List of Indian film music directors
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n films are musicals, and their music director
Music director
A music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the co-ordinator of the musical ensembles in a university or college , the head bandmaster of a military band, the head...
s are among the best known musicians in India. Music directors are typically both composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
s and arrangers
Arrangement
The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
.
See the article on filmi
Filmi
Filmi is Indian popular music as written and performed for Indian cinema. Music directors make up the main body of composers; the songs are performed by playback singers and it makes up 72% of the music sales in India....
music.
Notable directors include:
| Music Director | Language | |
|---|---|---|
| A. R. Rahman A. R. Rahman Allah Rakha Rahman is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and philanthropist. Described as the world's most prominent and prolific film composer by Time, his works are notable for integrating eastern classical music with electronic music sounds, world music genres and... |
Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam | |
| Aadesh Shrivastava Aadesh Shrivastava Aadesh Shrivastava is an Indian composer and singer. Over the course of his career, he has composed the music for over 100 Hindi films. His wife Vijeta Pandit is a former Bollywood actress and the sister of the composer duo Jatin Lalit... |
Hindi | |
| Adnan Sami Adnan Sami Adnan Sami is a British-born Pakistani-Indian- Canadian singer, musician, pianist, actor and composer of Pakistani origin. He currently holds Canadian citizenship and works and lives in Mumbai, India... |
Hindi | |
| Ajay-Atul | Marathi, Hindi | |
| Amit Trivedi Amit Trivedi Amit Trivedi is an Indian film composer, musician, singer and lyricist, working in Bollywood. After working as a theater and jingle composer and composing for non-film albums, he debuted as a film composer in the 2008 Hindi film Aamir, and shot to fame in the Hindi film music scene with his... |
Hindi | |
| Anand Raj Anand Anand Raj Anand Anand Raj Anand is an Indian music director, composer, lyricist and playback singer in the Hindi film industry.-Early life:Anand was born in Delhi to a family of jewellers... |
Hindi | |
| Anand-Milind Anand-Milind Anand and Milind are an Indian music directors duo consisting of Anand Shrivastav and his younger brother Milind. They have composed music for over 200 Bollywood films and are the sons of 60s music director, Chitragupta.-Career:... |
Hindi | |
| Anand Sharavan | Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam | |
| Anil Biswas Anil Biswas (composer) Anil Biswas was a famous Indian film music composer from 1935 to 1965, who apart from being one of pioneers of playback singing, is also credited for the first Indian orchestra of twelve pieces and introducing orchestral music and full-blooded choral effects, into Indian cinema... |
Hindi | |
| Anu Malik Anu Malik Anu Malik , born Anwar Sardaar Malik, is a famous music director in the Hindi film industry. Son of veteran music director Sardar Malek, Anu Malik made his debut as a music composer in the year 1977. After a considerable period of struggle, the 90's welcomed Anu with hits like 'Phir Teri Kahani... |
Hindi | |
| Baba Sehgal Baba Sehgal Baba Sehgal, a Khatri Sikh, is an Indian rapper and actor. Brought up in Lucknow, he was famous in the mid 1990s. He is credited as the first Indian rapper to jump on the Indipop bandwagon, and released an album which got frequent airplay on MTV India... |
Hindi | |
| Bappi Lahiri Bappi Lahiri Bappi Lahiri or Alokesh Lahiri , born 27 November 1952, is a music director in the Hindi film industry. He pioneered the use of disco music in Indian cinema and sang some of his own compositions. He was popular in the 1980s with films like Disco Dancer, Namak Halaal and Sharaabi among others.-Early... |
Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu | |
| Berny Ignatius | Malayalam | |
| Bharathwaj Bharathwaj Bharathwaj is a Tamil film composer. He has since scored music in languages including Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. trained in Hindustani, Western and Carnatic music.He is a recipient of Kalaimamani Award for the year 2008 from Tamil Nadu Government... |
Tamil, Telugu | |
