DYK Who Was The DEBUT Filmfare OTT Best Actor, Series Winner? Hint, He Is In The Family Man 3, Paatal Lok Season 2

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OTT Awards 2025: Hours are left until the winners of Filmfare OTT Awards 2025 are announced. This year’s nominations cover 38 different categories and include such riveting content such as Black Warrant, Paatal Lok Season 2, Sector 36 and The Mehta Boys. The Best Actor, Series nomination this year include Amit Sial (The Hunt: The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case), Jaideep Ahlawat (Paatal Lok Season 2), Kay Kay Menon (Shekhar Home), Roshan Mahew (Kankhajura), Vijay Varma (IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack) and Zahan Kapoor (Black Warrant). While the competition is fierce between veteran Filmfare OTT winners and a newbie like Zahan, do you know who was the first winner for Best Actor for Drama Series in Filmfare OTT?

Who Was The Debut Filmfare OTT Best Actor In A Series Winner?

The debut Filmfare OTT Awards was started in 2020 in Mumbai and included films and web series released between August 1, 2019 and July 31, 2020. Paatal Lok led the ceremony with 11 nominations, followed by Breathe: Into the Shadows and Special Ops with 8 nominations each, and Aarya, Panchayat and The Family Man with 7 nominations each.Also Read: Filmfare OTT Awards 2025 Nominations: Abhishek Bachchan, R Madhavan In Race For Best Actor; Ananya Panday, Kriti Sanon Compete For Best ActressThe Best Actor (Male) in a Drama Series saw tough competitiors in Abhishek Bachchan, whow as nominated for his act in Breathe: Into the Shadows, Arshad Warsi for Asur, Kay Kay Menon for Special Ops, Manoj Bajpayee for The Family Man and Jaideep Ahlawat for Paatal Lok. Ultimately the winner's trophy was taken home by Jaideep Ahlawat for his riveting act as the cynical copy Hathiram Chowdhary in the Sudip Sharma show.

Paatal Lok

Created by Sudip Sharma, the Paatal Lok Season 1 stars Jaideep Ahlawat, Gul Panag, Neeraj Kabi, Swastika Mukherjee, Ishwak Singh, Abhishek Banerjee, Niharika Lyra Dutt, and Richa Chaturvedi and is loosely based on Tarun Tajpal's 2010 novel The Story of My Assassins. The series would go on to win five awards at the inaugural Filmfare OTT Awards, from eight nominations. Apart from Best Actor, the series also won Best Series, Best Original Story, Best Screenplay and Best Direction.

Jaideep Ahlawat, Paatal Lok Season 2 And Filmfare OTT Awards 2025

Interestingly, Jaideep Ahlawat has been nominated once again for Best Actor for Paatal Lok, this time for Season 2 of the show. While Ahlawat and Panag reprised their roles from the first season, the second part saw the addition of Tillotama Shome, Jahnu Barua, Nagesh Kukunoor and Prashant Tamang.