Mumbai: Preeti Panigrahi, who hails from Odisha, won Best Actor (Critics’ Choice – Female) for her performance in ‘Girls Will Be Girls’ at Filmfare OTT Awards 2025 held in Mumbai on Monday night.
Preeti had earlier received the Special Jury Award for Acting at the Sundance Film Festival 2024 for the film through which the 22-year-old made her screen debut, playing a high school student, Mira, tackling the expectations of being the ‘perfect student’, her own desires and her intriguing relationship/bond with her mother.
Preeti has lived in Delhi most of her life and is studying animation at the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute (SRFTI).
Preeti, however, was not the lone Odia to win accolades at the event. The Filmfare Award for Breakthrough Performance by a Newcomer (Female), Series, went to Lisa Mishra for ‘Call Me Bae’ in which she played news producer Harleen. Lisa spent her childhood in Berhampur before moving to Chicago at the age of six.
The Filmfare OTT Awards 2025 celebrated the best in streaming content with an array of stars in attendance. The awards honoured outstanding performances across series, films and short films. While ‘Paatal Lok Season 2’ and ‘Black Warrant’ dominated the awards in the series category, ‘Girls Will Be Girls’ dazzled in the film categories.
Here is the full list of winners
Series
Best Series (Critics): Paatal Lok Season 2
Best Director (Series): Nagesh Kukunoor (The Hunt: The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case)
Best Director, Series (Critics): Anubhav Sinha (IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack)
Best Actor (Male), Drama: Jaideep Ahlawat (Paatal Lok Season 2)
Best Actor (Female), Drama: Monika Panwar (Khauf)
Best Actor (Male), Critics, Drama: Zahan Kapoor (Black Warrant)
Best Actor (Female), Critics, Drama: Rasika Dugal (Shekhar Home)
Best Comedy (Series/Special): Raat Jawaan Hai (Sumeet Vyas)
Best Actor (Male), Comedy: Barun Sobti (Raat Jawaan Hai), Sparsh Shrivastava (Dupahiya)
Best Actor (Female), Comedy: Ananya Panday (Call Me Bae)
Best Supporting Actor (Male), Drama: Rahul Bhat (Black Warrant)
Best Supporting Actor (Female), Drama: Tillotama Shome (Paatal Lok Season 2)
Best Supporting Actor (Male), Comedy: Vinay Pathak (Gram Chikitsalay)
Best Supporting Actor (Female), Comedy: Renuka Shahane (Dupahiya)
Best Non-Fiction Original: Angry Young Men (Namrata Rao)
Best Story (Series): Smita Singh (Khauf), Sudip Sharma (Paatal Lok Season 2)
Best Original Screenplay (Series): Sudip Sharma & team (Paatal Lok Season 2)
Best Adapted Screenplay (Series): Satyanshu Singh & Arkesh Ajay (Black Warrant)
Best Dialogue (Series): Anubhav Sinha & Trishant Srivastava (IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack)
Best Cinematography (Series): Pankaj Kumar (Khauf)
Best Production Design (Series): Priya Suhaas & Surabhi Verma (Freedom at Midnight)
Best Editing (Series): Tanya Chhabria (Khauf)
Best Costume Design (Series): Ayesha Dasgupta (Freedom at Midnight)
Best Background Music (Series): Alokananda Dasgupta (Khauf)
Best VFX (Series): Phantom FX (Khauf)
Best Sound Design (Series): Bigyna Dahal (Khauf)
Best Music Album (Series): Akashdeep Sengupta (Bandish Bandits Season 2)
Best Debut Director (Series): Pushkar Sunil Mahabal (Black, White & Gray – Love Kills)
Breakthrough Performance (Male): Anurag Thakur (Black Warrant)
Breakthrough Performance (Female): Lisa Mishra (Call Me Bae)
Films
Best Film: Girls Will Be Girls
Best Director: Shuchi Talati (Girls Will Be Girls)
Best Film (Critics): The Mehta Boys (Boman Irani)
Best Actor (Male): Abhishek Banerjee (Stolen)
Best Actor (Female): Sanya Malhotra (Mrs)
Best Actor (Male), Critics: Vikrant Massey (Sector 36)
Best Actor (Female), Critics: Preeti Panigrahi (Girls Will Be Girls)
Best Supporting Actor (Male): Deepak Dobriyal (Sector 36)
Best Supporting Actor (Female): Kani Kusruti (Girls Will Be Girls)
Best Story: Karan Tejpal & team (Stolen)
Best Original Screenplay: Avinash Sampath & Vikramaditya Motwane (Ctrl)
Best Dialogue: Vijay Maurya (Agni)
Best Cinematography: Isshaan Ghosh (Stolen)
Best Production Design: Acropolis & team (Agni)
Best Editing: Jahaan Noble (Ctrl)
Best Background Music: Sneha Khanwalkar (Ctrl)
Best Sound Design: Susmit Bob Nath (Stolen)
Best Music Album: Justin Prabhakaran & Rochak Kohli (Aap Jaisa Koi)
Best Debut Director: Karan Tejpal (Stolen), Aditya Nimbalkar (Sector 36)
Breakthrough Performance (Male): Shubham Vardhan (Stolen)
Breakthrough Performance (Female): Arrchita Agarwal (Despatch)
Short Films:
Best Short Film (People’s Choice): Divorce (Raaghav Kansal)
Best Actor (Female): Fatima Sana Shaikh (Ayesha)
Best Actor (Male): Ayan Khan (Chashma)
Best Short Film (Fiction): Ayesha (Nihat Bhave)
Best Short Film (Non-Fiction): Langur (Haider Khan)
Best Director: Renuka Shahane (Dhaavpatti)
