followers

Sonakshi Sinha: 14.6 followers

Amitabh Bachchan: 12.7 million

Hrithik Roshan, Vidya Balan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Malaika Arora, Kajol, Ajay Devgn, Aamir Khan, Sidharth Malhotra, Sara Ali Khan, Janhvi Kapoor, Ayushmann Khurrana, Vicky Kaushal, Radhika Apte and Sushant Singh Rajput also have a good number of followers.