Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut – South

Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut – South
Awarded for	Best Debut Performance by an Actor
Country	India
Presented by	Filmfare
First award	R. Madhavan, Alai Payuthey (2000)
Currently held by	Sangeeth Sobhan, Mad Shishir Baikady, Daredevil Musthafa (2023)
Most wins	Dulquer Salmaan (2)
Website	Filmfare winners

The Filmfare Best Male Debut Award is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for South Indian films. Twelve actors are awarded for Tamil films, 10 for Telugu films, three for Malayalam films, and one actor for Kannada films.

Superlatives

Dulquer Salmaan holds a record two wins

Dulquer Salmaan remains the only actor who has won Best Actor - Debut twice. He won the award for two languages, 2012 for his Malayalam debut and 2014 for his Tamil debut.

Most Wins by Language

• Tamil - 12
• Telugu - 11
• Malayalam - 3
• Kannada - 1

Recipients

Year	Image	Recipient	Film	Language(s)	Ref.
2000		R. Madhavan	Alai Payuthey	Tamil	[1]
2001	Not Awarded
2002		Nithiin	Jayam	Telugu	[1] [2]
2003		Vishnu Manchu	Vishnu	Telugu	[3] [1]
2004		Ravi Krishna	7G Rainbow Colony	Tamil	[1] [4]
2005		Arya	Arinthum Ariyamalum	Tamil	[1]
2006		Ram Pothineni	Devadasu	Telugu	[1] [5]
2007		Ram Charan	Chirutha	Telugu	[1] [6]
2008		Shanthnoo Bhagyaraj	Sakkarakatti	Tamil	[1] [7]
2009		Naga Chaitanya	Josh	Telugu	[1] [8]
2010		Rana Daggubati	Leader	Telugu	[1] [9]
2011		Aadi	Prema Kavali	Telugu	[1] [10]
2012		Dulquer Salmaan	Second Show	Malayalam	[1] [11]
		Udhayanidhi Stalin	Oru Kal Oru Kannadi	Tamil	[1] [11]
2013		Nivin Pauly	Neram	Tamil	[12]
		Gautham Karthik	Kadal	Tamil	[12]
2014		Dulquer Salmaan	Vaayai Moodi Pesavum	Tamil	[13]
		Bellamkonda Sai Srinivas	Alludu Seenu	Telugu	[13]
2015		Akhil Akkineni	Akhil	Telugu	[14]
		G. V. Prakash Kumar	Darling	Tamil	[14]
2016		Shirish	Metro	Tamil	[15]
2017		Vasanth Ravi	Taramani	Tamil	[16]
		Antony Varghese	Angamaly Diaries	Malayalam	[16]
2018	Not Awarded				[17]
2020–21		Panja Vaisshnav Tej	Uppena	Telugu
		Dev Mohan	Sufiyum Sujatayum	Malayalam	[18] [19]
2022		Pradeep Ranganathan	Love Today	Tamil	[20]
2023		Sangeeth Sobhan	Mad	Telugu	[21]
		Shishir Baikady	Daredevil Musthafa	Kannada

References

General

• Filmfare Editorial (10 July 2014). "Best Debutants down the years..." Filmfare . Retrieved 23 September 2015. We bring you a list of debutantes who won the Filmfare Award (South) over the years

Specific

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