# Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role

Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role Male is an award given as a part of the annual Indian Telly Awards.
The award was first awarded in 2002 under the title TV Actor Of The Year. A special award called Best Actor Jury was also awarded occasionally in 2000s, whose winner was selected by the jury of critics assigned to the function.
The jury award was awarded without prior nominations until 2012. Since then, the jury award is also awarded with nominations just like the original award which is now called Best Actor Popular.

## Superlatives

| Superlative | Popular | Popular | Overall (Popular + Jury) | Overall (Popular + Jury) |
| Actor with most awards | Ram Kapoor | 3 | Ram Kapoor | 3 |
| Actor with most nominations | Ronit Roy | 8 | Ronit Roy | 9 |
| Actor with most nominations (without ever winning) | Varun Badola | 5 | Varun Badola | 5 |

## Popular Award
### 2000s

* 2001 Not Awarded
* 2002 Kiran Karmarkar for Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii as Om Agarwal & Shivaji Satam for CID as ACP Pradyuman.
** Aamir Bashir for Sarhadein as Aman Malik
** Ali Asgar for Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii as Kamal Agarwal
** Govind Namdeo for Ankahee as Pradhan
** Ravi Khanvillkar for Haqeeqat as Sadanand
** Varun Badola for Des Mein Niklla Hoga Chand as Dev Mallik
* 2003 Aman Verma for Kehta Hai Dil as Adityapratap Singh & Shivaji Satam for CID as ACP Pradyuman.
** Cezanne Khan for Kasautii Zindagii Kay as Anurag Basu
** Kiran Karmarkar for Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii as Om Agarwal
** Mihir Mishra for Sanjivani as Dr. Rahul Mehra
** Ronit Roy for Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi as Mihir Virani
** Varun Badola for Astitva...Ek Prem Kahani as Abhimanyu Saxena
* 2004 Hiten Tejwani for Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi as Karan Virani.
** Hussain Kuwajerwala for Kumkum – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan as Sumit Wadhwa
** Kiran Karmarkar for Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii as Om Agarwal
** Rajeev Khandelwal for Kahiin To Hoga as Sujal Garewal
** Ronit Roy for Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi as Mihir Virani
** Shivaji Satam for C.I.D. as ACP Pradyuman
** Varun Badola for Astitva...Ek Prem Kahani as Abhimanyu Saxena
* 2005 Apoorva Agnihotri for Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin as Armaan Suri.
** Eijaz Khan for Kkavyanjali as Kavya Nanda
** Hussain Kuwajerwala for Kumkum – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan as Sumit Wadhwa
** Pawan Shankar for Siddhanth as Siddhanth
** Rajeev Khandelwal for Kahiin To Hoga as Sujal Garewal
** Ronit Roy for Kasautii Zindagii Kay as Rishabh Bajaj
** Varun Badola for Astitva...Ek Prem Kahani as Abhimanyu Saxena
* 2006 Ram Kapoor for Kasamh Se as Jai Walia.
** Arvind Rathod for Thodi Khushi Thode Gham as Mansukh Lal Shah
** Eijaz Khan for Kkavyanjali as Kavya Nanda
** Hussain Kuwajerwala for Kumkum as Sumit Wadhwa
** Rajeev Khandelwal for Left Right Left as Captain Rajveer Singh Shekhawat
** Ronit Roy for Kasautii Zindagii Kay as Rishabh Bajaj
** Pawan Shankar for Siddhanth as Siddhanth
** Shakti Anand for Ek Ladki Anjaani Si as Nikhil Samarth
* 2007 Ram Kapoor for Kasamh Se as Jai Walia.
** Apoorva Agnihotri for Kaajjal as Dev Pratap Singh
** Hussain Kuwajerwala for Kumkum – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan as Sumit Wadhwa
** Rajeev Khandelwal for Left Right Left as Captain Rajveer Singh Shekhawat
** Rohit Roy for Viraasat as Rahul Lamba
** Shabbir Ahluwalia for Kayamath as Milind Mishra
** Sharad Malhotra for Banoo Main Teri Dulhann as Sagar Pratap Singh
** Sushant Singh for Virrudh as Sushant
** Varun Badola for Aek Chabhi Hai Padoss Mein as Sandeep Shukla
* 2008 Sharad Malhotra for Banoo Main Teri Dulhann as Sagar Pratap Singh.
** Angad Hasija for Sapna Babul Ka...Bidaai as Alekh Rajvansh
** Harshad Chopda for Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil as Prem Juneja
** Karan Singh Grover for Dill Mill Gaye as Dr. Armaan Mallik
** Ram Kapoor for Kasamh Se as Jai Walia
** Shabbir Ahluwalia for Kayamath as Milind Mishra
* 2009 Ronit Roy for Bandini as Dharamraj Mahiyavanshi.
** Angad Hasija for Sapna Babul Ka...Bidaai as Alekh Rajvansh
** Avinash Sachdev for Chotti Bahu – Sindoor Bin Suhagan as Dev Raj Purohit
** Karan Mehra for Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai as Naitik Singhania
** Sushant Singh Rajput for Pavitra Rishta as Manav Deshmukh

