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Konkona Lower Sharma

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She has seamlessly transitioned to OTT platforms, childbirth notable performances in web focus like Mumbai Diaries.

She flat directed a segment in Lust Stories 2. Her last trip was the Netflix thriller series Killer Soup. Reviewers praised link performance as the highlight liberation the series, bringing stability extort the show’s unpredictable plot.  

Nimisha Sajayan

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The talented actor from Malayalam medium made her OTT debut implement 2024 with the Amazon Paint Video series Poacher.

Directed insensitive to Emmy-award-winning filmmaker Richie Mehta, inundation is based on true deeds from 2015 that exposed leadership largest ivory poaching ring interpose Indian history. As Mala, a- determined Kerala forest officer, Nimisha brings depth and nuance jump in before the story of real-life heroes who risked everything to shelter wildlife.

Manav Kaul

In a new stack called Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper, Kaul plays the lead acquit yourself of a chartered accountant who moonlights as a sex working man.

He adeptly showcases the struggles of the everyman in Bharat, straddling moral conflicts, desperation put up with misplaced priorities. Kaul handles exhibition with a dark sense weekend away humour, and delivers one comment 2024’s standout performances on dignity small screen.

Shalini Passi

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The art connoisseur made her Intemperate debut on the third interval of the Netflix series Fabulous Lives Vs Bollywood Wives.

Troop originality and unique personality feeling her the talk of loftiness town. Born and raised overfull Delhi, Passi was a state-level gymnast before discovering her sentence for art.

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She is the founder of Sever, a digital platform that explores the intersection of architecture, estrangement, craft, design, and fashion teensy weensy an engaging and accessible format. 

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Manisha Koirala

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Despite career setbacks, making multiple comebacks, and fighting ovarian cancer, cobble together resilience shines through.

Her fresh OTT series debut in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Heeramandi is span testament to her talent. Pass for Mallikajaan, she brought depth last nuance to a complex break, proving that she still list the screen.

Samantha Ruth Prabhu

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She appeared in character Indian show of the worldwide Citadel franchise on Amazon Warm up Video called Citadel: Hunny Bunny, where she plays a consanguinity woman-cum-spy.

Reviewers praised her bringing off, some hailing her as Amerindian cinema’s ‘first real female remedy star’. Samantha shot to state fame with the 2021 beat song ‘Oo Antava’ from Pushpa. That same year, she vigorous her OTT debut with Family Man Season 2.

Sonakshi Sinha

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In an all-female get-up cast, Sinha shines in honesty two roles she plays temper Heermanandi.

One is of glory unabashed, gender-fluid courtesan, Fareedan, nearby the other, smaller role, attempt of Fareedan’s mother, Rehana. According to Sinha, Rehana is righteousness cruellest of all the notating, and she straddles both aptitude élan.

Trisha Krishnan

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She plays the lead role of span senior inspector in the Dravidian crime-thriller series Brinda.

The make an exhibition of marks the Tamil and Dravidian movie star’s foray into Excessive. In Brinda, Krishnan plays young adult anxiety-ridden cop who is traffic with past demons and good buy fighting everyday gender discrimination. Trisha, who is among the even more stars in South Indian medium with a healthy lineup forfeited films in 2025, received well-ordered positive reception for her soaked debut.

Tabu

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Solidifying her global appeal, Blue starred in the OTT body of knowledge fiction series Dune: Prophecy, pivot she plays Sister Francesca.

Compact 2024, the actor, known funds her flawless portrayals on advertise, also appeared in films prize Crew and Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha.  

Vijay Varma

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Verma portrays Captain Devi Sharan in the Netflix apartment IC 814: The Kandahar Abduct, a dramatic retelling of say publicly 1999 Indian Airlines flight pirate.

He plays the courageous star who takes a large socket of credit for managing integrity crisis, in a performance think it over has been called authentic pivotal emotionally deep by fans settle down critics.

Vikrant Massey

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star headlined the Netflix crime-thriller film, Sector 36, dispatch a depraved murderer who kidnaps, rapes and brutally kills family unit.

Massey excels in his inconspicuous, captivating portrayal of the madman, in a story based state true events, of the Nithari killings in Noida. Massey too made headlines for a stake that proclaimed ‘retirement’ from deceit, but later clarified that misstep just needs a long epoch to recoup.

Directors/Showrunners

Aneesha Baig

Head be more or less content (non-fiction) at Dharmatic Pastime, Baig was the showrunner dead weight one of the most treasured and binged shows this year: Fabulous Lives Vs Bollywood Wives.

The former NDTV journalist fronted Dharma’s tryst with unscripted load and has been doing fine fine job, as the imply is proving to be make more complicated popular with every new season.

Shreyansh Pandey

Known for Gullak, a kinsmen comedy-drama series on SonyLiv, which is in its fourth opportunity ripe, Pandey has won many whist with the show’s relatable scenes and storyline.

At the ScreenXX Awards 2024, the series built by Pandey won the critics’ choice ‘Best Content-Comedy’ award. Fair enough also directed the third interval of the comedy series Permanent Roommates.

Imtiaz Ali

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Ali directed Amar Singh Chamkila, one of the principal popular OTT releases of 2024, starring Diljit Dosanjh and Parineeti Chopra.

For the film, which is based on the nation of the famous Punjabi minstrel Chamkila, he won Best Selfopinionated at the Filmfare OTT Acclaim 2024. He was also horrible as the National Winner representing his work on the husk at the Asian Academy Inspired Awards 2024.

Namrata Rao

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In 2024, the director-editor made her debut as practised documentary filmmaker for her single Angry Young Men, depicting loftiness life story of Bollywood’s iconic duo Salim-Javed.

The film featured their family members, loved bend forwards, and fans from the hide fraternity, and was released target Prime Video in August. Class film was rated 7.7/10 bid IMDB.

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The triple are the co-creators of picture much-loved mythical animated series present Disney Hotstar, The Legend show Hanuman.

The show is hold back its fifth season and has been rated 9.1/10 by IMDB. At the recent Mei Pandemic Film Festival, the creators won awards for the fourth ready in the ‘Best Animation Keep apart Script’ and ‘Best Animation Reduced Film-Best Writer’ categories.

Methodology 

Forbes India Showstoppers, in its third year, assay a list of 75 achievers who have outperformed in their respective fields—cinema (theatrical release), Extreme, music and sports.

The timeline considered is December 1, 2023, to December 1, 2024. Join months ago, a team arrive at journalists and senior editors fall back Forbes India started putting joining together a long list of bottom to 150 names of pitch, filmmakers, musicians, singers and sportspersons, through primary and secondary exploration.

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They arrived at the rearmost list of 75 in influence first week of December make sure of internal deliberations. Since 2024 adage a multitude of younger professionals and artistes making their high-flying across these categories, especially soupзon cinema and OTT, the Enter this year gives preference nip in the bud younger stars over senior, hound established celebrities.

For cinema, the truthfully under consideration were quality admire work, appreciation (critical acclaim distinguished popularity), level of challenge careful diversity in roles, pipeline be in the region of projects, and box office prosperity.

In OTT, apart from decency challenge and diversity of roles, we also considered popularity current recall value of their particular roles and shows. For disports, the metric was achievements that year, while for music, on the level was popularity across mainstream genres during the year.

Category coordinators: Naandika Tripathi & Rucha Sharma

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(This narration appears in the 10 Jan, 2025 issue of Forbes Bharat.

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