MFK Award for Favourite Actor

Maharashtracha Favourite Kon? for Favourite Actor
The 2022 recipient: Riteish Deshmukh for Ved
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Country	India
Presented by	Zee Talkies
First award	Makarand Anaspure, De Dhakka (2009)
Currently held by	Riteish Deshmukh, Ved (2023)

Maharashtracha Favourite Kon? Award for Favourite Actor is given by Zee Talkies as part of its annual Maharashtracha Favourite Kon? ceremony for Marathi films.[1][2] The award was first given in 2009.

Superlatives

Superlative	Actor	Record
Actor with most awards	Sachin Khedekar Riteish Deshmukh	3
Actor with most nominations	Sachin Khedekar Ankush Chaudhari Swapnil Joshi	8
Actor with most consecutive nominations	Sachin Khedekar (2010-2014)	5
Actor with most nominations without ever winning	Bharat Jadhav Atul Kulkarni Prathamesh Parab	3
Actor with most nominations in a single year	Sachin Khedekar (2021)	3
	Ankush Chaudhari (2015) Amey Wagh (2017)	2
Oldest winner	Prasad Oak (2022)	48
Oldest nominee	Dilip Prabhavalkar (2014)	70
Youngest winner	Akash Thosar (2016)	23
Youngest nominee	Srinivas Pokle (2018)	8

• With three wins, Sachin Khedekar and Riteish Deshmukh have the most awards. Khedekar also holds the record for most consecutive wins, having won the award for three years in a row from 2010 to 2012.
• Actors who have won both Favourite Actor and Favourite Supporting Actor awards include Ankush Chaudhari, Sachin Khedekar and Prasad Oak.
• Two actors have won the Favourite Actor award for their debut performances: Riteish Deshmukh for Lai Bhaari (2014) and Akash Thosar for Sairat (2016). Other actors who got nominated in this category for their debut performances are Prathamesh Parab for Timepass (2014), Lalit Prabhakar for Chi Va Chi Sau Ka (2017) and Srinivas Pokle for Naal (2018).
• Akash Thosar became the youngest winner of the Favourite Actor award at the age of 23 for Sairat (2016), while Srinivas Pokle became the youngest Favourite Actor nominee in the history of MFK at the age of 8 for Naal (2018).
• Sachin Khedekar has the highest number of consecutive nominations, having been nominated for the award every year from 2010 till 2014; followed by Swapnil Joshi being nominated consecutive four times from 2013 to 2016 and winning the award in 2013 for Duniyadari.
• Ankush Chaudhari and Amey Wagh hold the record for the highest number of Favourite Actor nominations in a single year. Chaudhari has been nominated twice in 2015 and Wagh in 2017.
• Swapnil Joshi, Parth Bhalerao, Prathamesh Parab and Makarand Anaspure are the only actors to be nominated twice for the same role. Joshi achieved this feat twice in the Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai franchise, being nominated for his role as Gautam Pradhan (in 2011 for Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai and in 2016 for Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai 2). Parth Bhalerao as nominated in two consecutive year 2017 and 2018 for his role as Dhungraj in Boyz and Boyz 2. Prathamesh Parab was nominated in 2014 and 2022 for his role as Dagadu Parab in Timepass and Timepass 3 and Makarand Anaspure was nominated in 2009 and 2022 for his role as Makarand Jadhav in De Dhakka and De Dhakka 2, winning in 2009.
• Dagadu Parab is the only character for which two Favourite Actor awards were nominated, both Prathamesh Parab (in 2014 and 2022) and Priyadarshan Jadhav (in 2015) nominated for Timepass.