| Bhaskar Chandavarkar Bhaskar Chandavarkar Bhaskar Chandavarkar was an Indian sitar player, academic and film and theatre composer who worked with directors of Indian cinema, in various languages including Marathi, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam, Mrinal Sen, Girish Karnad, Aparna Sen and Amol Palekar and was known for his blending of Indian... |
Hindi | |
| Bhavatharini Bhavatharini Bhavatharani is an Indian Tamil singer and music director. She is the daughter of film composer Ilaiyaraaja and her brothers are the noted film composers Karthik Raja and Yuvan Shankar Raja and has mostly sung songs under her father and her brothers' direction... |
Tamil, Hindi | |
| Bhupen Hazarika Bhupen Hazarika Bhupen Hazarika was an Indian lyricist, musician, singer, poet and film-maker from Assam. His songs,written and sung mainly in Assamese by the legend himself, are infused with humanity and universalism, and have been translated and sung in many languages, most notable being Bengali ,Hindi and... |
Hindi, Assamese | |
| C. Aswath C. Aswath C. Aswath was an Indian music composer and exponent of Bhavageete in the Kannada language. He was also a singer, and had sung many of his own compositions. He was credited with singing Bhavageete songs and making sure that they reached the common man. He died on 29 December 2009 on his 70th... |
Kannada | |
| C. Ramchandra C. Ramchandra Ramchandra Narhar Chitalkar was a renowned music composer in the movie industry of India. In the composer's role, he mostly used the name C. Ramachandra, though he also used the names Annasaheb , Ram Chitalkar Ramchandra Narhar Chitalkar(Marathi: रामचंद्र नरहर चितळकर /सी.रामचंद्र ) (1918–1982) was... |
Hindi | |
| Chakravarthy | Kannada, Telugu | |
| Chitragupta Chitragupta Chitragupta is a Hindu god assigned with the task of keeping complete records of actions of human beings on the earth. Upon their death, Chitragupta has the task of deciding heaven or the hell for the humans, depending on their actions on the earth... |
Hindi | |
| Colonial Cousins Colonial Cousins Colonial Cousins is a band formed by Indian duo composed of singer Hariharan and singer-composer Leslie Lewis. They also have a largely successful career as solo artists as well. Their unique brand of music fused Indian and Western musical genres instantly won the hearts of young and old alike... |
Hindi, Tamil | |
| Dabboo Malik | Hindi | |
| Dakshinamurthy Dakshinamurthy Dakshinamurthy or Jnana Dakshinamurti Dakshinamurthy or Jnana Dakshinamurti Dakshinamurthy or Jnana Dakshinamurti(Tamil: தட்சிணாமூர்த்தி, Sanskrit: is an aspect of Shiva as a guru (teacher) of all type of knowledge, particularly the jnana. This aspect of Shiva is his personification as the... |
Malayalam, Tamil | |
| Datta Naik | Hindi | |
| Deepak Dev Deepak Dev Deepak Devraj, better known as Deepak Dev is an Indian music composer, best known for his compositions in Malayalam cinema, with films such as Chronic Bachelor, Symphony, Udayananu Tharam, Naran, and Puthiya Mukham.-Early years:... |
Malayalam, Tamil | |
| Devi Sri Prasad Devi Sri Prasad Devi Sri Prasad is a music composer and playback singer in Telugu and Tamil films. His soundtracks have been dubbed or remade in several other languages as well.- Awards :... |
Telugu, Tamil, Hindi | |
| Deva Deva (music director) Deva is an Indian film composer and singer. He has composed songs and provided background music for Tamil films in a career spanning about 20 years. Many know his gaana songs, written mostly using Madras Tamil. He is known as the "Father of Gaana Genre" in the Tamil film industry.Deva has composed... |
Tamil,Hindi | |
| Devan Ekambaram Devan Ekambaram Devan Ekambaram or Devan is an Indian playback singer, actor and a Film composer. He began his career as a playback singer in Tamil films and later branched out to many other south Indian languages as well like Telugu, Kannada and has so far sung over 150 songs.-Education:Devan pursued his higher... |
Tamil | |
| Dharan Dharan (music director) Dharan is an Indian music composer, who mainly produces film scores and soundtracks in the Tamil film industry. He rose to fame with Parijatham, featuring the hit single "Unnai Kandene", which marked his debut as a film score composer.-Early life:... |
Tamil | |
| Dhina Dhina Dhina is an Indian film composer and television series composer from Tamil Nadu, India.-Biography and career:Dhina first worked as an assistant musician under popular composer G. K. Venkatesh, later being engaged by Meastro Ilaiyaraaja as a music conductor. He later became a music director for... |