### 2010s

* 2010 Harshad Chopda for Tere Liye as Anurag Ganguly.
** Aditya Redij for Na Aana Is Des Laado as Raghav
** Arhaan Behl for Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya as Krishna Singh
** Iqbal Khan for Sanjog Se Bani Sangini as Rudra
** Karan Mehra for Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai as Naitik
** Nandish Sandhu for Uttaran as Veer Singh Bundela
** Ronit Roy for Bandini as Dharamraj Mahiyanshi
** Sushant Singh Rajput for Pavitra Rishta as Manav Deshmukh
* 2011 Not Awarded
* 2012 Ram Kapoor for Bade Achhe Lagte Hain as Ram Kapoor & Samir Soni for Parichay as Kunal Chopra.
** Anas Rashid for Diya Aur Baati Hum as Sooraj Arun Rathi
** Gurmeet Chaudhary for Geet – Hui Sabse Parayi as Maan Singh Khurana
** Hiten Tejwani for Pavitra Rishta as Manav Damodar Deshmukh
** Ronit Roy for Adaalat as KD Pathak
* 2013 Anas Rashid for Diya Aur Baati Hum as Sooraj Rathi & Kunal Karan Kapoor for Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha as Mohan Bhatnagar.
** Vivian Dsena for Madhubala - Ek Ishq Ek Junoon as Rishabh Kundra
** Gurmeet Chaudhary for Punar Vivaah as Yash Sindhia
** Mohit Raina for Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev as Shiva
** Karan Singh Grover for Qubool Hai as Asad Khan
** Ram Kapoor for Bade Achhe Lagte Hain as Ram Kapoor
* 2014 Gautam Rode for Saraswatichandra as Saraswatichandra & Rajat Tokas for Jodha Akbar as Akbar.
** Karan Patel for Yeh Hai Mohabbatein as Raman Bhalla
** Mohit Raina for Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev as Shiva
** Anas Rashid for Diya Aur Baati Hum as Sooraj Rathi
** Shaheer Sheikh for Mahabharat as Arjuna
** Saurabh Raj Jain for Mahabharat as Krishna
** Ashish Sharma for Rangrasiya as Rudra
* 2015 Karan Patel for Yeh Hai Mohabbatein as Raman Bhalla.
** Shabbir Ahluwalia for Kumkum Bhagya as Abhishek Mehra
** Ronit Roy for Itna Karo Na Mujhe Pyar as Nachiket Khanna
** Shakti Arora for Meri Aashiqui Tumse Hi as Ranveer Vaghela
** Ravi Dubey for Jamai Raja as Siddharth Khurana
** Anas Rashid for Diya Aur Baati Hum as Sooraj Rathi
** Sharad Malhotra for Bharat Ka Veer Putra – Maharana Pratap as Maharana Pratap
* 2016 Not Awarded
* 2017 Not Awarded
* 2018 Not Awarded
* 2019 Nakuul Mehta as Shivaay Singh Oberoi for Ishqbaaaz.
** Harshad Chopda as Aditya Hooda for Bepannah
** Parth Samthaan as Anurag Basu for Kasautii Zindagii Kay
** Shaheer Sheikh as Salim for Dastaan-E-Mohabbat Salim Anarkali
** Shakti Arora as Kunal Malhotra for Silsila Badalte Rishton Ka
** Mohit Malik as Sikander Singh Gill for Kullfi Kumarr Bajewala
** Arjun Bijlani as Deep Raj Singh for Ishq Mein Marjawan
** Vivek Dahiya as for Qayamat Ki Raat
** Siddharth Nigam as Aladdin for Aladdin - Naam Toh Suna Hoga
** Pearl V Puri as Mahir Sehgal for Naagin 3
** Karan Patel as Raman Bhalla for Yeh Hai Mohabbatein
** Mohsin Khan as Kartik Goenka for Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai
** Vivian Dsena as Harman Singh for Shakti - Astitva Ke Ehsaas Ki
** Shabir Ahluwalia as Abhishek Mehra for Kumkum Bhagya

### 2020s

* 2020
Not Awarded
* 2021
Not Awarded
* 2022
Not Awarded
* 2023 Sumeet Raghavan for Wagle Ki Duniya – Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey as Rajesh Wagle & Pravisht Mishra for Banni Chow Home Delivery as Yuvan Singh Rathore.
** Gaurav Khanna for Anupamaa as Anuj Kapadia
** Nakuul Mehta for Bade Achhe Lagte Hain 2 as Ram Kapoor
** Ankit Gupta for Udaariyaan as Fateh Singh Virk
** Shaheer Sheikh for Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi as Dev Dixit

## Jury Award

* 2005 Pawan Shankar for Siddhanth as Siddhanth.
* 2006 Not Awarded
* 2007 Sharad Malhotra for Banoo Main Teri Dulhann as Sagar Pratap Singh.
* 2008 Not Awarded
* 2009 Not Awarded
* 2010 Deven Bhojani for Baa Bahoo Aur Baby as Gopal "Gattu" Thakkar.
* 2011 Not Awarded
* 2012 Manish Wadhwa for Chandragupta Maurya as Chanakya.
** Jay Soni for Sasural Genda Phool as Ishaan Kashyap
** Ram Kapoor for Bade Acche Lagte Hain as Ram Kapoor
** Mohnish Behl for Kuch Toh Log Kahenge as Dr. Ashutosh
** Narendra Jha for Havan as Hari Om Bappaji
* 2013 Mohit Raina for Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev as Shiva.
** Sumit Vats for Hitler Didi as Rishi Diwan
** Dilip Joshi for Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah as Jethalal Gada
** Bhavesh Balchandani for Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera as Ranvijay Singh
** Ram Kapoor for Bade Achhe Lagte Hain as Ram Kapoor
* 2014 Anil Kapoor for 24 as Jai Singh Rathod.
** Mohit Raina for Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev as Shiva
** Ram Kapoor for Bade Achhe Lagte Hain as Ram Kapoor
** Gautam Rode for Saraswatichandra as Saraswatichandra
** Yash Tonk for Pavitra Bandhan as Girish
* 2015 Not Awarded
* 2016 Not Awarded
* 2017 Not Awarded
* 2018 Not Awarded
* 2019 Mohit Raina for 21 Sarfarosh – Saragarhi 1897 as Havildar Ishar Singh
* 2023 Gaurav Khanna for Anupamaa as Anuj Kapadia