Indian Telly Award for Best Onscreen Couple explained

Indian Telly Award for Best Onscreen Couple is an award given by Indiantelevision as part of its annual Indian Telly Awards for TV serials, to recognize a pair that have stood out and been appreciated by the Indian audience and given an outstanding performance as a couple onscreen.

The award was first awarded in 2002. The category was removed in 2008 and the award was not awarded until 2012. Only once, in 2012, the award was awarded with prior nominations.

Superlatives

Superlative	Best Onscreen Couple
Actor with most awards		2
Actress with most awards	Divyanka Tripathi	3
Onscreen Couples with most awards	Cezanne Khan and Shweta Tiwari Karan Patel and Divyanka Tripathi	2
Onscreen Couples with most nominations without winning any award	Hiten Tejwani and Gauri Pradhan Tejwani Hussain Kuwajerwala and Juhi Parmar	5

List of winners (Popular)

2000-2009

• 2001
  Not Awarded
• 2002
  Cezanne Khan & Shweta Tiwari as Anurag Basu and Prerna Sharma for Kasautii Zindagii Kay
  • Hiten Tejwani & Gauri Pradhan Tejwani as Pratham and Gauri for Kutumb
  • Juhi Parmar & Hussain Kuwajerwala as Kumkum Wadhawa and Sumit Wadhawa for Kumkum
  • Puneet Vasishtha & Aparna Tilak as Kabir and Sanjana for Kohi Apna Sa
• 2003
  Cezanne Khan & Shweta Tiwari as Anurag Basu & Prerna Basu for Kasautii Zindagii Kay
  • Rajeev Khandelwal & Aamna Shariff - Kahin To Hoga as Sujal Garewal and Kashish Sinha
  • Hiten Tejwani & Gauri Pradhan Tejwani - Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi as Karan and Nandini
  • Juhi Parmar & Hussain Kuwajerwala - Kumkum as Kumkum and Sumit Wadhawa
• 2004
  Rajeev Khandelwal & Aamna Shariff as Sujal Garewal and Kashish Sinha for Kahin To Hoga^[1]
  • Cezanne Khan & Shweta Tiwari - Kasautii Zindagii Kay as Anurag Basu and Prerna Sharma
  • Hiten Tejwani & Gauri Pradhan Tejwani - Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi as Karan and Nandini
  • Juhi Parmar & Hussain Kuwajerwala - Kumkum as Kumkum and Sumit Wadhawa
• 2005
  Eijaz Khan & Anita Hassanandani- Kkavyanjali as Kkavya Nanda and Anjali Salve^{[2] [3]}
  • Ronit Roy & Shweta Tiwari - Kasautii Zindagii Kay as Rishab Bajaj and Prerna Bajaj
  • Hiten Tejwani & Gauri Pradhan Tejwani - Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi as Karan and Nandini
  • Juhi Parmar & Hussain Kuwajerwala - Kumkum as Kumkum and Sumit Wadhawa
  • Rajeev Khandelwal & Aamna Shariff - Kahin To Hoga as Sujal Garewal and Kashish Garewal
• 2006
  Ram Kapoor & Prachi Desai for Kasamh Se as Jai Walia and Bani Dixit^{[4] [5]}
• 2007
  Sharad Malhotra & Divyanka Tripathi forBanoo Main Teri Dulhann as Sagar Pratap Singh and Vidya Pratap Singh^{[6] [7]}
  • Cezanne Khan & Shweta Tiwari - Kasautii Zindagii Kay as Anurag Basu and Prerna Bajaj
  • Hiten Tejwani & Gauri Pradhan Tejwani - Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi as Karan and Nandini
  • Juhi Parmar & Hussain Kuwajerwala - Kumkum as Kumkum and Sumit Wadhawa
  • Ram Kapoor & Prachi Desai - Kasamh Se as Jai Udai Walia and Bani Nishikant
• 2008
  Not Awarded
• 2009
  Not Awarded