Tamil | |
| Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen | Hindi | |
| Eshaan Sahney | Hindi , English , Punjabi | |
| G. Devarajan G. Devarajan Paravoor Govindan Devarajan , popularly known as G. Devarajan or Devarajan master, was a noted Malayalam music composer, died on March 15, 2006 in Chennai, at the age of 80.... |
Malayalam, Hindi | |
| G. K. Venkatesh | Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu | |
| G. V. Prakash Kumar G. V. Prakash Kumar G. V. Prakash Kumar is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer and singer. He has mainly scored music for Tamil, while also doing three Telugu films and a Hindi film... |
Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi | |
| Gangai Amaren | Tamil, Telugu, Kannada | |
| Gopi Sundar Gopi Sundar Gopi Sunder is an award winning Indian music programmer, film score composer, musician and singer. He has composed music for more than 5000 ad jingles, programmed music for many major composers and have scored more than ten Malayalam films.... |
Malayalam | |
| Gurukiran Gurukiran Gurukiran or Gurukiran Shetty is a noted music director of the Kannada film industry in India. He started his career as a music director of the Kannada movie "A", directed and acted by Upendra. His music for the movie Upendra further consolidated his position in Kannada movie industry. He is a... |
Kannada, Telugu | |
| Hamsalekha Hamsalekha Hamsalekha is a music director and lyricist in the Kannada film industry. He also writes screenplays and dialogues for movies. He has composed music for over 300 feature films and has written lyrics for 300-odd feature films. He has also composed for Tamil and Telugu films... |
Kannada, Tamil, Telugu | |
| Harris Jayaraj Harris Jayaraj Harris Jayaraj is an Indian film composer. He has written scores and soundtracks for Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films.- Early life :Harris Jayaraj hails from a pious Christian Nadar family and was born and brought up in Chennai. Harris studied at Krishnaswamy Matric School, Nungambakam. His father,... |
Tamil, Hindi, Telugu | |
| Hemant Kumar | Hindi | |
| Himesh Reshammiya Himesh Reshammiya Himesh Reshammiya is an Indian music director, composer, singer and actor.-Music and film career:Himesh Reshammiya was born in Bhavnagar, Gujarat to Vipin Reshammiya and Madhu Reshammiya. He had his first success as a music director of the 2003 film, Tere Naam... |
Hindi, Tamil | |
| Hridaynath Mangeshkar | Marathi, Hindi | |
| Ilayaraja | Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada, English, Marathi | |
| Imman | Tamil, Telugu | |
| Issac Thomas | Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada | |
| Ismail Darbar Ismail Darbar Ismail Darbar is an Indian composer and violinist, a popular name in Bollywood.-Career:Ismail Darbar is from Surat, Gujarat. He worked for several years as a session violinist for leading music directors Laxmikant Pyarelal, Kalyanji Anandji, Bappi Lahiri, Rajesh Roshan, Anand-Milind,... |
Hindi | |
| J. V. Raghavulu J. V. Raghavulu Jetti Veera Raghavulu, better known as J. V. Raghavulu was an eminent Indian Music director and Playback singer. He started as playback singer and became a music director after the sudden death of Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao. His debut was Drohi of Suresh Productions... |
Telugu | |
| Jaikeey | Tamil | |
| James Vasanthan James Vasanthan James Vasanthan is a popular Indian television anchor and a film music composer. For more than a decade, he worked as an anchor in popular Tamil satellite television channels like Sun TV, Vijay TV and Makkal TV before turning into a film music composer in the Tamil Film Industry.-Biography:James... |
Tamil | |
| Jassie Gift Jassie Gift Jassie Gift is a Malayalam film music composer and singer from Thiruvananthapuram, India. He became famous after his song "Lajjavathiye" in the film 4 the people.-Biography:... |
Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada | |
| Jatin-Lalit | Hindi, Telugu | |
| Johnson Johnson (composer) Johnson was an Indian film score composer and music director who has given music to some of the most important motion pictures of Malayalam cinema, including those for Namukku Parkkan Munthiri Thoppukal, Oru Minnaminunginte Nurunguvettam, Vadakkunokkiyantram, Perumthachan, Amaram, Njan... |
