The Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for South Indian films.
Superlatives Dulquer Salmaan remains the only actor who has won the award twice. He won the award for two languages, 2012 for his Malayalam debut and 2014 for his Tamil debut.
Wins by Language
Tamil – 13 Telugu – 12 Malayalam – 5 Kannada – 2
Recipients
Year Actor Film Language(s) Ref. 2000 R. Madhavan Alai Payuthey Tamil 2001 Not Awarded 2002 Nithiin Jayam Telugu 2003 Vishnu Manchu Vishnu Telugu 2004 Ravi Krishna 7G Rainbow Colony Tamil 2005 Arya Arinthum Ariyamalum Tamil 2006 Ram Pothineni Devadasu Telugu 2007 Ram Charan Chirutha Telugu 2008 Shanthanu Bhagyaraj Sakkarakatti Tamil 2009 Naga Chaitanya Josh Telugu 2010 Rana Daggubati Leader Telugu 2011 Aadi Saikumar Prema Kavali Telugu 2012 Dulquer Salmaan Second Show Malayalam Udhayanidhi Stalin Oru Kal Oru Kannadi Tamil 2013 Nivin Pauly Neram Tamil Gautham Karthik KadalTamil 2014 Dulquer Salmaan Vaayai Moodi Pesavum Tamil Bellamkonda Sai Sreenivas Alludu Seenu Telugu 2015 Akhil Akkineni Akhil Telugu G. V. Prakash Kumar Darling Tamil 2016 Shirish MetroTamil 2017 Vasanth Ravi Taramani Tamil Antony Varghese Angamaly Diaries Malayalam 2018 Not Awarded2020–21Panja Vaisshnav Tej Uppena Telugu Dev Mohan Sufiyum Sujatayum Malayalam 2022 Pradeep Ranganathan Love TodayTamil2023Sangeeth SobhanMad TeluguShishir BaikadyDaredevil MusthafaKannada2024Sandeep SarojCommittee KurrolluTeluguHridhu HaroonThugsTamilAbhimanyu Shammy ThilakanMarcoMalayalamK. R. GokulAadujeevithamSamarjit LankeshGowriKannada
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