‘The White Tiger’ star Adarsh Gourav tops IMDb Breakout Stars 2021 list

IMDb has unveiled a list featuring celebrities from Indian films and web series who had breakthrough career moments this year. Adarsh Gourav who essayed the role of Balram Halwai in the American comedy-drama film ‘The White Tiger’ (2020), has earned the top spot on the IMDb year-end list of stars who had breakout career moments in 2021

IMDb has recognized the top stars featured in an Indian streaming film or web series who had breakthrough career moments this year. The rankings are determined by IMDbPro STARmeter data on the actual page views of the hundreds of millions of IMDb customers worldwide. The list also has The Family Man’s Ashlesha Thakur and Malavika Mohanan in the second and third spots respectively.

IMDb Top 10 Breakout Stars of Indian Films and Web Series 2021:

Adarsh Gourav

Adarsh Gourav is best known for his portrayal of Mohit Chadda in the 2017 film ‘Mom’, which featured the late Sridevi in the lead role. For ‘The White Tiger,’ he garnered international acclaim. The actor became an overnight star since then and has been getting a lot of praise from fans and critics.

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Ashlesha Thakur

Ashlesha Thakur is best known for playing the role of Manoj Bajpai’s daughter Dhriti character in the Amazon Prime Videos web-show, ‘The Family Man.’ She was also a part of the black comedy drama film, ‘Pagglait’ featuring Sanya Malhotra.

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Malavika Mohanan

Malavika Mohanan made her acting debut in the 2013 Malayalam film ‘Pattam Pole’ and Tamil debut with ‘Petta’ (2019). Later, in 2017, she made her Bollywood debut with the drama film, ‘Beyond the Clouds’ opposite Ishaan Khatter. Earlier this year, she starrer in Vijay and Vijay Sethupathi’s film, ‘Master.’

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Manoj Bajpayee

Manoj Bajpayee predominantly works in Hindi cinema. He has starred in many Bollywood movies such as Gangs of Wasseypur, Satyameva Jayate, Aligarh, Aiyaary, Rajneeti, Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari, and many others.

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Kritika Kamra

Kritika Kamra is known for playing Arohi in television shows ‘Kitani Mohabbat Hai’,  ‘Kuch Toh Log Kahenge’, ‘Reporters’ and ‘Prem Ya Paheli – Chandrakanta.’ Earlier this year, she starred in the web-series, ‘Tandav’ opposite Saif Ali Khan.

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Shahana Goswami

Shahana Goswami was recently seen in the web series ‘Bombay Begums’, directed by Alankrita Shrivastava. Starring Pooja Bhatt, Amruta Subhash, Plabita Borthakur, and Aadhya Anand. She was also a part of ‘A Suitable Boy.’

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Sunny Hinduja

Sunny Hinduja was seen in web series like ‘Chacha Vidhayak Hain Humare’, ‘Aspirants’, ‘The Family Man’ and ‘Inside Edge’ and a web film ‘Jamun’.

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Vikrant Massey

Vikrant Massey was recently seen in ‘Haseen Dilruba’ opposite Taapsee Pannu and Harshvardhan Rane, he was also a part of ’14 Phere.’ with Kriti Kharbanda.

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Ahsaas Channa 

Ahsaas Channa appeared as a child actor in Hindi films such as ‘Vaastu Shastra’, ‘Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna’, ‘My Friend Ganesha’, ‘Phoonk’, etc. Recently, she was a part of web shows like ‘Girls Hostel 2.0, ‘The Interns 2,’ and ‘Kota Factory 2.’

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Sai Tamhankar

Sai Tamhankar is known for her work in Marathi and Hindi language films. She was recently in a Netflix film, ‘Mimi’ opposite Kriti Sanon and Pankaj Tripathi.

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