Malayalam, Tamil | |
| Joshua Sridhar Joshua Sridhar Joshua Sridhar is a composer of film scores and soundtracks in Indian cinema. His film debut was Kaadhal, a Tamil film.- Early life :Born in Chennai on March 9, 1974 to Saravanan and Rajalakshmi. Studied at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Rajaji Vidyashram in Chennai from 1980 to 1990... |
Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu | |
| K. Kalyan K. Kalyan K. Kalyan is an Indian lyricist and music director predominantly working in Kannada cinema. He has won several prestigious awards and is popularly called as Love Poet for his inspiring lyrics on romance theme. He is considered one of the leading lyricists and musicians of Kannada cinema.-Personal... |
Kannada | |
| K V Mahadevan K. V. Mahadevan Krishnankoil Venkatachalam Mahadevan was a South Indian music composer.-Career:K.V.Mahadevan was born in Tamil Iyer family in 1918 in Krishnancoil, Kanyakumari district. A contemporary of M. S. Viswanathan, T. K. Ramamoorthy, KVM has scored music for over 600 films, spanning four decades, after... |
Tamil, Telugu | |
| Kailash-Naresh-Paresh | Hindi | |
| Kalyanji Anandji Kalyanji Anandji Kalyanji Anandji is a name used by Indian composer duo known for its work on Hindi film soundtracks, particularly action potboilers in the 1970s. The name comes from first names of the two Gujarati brothers that formed the duo, Kalyanji Virji Shah and Anandji Virji Shah... |
Hindi | |
| Karthik Karthik (singer) Karthik is an Indian playback singer.Karthik started his professional singing career as a backing vocalist and has since been a playback singer in Tamil cinema while also single in other Indian languages for various composers... |
Tamil | |
| Karthik Raja Karthik Raja Karthik Raja is a Tamil musician from Chennai, India. He made his debut as music composer in the Tamil film Alexander.-Personal life:Karthik Raja is the eldest son of musician Ilaiyaraaja and Jeeva. His brother Yuvan Shankar Raja and sister Bhavatharini, who are also Kollywood music directors and... |
Tamil, Hindi, Kannada | |
| Khayyam Khayyam Omar Khayyam was a Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher and astronomer.Omar Khayyam or Khayyam or may also refer to:* Khayyam, Iran* Mohammed Zahur Khayyam , commonly credited as 'Khayaam', Indian music composer... |
Hindi | |
| Koti | Telugu | |
| Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu (alias Kedarnath Bhattacharya , born in Kolkata, is a leading Indian Bollywood playback singer. He was awarded the Filmfare Best Male Playback Award over five consecutive years. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2009.... |
Hindi | |
| Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan was an Indian classical music violinist.-Early life:He was born to Sri Ramaswamy Sastri and Smt. Meenakshi at Kunnakudi, a temple town of Lord Murugan in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.His father was a scholar in Sanskrit and Tamil, and a composer and exponent of... |
Tamil | |
| L. Vaidyanathan L. Vaidyanathan Lakshminarayana Vaidyanathan was an acclaimed musicologist, music director and composer, trained in the classical Carnatic music tradition. Vaidyanathan was born to V.Lakshminarayana, and Seethalakshmi, both accomplished musicians; he was also the elder brother of accomplished violinist duo L.... |
Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam | |
| Lalit Pandit | Hindi | |
| Laxmikant Pyarelal Laxmikant Pyarelal Laxmikant-Pyarelal were a popular Indian composer duo, consisting of Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma . They composed music for about 635 Hindi movies from 1963 to 1998, working for almost all notable filmmakers including Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, Feroze Khan, B.R... |
Hindi | |
| Leslie Lewis Leslie Lewis Leslie Lewis is an Indian composer, perhaps best known for his work in Colonial Cousins, a duo composed of Lewis and Hariharan.In 2003 Lewis stated that he felt the public associated him too much with remixes and for that reason he had begun to avoid remixes and instead concentrate on his original... |
Hindi | |
| M. Jayachandran M. Jayachandran M. Jayachandran is a film score composer, singer and musician in the Malayalam film industry. He has won Kerala State Film Awards for best music director in 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2010, maximum awards won by any music director. He also won the state award for best male singer in 2005... |
