Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut

Zee Cine Awards for Best Female Debut
The 2026 recipient:
Aneet Padda
Awarded forBest Female Debut
CountryIndia
Presented byZee Entertainment
First awardMahima Chaudhry
Pardes (1998)
Currently held byAneet Padda
Saiyaara (2026)

The Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut is chosen by the jury members and a part of the annual Zee Cine Awards. They give awards to the new discoveries of Bollywood where they see some potential. The 1st Zee Cine Award was held on 14 March 1998 in Mumbai, India. Since then, the Award Ceremony is being held in different countries and continents.

The Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut was given in the 1st ZCA (1998). Mahima Chaudhary became the first recipient of the Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut (Jury/Critics). She received the award for Pardes (1998). The most recent recipient is Aneet Padda for Saiyaara (2026).

Winners

The winners are listed below:-

Year Portrait Name Film Ref.
1998Mahima ChaudhryPardes
1999Preity ZintaSoldier
2000Rinke KhannaPyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi
2001Ameesha PatelKaho Naa... Pyaar Hai
2002Gracy SinghLagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
2003Malini SharmaRaaz
2004Bhoomika ChawlaTere Naam
2005Gayatri JoshiSwades
2006Konkona Sen Sharma & Vidya BalanPage 3 & Parineeta
2007Kangana RanautGangster/
Woh Lamhe
2008Deepika PadukoneOm Shanti Om
2009 Not Held
2010 Not Held
2011Sonakshi SinhaDabangg
2012 Parineeti ChopraLadies VS Ricky Bahl
2013 Ileana D'Cruz & Yami Gautam Barfi!
Vicky Donor
2014 Vaani Kapoor Shuddh Desi Romance
2015 Kriti Sanon Heropanti
2016 Harshaali Malhotra &
Bhumi Pednekar
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
Dum Laga Ke Haisha
2017 Ritika Singh Saala Khadoos
2018 Nidhhi Agerwal Munna Michael
2019 Janhvi Kapoor Dhadak
2020 Ananya Panday
Tara Sutaria
Student of The Year 2 [1]
2021Not Held
2022Not Held
2023 Rashmika Mandana Goodbye
2024 Medha Shankr
Alizeh Agnihotri
12th Fail
Farrey
2025 Nitanshi Goel

Pratibha Ranta

Laapataa Ladies
2026 Aneet Padda Saiyaara [2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Zee Cine Awards 2020 Winners: Complete list of winners". The Times of India. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  2. ↑ "Saiyaara's Aneet Padda Wins Big At ZEE Cine Awards". rediff.com. India: Rediff. 2 March 2026. Retrieved 2 March 2026.