2015 has not been much of a newcomers year, but 2016 definitely promises to be the year of young talent trying their luck at the box office!
From star kids to the freshly brewed talent, here’s a list of all those debut actors which you need to watch out for in the year 2016:
Ritika Singh in Saala Khadoos
Ritika Singh is a national-level kick boxer who is well-versed with mixed martial arts and is a black belt in karate. Bollywood’s ace director and producer Rajkumar Hirani wanted a real boxer to play the role in the sports drama and Ritika was chosen after auditioning about a 100 boxers.
Neha Khan/Rishab Arora/Shivum Patil/Aanchal Munjal in Ghayal Returns
Sunny Deol plays the solid satellite while the quartet of newcomers play his followers. Let’s wait and see if the group can make any impact on the audience!
Navneet Kaur Dhillon in Loveshhuda
Winner Miss World 2013 Navneet makes her debut opposite Girish Taurani in this urban Romcom. She’s chosen a pretty bold avatar for her debut movie.
Gaurav Arora in Vikram Bhatt’s Love Games
This model-turned-actor has two ladies to woo in this film, Patralekha and Tara Alisha Berry and will be shot in Cape Town. Gaurav, as rumours say, is Kriti Sanon’s boyfriend!
Saiyami Kher in Mirzya
She is Tanvi Azmi’s niece and will be seen in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s love legend Mirzya. Mehra has never launched new faces before.
Harshvardhan Kapoor in Mirzya
Anil Kapoor’s son who is being launched by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra in Mirzya is described by the director as “intense, driven, passionate, uni-focused and a perfectionist.”
Mahira Khan in Raees
She is a household name in Pakistan and India because of her striking presence in Pakistani serials, thanks to Zindagi Channel.
Pooja Hegde in Mohenjo Daro
Ashutosh Gowariker’s lavish period piece has this beauty pageant-winner teamed with Hrithik Roshan. Hrithik has never been teamed with a new face before except Amisha Patel in his first film Kaho Na…Pyaar Hai.
Fatima Sana Shaikh/Sanya Malhotra in Dangal
The two unknown ladies get a dream launch as Aamir Khan’s wrestler-daughters Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari.
Sayesha Saigal in Shivaay
Saira Banu’s grand-niece had made her not-so-successful debut in Telugu cinema with Akhil, the film launching Nagarjuna’s younger son. Now she is poised for a Hindi debut opposite Ajay Devgn.
Waluscha de Sousa in Fan
She has a brief and very interesting role opposite Shahrukh Khan in Maneesh Sharma’s Fan.