Malayalam, Tamil | |
| M. Ranga Rao | Kannada | |
| M. G. Radhakrishnan M. G. Radhakrishnan M. G. Radhakrishnan was a senior music director and Carnatic vocalist from Kerala. He is highly regarded as one of the most successful light music and film music composer in Malayalam.- Personal life :M. G... |
Malayalam, Tamil | |
| M. G. Sreekumar M. G. Sreekumar M. G. Sreekumar is a two-time National Award-winning Indian playback singer and music director who works in Malayalam cinema. With a career of over 25 years, he is one of the prominent male singers in the Malayalam film industry. He is known for matching voice with Malayalam actor Mohanlal. He has... |
Malayalam, Tamil | |
| M. M. Keeravani/M. M. Kreem M. M. Kreem Koduri Maragatha Mani Keeravaani, better known as M. M. Keeravaani Koduri Maragatha Mani Keeravaani, better known as M. M. Keeravaani Koduri Maragatha Mani Keeravaani, better known as M. M. Keeravaani (Telugu: ఎం.ఎం.కీరవాణి or under the alias Maragatha Mani, M. M. Kreem (Hindi: M. M... /Maragathamani |
Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam | |
| M. M. Sreelekha | Telugu | |
| M S Viswanathan M. S. Viswanathan Manayangath Subramanian Viswanathan , is a Tamil music director. He is popularly known as "Mellisai Mannar" . His major works over the past five decades have been in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films... |
Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu | |
| Madan Mohan | Hindi | |
| Mani Sharma Mani Sharma Mani Sharma Yanamandra is a music director known for his works in Tollywood. He has composed music for over 140 films. He is popularly known as "Swara Brahma" for his contributions to music in Tollywood. Mani Sharma started his career as a music director in 1998. Before that Sharma used to work... |
Telugu, Tamil | |
| Manikanth Kadri Manikanth Kadri Manikanth Kadri is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer and singer. He has predominantly scored music for Kannada as well as several Telugu films. He is the son of legendary saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath.-Career:... |
Kannada, Tamil | |
| Mano Murthy Mano Murthy Mano Murthy is a leading musician and composer in the Kannada Film Industry. Although his compositions in his earlier films were also successful, he shot to fame with Mungaru Male, one of the biggest hits in Kannada industry. Before moving onto becoming a composer, he was an entrepreneur, having... |
Kannada | |
| Mithoon Sharma | Hindi | |
| Monty Sharma Monty Sharma Monty Sharma is a music composer from India scoring music for Bollywood.-Early life:Monty Sharma was born on 17 April 1970 in Mumbai. Monty started learning music at the age of five. He had the opportunity to learn under the guidance of his grand father Pandit Ram Prasad Sharma. Monty is nephew of... |
Hindi | |
| Naushad Naushad Naushad Ali was an Indian musician. He was one of the foremost music directors for Bollywood films, and is particularly known for popularizing the use of classical music in films.His first film as an independent music director was Prem Nagar in 1940... |
Hindi | |
| Nikhil-Vinay | Hindi | |
| Neyant Sahney | Hindi | |
| Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | Hindi | |
| O.P. Nayyar | Hindi | |
| Ouseppachan Ouseppachan Ousephachan is a National Award, Filmfare Award and Kerala State Film Award-winning Indian music director who sets scores for Malayalam films. He is one of the most sought-after musicians in the Malayalam film industry.-Biography:... |
Malayalam, Tamil | |
| Pankaj Mullick Pankaj Mullick Pankaj Mullick, also known as Pankaj Kumar Mullick was a Bengali Indian music director, who was a pioneer of film music in Bengali cinema and Hindi cinema at the advent of playback singing, as well as an early exponent of Rabindra Sangeet.He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1970, followed by the... |
Hindi | |
| Prashant Pillai Prashant Pillai Prashant Pillai is a music producer and composer from India. His music style has diverse influences and elements of jazz, electronica, funk, world music and more... |
Hindi, Malayalam | |
| Pravin Mani Pravin Mani Pravin Mani is a musician who has been credited as singer and as music composer in Tamil and Telugu films in India. He has been a long term associate with noted music director, A. R. Rahman, with recent collaborations in Enthiran... |
