Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut

The Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut (previously known as Filmfare Award for Lux New Face of the Year) is given by Filmfare as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films to recognise a performance by a female actor in their debut role.^[1]

Filmfare Awards for Best Female Debut
The 2024 recipient: Alizeh Agnihotri
Awarded for	Best Debut Performance by an Actress
Country	India
Presented by	Filmfare
First award	Juhi Chawla Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1989)
Currently held by	Alizeh Agnihotri Farrey (2024)
Website	Filmfare winners

The first recipient of the award was Juhi Chawla, who was honored at the 34th Filmfare Awards in the year 1989. Preity Zinta and Ananya Panday are the only actresses who won the award for 2 different films. As of 2021, Priyanka Chopra and Parineeti Chopra are the only cousins to win the award while Sara Ali Khan and Abhimanyu Dassani are the only winners whose parents (Saif Ali Khan and Bhagyashree respectively) have won a Filmfare Best Debut award. Divya Bharti is the only actress to win the award for her fifth film and not for her first film.

Juhi Chawla, Preity Zinta, Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Vidya Balan, Deepika Padukone, Kangana Ranaut and Kriti Sanon are the only recipients who also won Filmfare Award for Best Actress, with Balan winning four times and Padukone winning twice.

Tabu, Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, and Kangana Ranaut have all won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress (Critics) (Tabu winning the most at 4 times and Kapoor with 2 wins) and the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress, while Vidya Balan has won the former award once. The award was not given in this category in the years 1997, 2010 and 2018. The most recent recipient of the award is Alizeh Agnihotri, who was honored at the 69th Filmfare Awards.

Winners and nominees

Table key

†	Indicates the winner
‡	Indicates the performance was also nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress

1980s

Year	Photo of winner	Actress	Role	Film
1989[a] (34th)		Juhi Chawla ‡	Rashmi Rajput	Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak
		No Other Nominee

1990s

Year	Photo of winners	Actress	Role(s)	Film(s)
1990[a] (35th)		Bhagyashree †	Suman	Maine Pyar Kiya
		No Other Nominee
1991[a] (36th)		Pooja Bhatt †	Pooja Sarin	Daddy
		No Other Nominee
1992[a] (37th)		Raveena Tandon †	Kiran Khanna	Patthar Ke Phool
		Madhoo	Pooja	Phool Aur Kaante
		Manisha Koirala	Radha	Saudagar
		Zeba Bakhtiar	Henna Khan	Henna
1993[a] (38th)		Divya Bharti ‡	Kaajal "Sonu" Pratap	Deewana
		Ayesha Jhulka	Neelam Chaudhary	Khiladi
		Kajol	Radhika	Bekhudi
		Karisma Kapoor	Jyoti	Sapne Sajan Ke
1994[a] (39th)	-	Mamta Kulkarni †	Jyoti Tripathi	Aashik Awara
		Shilpa Shetty	Seema Chopra	Baazigar
1995 (40th)		Sonali Bendre[a] †	Sonali	Naaraaz
		Tabu †	Sapna	Pehla Pehla Pyar
		No Other Nominee
1996 (41st)		Twinkle Khanna †	Tina Oberoi	Barsaat
		No Other Nominee
1997 (42nd)		Seema Biswas ‡	Phoolan Devi	Bandit Queen
		Priya Gill	Paro Shastri	Tere Mere Sapne
1998 (43rd)		Mahima Chaudhry ‡	Kusum Ganga	Pardes
		Aishwarya Rai	Ashi Kapoor	Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya
		Pooja Batra	Anita	Virasat
1999 (44th)		Preity Zinta †	Preeti Nair	Dil Se..
			Preeti Singh	Soldier
		Isha Koppikar	Anita	Ek Tha Dil Ek Thi Dhadkan
		Jyothika	Pallavi Sinha	Doli Saja Ke Rakhna

