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Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ1414555 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut is given by Filmfare as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films to recognize outstanding performance by a male actor in a debut role.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut” as award. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Filmfare, Award and Best.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 33-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Filmfare, Award and Best providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1414555. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.