Tamil, Telugu, Hindi | |
| Premji Amaran | Tamil | |
| Pritam Chakraborty Pritam Pritam Chakraborty , better known as Pritam is a music director and composer from Kolkata who currently works in Bollywood, Mumbai.- Early life :... |
Hindi | |
| R.D. Burman | Hindi | |
| R. P. Patnaik R. P. Patnaik R. P. Patnaik[Telugu] is a music director and playback singer in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films. He has written music for Jayam, Santosham, and Nijam... |
Telugu, Kannada, Tamil | |
| Rahul Raj Rahul Raj Rahul Raj can refer to:* Rahul Raj , Indian composer* Rahul Raj encounter, in 2008... |
Telugu, Malayalam | |
| Raj-Koti Raj-Koti Raj-Koti is a music composer duo of Telugu movies, active during 1980s and 1990s. It consisted of Saluri Koteswara Rao son of veteran music director Saluri Rajeswara Rao and Thotakura Somaraju son of veteran music director T. V. Raju. Later, the two split up and started composing independently... |
Telugu, Tamil, Kannada | |
| Rajan-Nagendra Rajan-Nagendra Rajan and Nagendra were musicians who were prominent composer of film music in Kannada cinema during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.Rajan was born in Shivarampet of Mysore in a middle-class family... |
Kannada, Telugu | |
| Rajesh Ramnath | Kannada | |
| Rajesh Roshan Rajesh Roshan Rajesh Roshan is a Hindi cinema music composer.-Personal life:Rajesh Roshan is the son of Hindi film composer Roshan and younger brother of film director and actor Rakesh Roshan... |
Hindi | |
| Ram Lakshman Ram Lakshman Ram Lakshman is a Tamil language film starring Kamal Haasan in the lead role of the protagonist.-References: The story is about the relationship between Ram and Lakshman .... |
Hindi | |
| Ramana Gogula Ramana Gogula Ramana Kumar Gogula is a music director in Telugu films. He formed his own rock-and-roll band in Vizag at the age of 17. Since then, he has traveled around the world as a software professional and music director. His most famous albums are the musical scores to the movies Thammudu,adavilo anna,... |
Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi | |
| Ramesh Sippy Ramesh Sippy Ramesh Sippy is an Indian film director, probably best-known for directing the popular and critically acclaimed film Sholay .... |
Hindi | |
| Ramesh Naidu Ramesh Naidu Pasupuleti Ramesh Naidu was a South Indian music director. His major works were in Telugu films in the 1970s and 1980s. The music he did for the film Megha Sandesham is consideredas his best score.-Biography:... |
Telugu | |
| Ranjith Barot | Hindi | |
| Raveendran Raveendran M. Raveendran , fondly called as "Raveendran Master" was a popular South Indian music composer and Playback singer from Kerala. He was always referred to as the aristocratic music director of Malayalam who had a distinctive style of his own. He composed more than 150 films primarily for the... |
Malayalam, Tamil | |
| Ravindra Jain Ravindra Jain Ravindra Jain is an Indian music composer and lyricist. He won the Filmfare Best Music Director Award in 1985.-Early life:... |
Hindi | |
| Roop Kumar Rathod Roop Kumar Rathod -Personal life:Roopkumar is the son of the late Pandit Chaturbhuj Rathod, the classical luminary – an exponent of the rare and arguably the oldest style of singing i.e. Dhrupad. He belonged to the “Aditya Gharana of Jamnagar”. Pandit Rathod has trained and groomed many well known names like... |
Hindi | |
| S.D. Burman | Hindi | |
| S. P. Balasubramanyam | Tamil, Telugu, Kannada | |
| S. P. Venkatesh S. P. Venkatesh S. P. Venkatesh is a music director and composer popular for his works in the Malayalam film industry. He has also scored for some Bollywood and Bengali films. S. P. Venkatesh who is a Tamilian, was introduced into the Malayalam film industry by Dennis Joseph. The major break for S. P. Venkatesh... |
Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam | |
| Sadhu Kokila Sadhu Kokila Sadhu Kokila also known as Kokila Sadhu his original name is "Sahaya Sheelan / Sagaya Sheelan", is an Indian actor, film and music director in the Kannada film industry. As an actor, he performs mainly comedy roles. He has acted in movies such as Sshh, Rakta Kanneeru, which he also directed, and... |
Kannada | |
| Sagar S | Kannada,Tamil | |
| Salil Chowdhury Salil Chowdhury Salil Chowdhury was an Indian music composer. He mainly composed for Bengali, Hindi, and Malayalam films. He was also a poet and a playwright. He is affectionately called Salilda by all his admirers.... |