2000s

Year	Photo of winners	Actress	Role(s)	Film
2000 (45th)		Nandita Das †	Shanta	1947: Earth
		Soundarya	Radha Singh-Thakur	Sooryavansham
2001 (46th)		Kareena Kapoor †	Nazneen "Naaz" Ahmed	Refugee
		Ameesha Patel	Sonia Saxena	Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai
		Keerthi Reddy	Pooja Sinha	Tera Jadoo Chal Gayaa
		Preeti Jhangiani	Kiran	Mohabbatein
		Shamita Shetty	Ishika
2002 (47th)		Bipasha Basu †	Neeta / Sonia Bajaj	Ajnabee
		Dia Mirza	Reena Malhotra	Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein
2003 (48th)		Esha Deol †	Eisha Singh	Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe
		Amrita Rao	Anjali Thapar / Nandini	Ab Ke Baras
2004 (49th)		Lara Dutta †	Kajal Singhania	Andaaz
		Priyanka Chopra †	Jiya Singhania
		Bhumika Chawla	Nirjara Bharadwaj	Tere Naam
		Neha Dhupia	Sapna	Qayamat: City Under Threat
		Rimi Sen	Anjali Patekar	Hungama
2005 (50th)		Ayesha Takia †	Priya Kapoor	Taarzan: The Wonder Car
		No Other Nominee
2006 (51st)		Vidya Balan †	Lalita Roy	Parineeta
		No Other Nominee
2007 (52nd)		Kangana Ranaut †	Simran	Gangster
		No Other Nominee
2008 (53rd)		Deepika Padukone ‡	Shantipriya / Sandy	Om Shanti Om
		Hansika Motwani	Priya Bakshi	Aap Ka Suroor
		Jiah Khan	Jia	Nishabd
		Sonam Kapoor	Sakina	Saawariya
		Urvashi Sharma	Sophia D'Costa	Naqaab
2009 (54th)		Asin ‡	Kalpana Shetty	Ghajini
		Adah Sharma	Lisa Singh Rathod	1920
		Anushka Sharma	Taani Sahni	Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
		Mugdha Godse	Janet Sequeira	Fashion
		Prachi Desai	Sakshi Shroff	Rock On!!
		Sonal Chauhan	Zoya Mathur	Jannat

2010s

Year	Photo of winners	Actress	Role(s)	Film
2010 (55th)	NOT AWARDED
2011 (56th)		Sonakshi Sinha †	Rajjo Shreshawat	Dabangg
		Amrita Puri	Shefali Thakur	Aisha
		Sandeepa Dhar	Rajnandini Khandelwal	Isi Life Mein...!
		Shraddha Kapoor	Aparna Khanna	Teen Patti
Trisha	Gehna Ganpule	Khatta Meetha
2012 (57th)		Parineeti Chopra †	Dimple Chaddha	Ladies vs Ricky Bahl
		Kajal Aggarwal	Kavya Bhosle	Singham
		Myra Karn	Jessica Lal	No One Killed Jessica
		Nargis Fakhri	Heer Kaul	Rockstar
2013 (58th)		Ileana D'Cruz †	Shruti Ghosh Sengupta	Barfi!
		Alia Bhatt	Shanaya Singhania	Student of the Year
		Diana Penty	Meera Sahni	Cocktail
		Yami Gautam	Ashima Roy	Vicky Donor
2014 (59th)		Vaani Kapoor †	Tara	Shuddh Desi Romance
		No Other Nominee
2015 (60th)		Kriti Sanon †	Dimpy Chaudhary	Heropanti
		No Other Nominee
2016 (61st)		Bhumi Pednekar †	Sandhya	Dum Laga Ke Haisha
		No Other Nominee
2017 (62nd)		Ritika Singh †	Ezhil Madhi	Saala Khadoos
		No Other Nominee
2018 (63rd)	NOT AWARDED
2019 (64th)		Sara Ali Khan †	Mandakini "Mukku"	Kedarnath
		Banita Sandhu	Shiuli Iyer	October
		Janhvi Kapoor	Parthavi Singh Rathore	Dhadak
		Mouni Roy	Monobina Das	Gold
		Radhika Madan	Chamki Kumari	Pataakha

2020s

Year	Photo of winners	Actress	Role(s)	Film(s)
2020 (65th)		Ananya Panday †	Shreya Randhawa Tapasya Singh	Student of the Year 2 Pati Patni Aur Woh
		Pranutan Bahl	Firdaus Quadri	Notebook
		Saiee Manjrekar	Khushi Chautala	Dabangg 3
		Sharmin Segal	Astha Tripathi	Malaal
		Shivaleeka Oberoi	Mitee Deora	Yeh Saali Aashiqui
		Tara Sutaria	Mridula "Mia" Chawla	Student of the Year 2
2021 (66th)		Alaya F †	Tia Singh	Jawaani Jaaneman
		Sadia Khateeb	Shanti Dhar	Shikara
2022 (67th)		Sharvari †	Sonia Rawat / Jasmine "Jazz"	Bunty Aur Babli 2
		No Other Nominee
2023 (68th)		Andrea Kevichüsa †	Aido	Anek
		Khushalii Kumar	Saanchi Sinha	Dhokha: Round D Corner
		Manushi Chhillar	Sanyogita	Samrat Prithviraj
		Prajakta Koli	Ginny Sahni	Jugjugg Jeeyo
2024 (69th)		Alizeh Agnihotri †	Nitya	Farrey
		No Other Nominee

See also

• Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut
• Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South
• Filmfare Awards
• Hindi cinema
• Cinema of India
• List of Hindi film actresses

Footnotes

1. Awarded as "Lux New Face of the Year"