Winners and nominees

Year	Photos of winners	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2009		Makarand Anaspure †	Makarand Jadhav	De Dhakka	[1]
		Sachin Pilgaonkar	Mukund (Kandya) Satpute	Amhi Satpute
		Bharat Jadhav	Galgale	Galgale Nighale
		Ankush Chaudhari	Vicky	Uladhaal
2010		Sachin Khedekar †	Dinkar Bhosale	Me Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy	[3]
		Atul Kulkarni	Guna Kagalkar	Natarang
		Girish Kulkarni	Mangesh Nadkarni	Gandha
		Upendra Limaye	Tayappa	Jogwa
2011		Sachin Khedekar †	Shridhar	Taryanche Bait
		Bharat Jadhav	Madhukar Rane	Shikshanachya Aaicha Gho
		Sachit Patil	Arjun	Arjun
		Swapnil Joshi	Gautam Pradhan	Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai
		Subodh Bhave	Balgandharva	Balgandharva
2012		Sachin Khedekar †	Hari Dada Damle	Kaksparsh
		Girish Kulkarni	Keshav Rambhol	Deool
		Jitendra Joshi	Tukaram	Tukaram
		Bharat Jadhav	Ravi	One Room Kitchen
		Makarand Anaspure	Dattu	Dambis
2013		Swapnil Joshi †	Shreyas Talwalkar	Duniyadari	[2]
		Sachin Pilgaonkar	Arun Deshpande	Ekulti Ek
		Atul Kulkarni	Ram Subramanyam	Premachi Goshta
		Vikram Gokhale	Ratnakar	Anumati
		Sachin Khedekar	Ramchandra Gokhale	Kokanastha
2014		Riteish Deshmukh †	Prince/Maauli	Lai Bhaari
		Swapnil Joshi	Satyajeet Pathak	Mangalashtak Once More
		Sachin Khedekar	Vyankatesh Kulkarni	Pitruroon
		Mahesh Manjrekar	Pradeep Sharma	Rege
		Prathamesh Parab	Dagadu Parab	Timepass
		Dilip Prabhavalkar	Narba	Narbachi Wadi
2015		Ankush Chaudhari †	Satya	Classmates
		Ankush Chaudhari	Amit Naik	Double Seat
		Nana Patekar	Prakash Amte	Dr. Prakash Baba Amte – The Real Hero
		Swapnil Joshi	Amar	Pyaar Vali Love Story
		Atul Kulkarni	Niranjan	Happy Journey
		Priyadarshan Jadhav	Dagadu Parab	Timepass 2
2016		Akash Thosar †	Prashant (Parshya) Kale	Sairat
		Nana Patekar	Ganpat Belvalkar	Natsamrat
		Subodh Bhave	Sadashiv Gurav	Katyar Kaljat Ghusali
		Swapnil Joshi	Gautam Pradhan	Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai 2
		Ankush Chaudhari	Suryakant	Dagadi Chawl
2017		Amey Wagh †	Banesh Fene	Faster Fene
		Amey Wagh	Alok	Muramba
		Lalit Prabhakar	Satyaprakash	Chi Va Chi Sau Ka
		Ankush Chaudhari	Anurag	Ti Saddhya Kay Karte
		Jitendra Joshi	Prasanna Kamerkar	Ventilator
		Parth Bhalerao	Dhungraj	Boyz
2018		Subodh Bhave †	Vilas	Pushpak Vimaan
		Parth Bhalerao	Dhungraj	Boyz 2
		Srinivas Pokle	Chaitya	Naal
		Om Bhutkar	Rahul (Rahulya) Patil	Mulshi Pattern
		Bhausaheb Shinde	Baban	Baban
2019		Lalit Prabhakar †	Gopal Joshi	Anandi Gopal
		Swapnil Joshi	Sunil Kulkarni	Mogra Phulaalaa
		Ankush Chaudhari	Krishna	Triple Seat
		Chinmay Mandlekar	Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj	Fatteshikast
		Prathamesh Parab	Thoke	Takatak
		Sanjay Narvekar	Anna	Ye Re Ye Re Paisa 2
2021		Riteish Deshmukh †	Prince/Maauli	Lai Bhaari	[4]
		Sachin Khedekar	Dinkar Bhosale	Me Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy
			Shridhar	Taryanche Bait
			Hari Dada Damle	Kaksparsh
		Akash Thosar	Prashant (Parshya) Kale	Duniyadari
		Swapnil Joshi	Shreyas Talwalkar	Duniyadari
		Ankush Chaudhari	Satya	Classmates
		Amey Wagh	Banesh Fenw	Faster Fene
		Subodh Bhave	Vilas	Pushpak Vimaan
		Lalit Prabhakar	Gopal Joshi	Anandi Gopal
2022		Prasad Oak †	Anand Dighe	Dharmaveer	[5]
		Adinath Kothare	Daulatrao Deshmane	Chandramukhi
		Amey Wagh	Sudhir Joshi	Zombivli
		Lalit Prabhakar	Vishwas/Jaggu
		Bhau Kadam	Pandu	Pandu
		Sharad Kelkar	Baji Prabhu Deshpande	Har Har Mahadev
		Prathamesh Parab	Dagadu Parab	Timepass 3
		Makarand Anaspure	Makarand Jadhav	De Dhakka 2
2023		Riteish Deshmukh †	Satya Jadhav	Ved	[6][7][8]
		Ankush Chaudhari	Shahir Sable	Maharashtra Shahir
		Swapnil Joshi	Aniket	Vaalvi
		Subodh Bhave	Dr. Anshuman
		Nagraj Manjule	Inspector Raya Patil	Ghar Banduk Biryani
		Ajay Purkar	Tanaji Malusare	Subhedar

References

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