Hindi | |
| Sajid-Wajid | Hindi | |
| Sandesh Shandilya Sandesh Shandilya Sandesh Shandilya is an Indian film composer, musician, singer, working in Bollywood, most known for his work in films like Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham , Chameli, Road, Uff Kya Jadoo Mohabbat Hai and Socha Na Tha.... |
Hindi | |
| Sandeep Chowta Sandeep Chowta Sandeep Chowta is an Indian Bollywood and Tollywood music director and head of Columbia Records in India. He has also sung some of his songs.In 2003, he produced an anti substance abuse documentary, titled Dead End, that was entered into numerous film festivals and was government acclaimed... |
Hindi | |
| Sanjay Leela Bhansali Sanjay Leela Bhansali Sanjay Leela Bhansali is an Indian film director. He is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India... |
Hindi | |
| Sanjeev Darshan Sanjeev Darshan Sanjeev-Darshan is a music director duo in the Bollywood film industry of India. The duo derives its name from the first names of its two principals, Sanjeev Rathod and Darshan Rathod... |
Hindi | |
| Sankalp Srivastava | Hindi, Punjabi | |
| Sankar Ganesh Sankar Ganesh Shankar Ganesh are an Indian music director duo who have worked in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada movies for around 40 years.They started their career as assistants working for Tamil music producers M. S. Viswanathan and T. K. Ramamoorthy. Their first release was Magaraasi in 1964... |
Tamil, Kannada, Telugu | |
| Satyam | Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu | |
| Selvaganesh | Tamil, Kannada | |
| Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy are an Indian musical trio consisting of Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa. Record producers, musicians and multi-instrumentalists, they have composed music for over fifty soundtrack across four languages... |
Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, English | |
| Shankar-Jaikishan | Hindi | |
| Shankar Sahney | Hindi , Punjabi , English | |
| Shantanu Moitra Shantanu Moitra Shantanu Moitra is an Indian music director who has composed music for the Hindi film industry, and is most known for his score in films Parineeta , Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi , "Lage Raho Munnabhai" and 3 Idiots , and private albums, Mann ke Manjeere and Ab ke Saawan sung by Shubha Mudgal.-Early... |
Bengali, Hindi | |
| Sharreth Sharreth Sujith Vasudevan I, better known by his stage name Sharreth , is a music director and singer.He began by composing film scores mainly for Malayalam films, but has gone on to compose for Tamil and Telugu films too. Most recently, he scored the music for the Tamil-Telugu bilingual 180.He won the... |
Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu | |
| Malayalam, Tamil | Shruti Hassan | Tamil, Hindi, Telugu |
| Sirpy | Tamil | |
| Srinivas Srinivas (singer) Srinivas 'Srini' is an award winning playback singer who has sung over 2000 songs in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. He is also a music composer.-Early life:... |
Tamil | |
| Sohail Sen Sohail Sen Sohail Sen is an Indian film composer, musician and singer who works in Bollywood. He debuted as a film composer with the Hindi film Sirf , which went majorlyunnoticed... |
Hindi | |
| Srikanth Deva Srikanth Deva Srikanth Deva is a music director of Tamil films. He made his debut as music director in the Tamil movie Doubles in 2000. He is the son of Tamil music director Deva.-Biography:... |
Tamil | |
| Sukhwinder Singh Sukhwinder Singh Sukhwinder Singh, Born as Sukhi Singh Lubana is an Indian singer best known for working as Bollywood playback artist. Singh is famous for singing "Chaiyya Chaiyya" for which he won the Best Male Playback Award at the 1999 Filmfare Awards. The song, from Mani Ratnam's 1998 film Dil Se, was composed... |
Hindi | |
| Sundar C. Babu | Tamil, Telugu | |
| Suresh Peters Suresh Peters Suresh Peters is a music director and playback rapper/singer for films in India whose notable songs include Style from the film Sivaji: The Boss. Peters received his first break as a music director through the Malayalam movie Punjabi House in which he composed both melodies and folk songs... |
Malayalam, Tamil | |
