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ITA Award for Best Actor Drama Popular

Award presented annually by Indian television academy awards

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ68485201 ↗
Source-derived summary

ITA Award for Best Actor Drama Popular is an award given by the Indian Television Academy as a part of its annual event to the male actor who receives the highest votes by the public. First awarded in 2001, the award was originally named Desh Ka Sitara but was later renamed to Best Actor Popular.

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Harshad Chopda holds the record for the most wins in the category, having won the award six times. Chopda has achieved five consecutive wins from 2021 to 2025.

Ronit Roy, Dheeraj Dhoopar, Karan Mehra, and Nakuul Mehta are next in line, each of whom have won the award twice.

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The public source identifies “ITA Award for Best Actor Drama Popular” as award presented annually by Indian television academy awards. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Award, Best and Actor.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2021, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Award, Best and Actor providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q68485201. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001, 2021 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “ITA Award for Best Actor Drama Popular” 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.