2010-2019

• 2010
  Not Awarded
• 2011
  No Award
• 2012
  Barun Sobti & Sanaya Irani for Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? as Arnav Singh Raizada and Khushi Kumari Gupta^[8]
  • Sushant Singh Rajput & Ankita Lokhande- Pavitra Rishta Manav Deshmukh & Archana Deshmukh
  • Samir Soni & Kirti Nagpure- Parichay—Nayee Zindagi Kay Sapno Ka as Kunal Chopra & Siddhi Chopra
  • Anas Rashid & Deepika Singh- Diya Aur Baati Hum as Sooraj Rathi & Sandhya Rathi
  • Ram Kapoor & Saakshi Tanwar- Bade Acche Lagte Hain as Ram Kapoor & Priya Kapoor
  • Gurmeet Choudhary & Drashti Dhami- Geet - Hui Sabse Parayi as Maan Singh Khurana & Geet Khurana
• 2013
  Vivian Dsena & Drashti Dhami - Madhubala - Ek Ishq Ek Junoon as Rishabh Kundra and Madhubala Kundra^[9]
  • Rithvik Dhanjani & Asha Negi- Pavitra Rishta Arjun Kirlodskar & Purvi Kirlodskar
  • Anas Rashid & Deepika Singh- Diya Aur Baati Hum as Sooraj Rathi & Sandhya Rathi
  • Ram Kapoor & Saakshi Tanwar- Bade Acche Lagte Hain as Ram Kapoor & Priya Kapoor
  • Karan Singh Grover & Surbhi Jyoti- Qubool Hai as Asad Ahmed Khan & Zoya Farooki
  • Gurmeet Choudhary & Kratika Sengar- Punar Vivah as Yash Scindia & Aarti Scindia
• 2014
  Karan Patel & Divyanka Tripathi - Yeh Hai Mohabbatein as Raman Kumar Bhalla and Dr Ishita Iyer Bhalla & Nakuul Mehta & Disha Parmar - Pyaar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyaara Pyaara as Aditya Kumar and Pankhuri Aditya Kumar
  • Vivian Dsena & Drashti Dhami - Madhubala - Ek Ishq Ek Junoon as Rishabh Kundra and Madhubala Kundra
  • Anas Rashid & Deepika Singh- Diya Aur Baati Hum as Sooraj Rathi & Sandhya Rathi
  • Gautam Rode & Jennifer Winget - Saraswatichandra as Saras and Kumud
  • Rajat Tokas & Paridhi Sharma - Jodha Akbar as Akbar and Jodha
  • Ashish Sharma & Sanaya Irani - Rang Rasiya as Rudra & Parvati
• 2015
  Karan Patel & Divyanka Tripathi - Yeh Hai Mohabbatein as Raman Kumar Bhalla and Dr Ishita Iyer Bhalla and Shabbir Ahluwalia & Sriti Jha - Kumkum Bhagya as Abhishek Mehra and Pragya Arora
  • Ravi Dubey & Nia Sharma- Jamai Raja as Siddharth Khurana & Roshni Khurana
  • Vishal Aditya Singh & Shivangi Joshi- Begusarai as Lakhan Bhushan Thakur & Poonam Lakhan Thakur
  • Shakti Arora & Radhika Madan- Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi as Ranveer Vaghela & Ishani Vaghela
  • Rajeev Khandelwal & Kritika Kamra- Reporters as Kabir Sharma & Ananya Kashyap
  • Apurva Agnihotri & Sonali Bendre- Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Ye as Vikram Ahuja & Shobha Sachdev
  • Anas Rashid & Deepika Singh as Sooraj Rathi & Sandhya Rathi for Diya Aur Baati Hum
  • Parth Samthaan & Niti Taylor as Manik Malhotra & Nandini Murthy for Kaisi Yeh Yaariaan
• 2019
  Parth Samthaan & Erica Fernandes as Anurag Basu & Prerna Sharma for Kasautii Zindagii Kay
  • Harshad Chopda & Jennifer Winget as Aditya Hooda & Zoya Siddiqui for Bepannah
  • Surbhi Chandna & Nakuul Mehta as Annika Trivedi & Shivaay Singh Oberoi for Ishqbaaaz
  • Shraddha Arya & Dheeraj Dhoopar as Preeta Arora & Karan Luthra for Kundali Bhagya
  • Randeep Rai & Ashi Singh as Sameer Maheshwari & Naina Agarwal for Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai
  • Mohsin Khan & Shivangi Joshi as Kartik Goenka & Naira Singhania for Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai
  • Pearl V Puri & Surbhi Jyoti as Mahir Sehgal & Bela Sehgal for Naagin 3
  • Zain Imam & Aditi Rathore as Neil Khanna & Avni Ayesha for Naamkarann
  • Rubina Dilaik & Vivian Dsena as Soumya Singh & Harman Singh for Shakti - Astitva Ke Ehsaas Ki
  • Divyanka Tripathi & Karan Patel as Ishita Bhalla & Raman Bhalla for Yeh Hai Mohabbatein
  • Adnan Khan & Eisha Singh as Kabeer Ahmed & Zara Siddiqui for Ishq Subhan Allah
  • Vijayendra Kumeria & Meera Deosthale as Suraj Rajvanshi & Chakor Rajvanshi for Udaan
  • Shabbir Ahluwalia & Sriti Jha as Abhishek Mehra & Pragya Mehra for Kumkum Bhagya
  • Nishant Singh Malkani & Kanika Mann as Akshat Jindal & Guddan Jindal for Guddan Tumse Na Ho Payega
  • Sumedh Mudgalkar & Mallika Singh for Radhakrishn

2020-present

• 2023
  Gaurav Khanna & Rupali Ganguly as Anuj Kapadia & Anupama Kapadia for Anupamaa^[10]
  • Harshad Chopda & Pranali Rathod as Abhimanyu Birla & Akshara Goenka for Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai
  • Kanwar Dhillon & Alice Kaushik as Shiva Pandya & Raavi Narang Pandya for Pandya Store
  • Ankit Gupta & Priyanka Choudhary as Fateh Virk & Tejo Sandhu Virk for Udaariyaan
  • Fahmaan Khan & Sumbul Touqeer as Aryan Singh Rathore & Imlie Singh Rathore for Imlie
  • Nakuul Mehta & Disha Parmar as Ram Kapoor & Priya Sood Kapoor for Bade Achhe Lagte Hain 2
  • Shakti Arora & Shraddha Arya as Karan Luthra & Preeta Arora Luthra for Kundali Bhagya
  • Krishna Kaul & Mugdha Chaphekar as Ranbir Kohli & Prachi Arora Kohli for Kumkum Bhagya
  • Rohit Suchanti & Aishwarya Khare as Rishi Oberoi & Lakshmi Bajwa for Bhagya Lakshmi
  • Shagun Pandey & Ashi Singh as Meet Ahlawat & Meet Hooda Ahlawat for

Jury awards

• 2019
  Sumedh Mudgalkar & Mallika Singh as Krishna & Radha for RadhaKrishn

Notes and References

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6. News: Telly awards 2007 Popular Awards winners. 2013-12-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20120722173647/http://tellyawards.indiantelevision.com/y2k7/winners-list.htm. 2012-07-22. dead.
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10. Web site: Indian Telly Awards 2023 Complete Winners List . 2023-04-26 . www.indiantellyawards.com.