| T. G. Lingappa T. G. Lingappa T. Govindarajulu Lingappa was a noted music director who had scored music for Tamil, Kannada and Telugu movies. He is the son of T. Govindarajulu Naidu who is also a famous film music director who had a very old beginning in the Tamil film industry.-Early Life:T.G. Lingappa is the second son had... |
Kannada, Tamil, Telugu | |
| T. K. Ramamoorthy T. K. Ramamoorthy T. K. Ramamurthy, Tiruchirapalli Krishnaswamy Ramamurthy, is a popular South Indian Tamil music composer and violinist. He hails from the from a family of violinists. He is popularly known as Mellisai Mannar . His major works are in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films. Along with M. S... |
Tamil, Telugu | |
| Thaman Thaman Thaman is an Indian music composer who works for Telugu and Tamil films. Despite debuting his film career as an actor in Shankar's Boys, he has since established himself as a prominent music director in the South Indian film industries.... |
Tamil, Telugu | |
| Thomas Rathnam | Tamil , Kannada , English , Hindi , Telugu , Malayalam | |
| Upendra Kumar | Kannada | |
| Uttam Singh Uttam Singh Uttam Singh is an Indian musician. He has worked as a violinist, music arranger and music director for many Bollywood films.-Childhood:... |
Hindi, Tamil | |
| V. Harikrishna V. Harikrishna Hari Krishna is a music director and singer in the Kannada film industry and has won 3 consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Music for Gaalipata in 2008, Raaj The Showman in 2009 and Jackie in 2010.-Career:... |
Kannada, Telugu | |
| V Kumar | Tamil | |
| V. Manohar | Kannada | |
| V. Ravichandran V. Ravichandran V. Ravichandran is an actor, director, producer, music director, Editor and lyricist in the Kannada film industry. He is the son of film producer N. Veeraswamy. As producer, Ravichandran continues to run his father's production house, Sri Eswari Productions... |
Kannada | |
| Vidyasagar Vidyasagar (music director) Vidyasagar is an Award-Winning Indian film music director and music composer in the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi film industry. He is very popular in South Indian music industry and best known for his soulful melodies. His fast numbers to many films have earned him much fame too. He has... |
Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi | |
| Vijay Antony Vijay Antony -Biography and career:Antony first worked as a sound engineer, later becoming a music director. In 1998 he studied at Loyola College, Chennai after which he founded his own studio, 'Audiophiles', composing and sound engineering for TV jingles and documentaries. The soundtrack of the film Sukran,... |
Tamil, Telugu | |
| Vijaya Bhaskar Vijaya Bhaskar Vijaya Bhaskar was a Kannada Music director. He was known for his songs composed in association with Puttanna Kanagal.-Career:... |
Kannada | |
| Viju Shah Viju Shah Viju Shah is a music director of Hindi cinema. He is the son of music director Kalyanji Virji Shah of composer duo Kalyanji Anandji... |
Hindi | |
| Vishal Bhardwaj Vishal Bhardwaj Vishal Bhardwaj is an Indian film director, writer, screenwriter, music composer and playback singer.-Early life:Bhardwaj was born in Bijnor but raised in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh to Satya Bhardwaj, a homemaker, and Ram Bhardwaj, a popular poet and lyricist. His father was a government employee and... |
Hindi | |
| Vishal-Shekhar Vishal-Shekhar Vishal-Shekhar are a music directing duo for Hindi films and are among the leading music directors in the industry today... |
Hindi | |
| Vivek Sawhney | Hindi , English , Punjabi , Himachali | |
| Vivek-Ehsaan-Neyant | Hindi ,Punjabi , English | |
| Yuvan Shankar Raja Yuvan Shankar Raja Yuvan Shankar Raja is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer, singer and occasional lyricist. He has predominantly scored music for Tamil as well as several Telugu films. His musical career began in 1996, at age 16, as he composed the film score for Aravindhan... |
Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada | |
| Zakir Hussain Zakir Hussain Zakir Hussain may refer to:* Zakir Hussain , classical tabla player* Zakir Hussain , president of India* Zakir Hussain , Bollywood actor whose films include Sarkar and Johnny Gaddaar... |
Hindi | |
| Zubeen Garg Zubeen Garg Zubeen Garg is a singer and composer from Assam, India, in the Bollywood and Assamese music scene. He plays dhols, guitar, dotora, mandolin, keyboard and various percussion instruments.-Background:... |
Hindi | |