Indian male film score composers

Indian filmmaker and writer (1921–1992)

Indian sitar player (1920–2012)

Indian composer and musician

Indian singer and actor (1929–1987)

Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor, and composer (1951–2024)

Indian singer

Zubeen Garg was an Indian musician, composer, singer, songwriter who primarily worked and sang in the Assamese, Bengali, and Hindi-language films and music industries. He also sang in 40 other languages and dialects, including Bishnupriya Manipuri, Adi, Boro, Dimasa, English, Goalpariya, Gujarati, Kannada, Karbi, Malayalam, Marathi, Mising, Rabha, Garo, Nepali, Bhojpuri, Odia, Sadri, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Tiwa and Urdu.

Indian playback singer (1946–2020)

Indian musician, singer and actor

Indian playback singer

Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet, actor and filmmaker (1926–2011)

Indian music director and singer (born 1960)

Indian singer and composer

Indian bansuri player

Rahul Dev Burman was an Indian music director and singer, who is considered to be one of the greatest and most successful music directors of the Hindi film music industry. From the 1960s to the 1990s, Burman composed musical scores for 331 films, bringing a new level of music ensemble with his compositions. Burman did his major work with legendary singers Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle and Mohammed Rafi. He also worked extensively with lyricists like Majrooh Sultanpuri, Anand Bakshi and Gulzar, with whom he created some of the most memorable numbers in his career. Nicknamed Pancham, he was the only son of the composer Sachin Dev Burman and his Bengali lyricist wife Meera Dev Burman.

Ilaiyaraaja (born Gnanathesigan) is an Indian musician, composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist and playback singer popular for his works in Indian cinema, predominantly in Tamil in addition to Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi films. Regarded as one of the most prolific composers, in a career spanning over forty-nine years, he has composed over 8,600 songs, provided film scores for about 1,523 feature films in nine languages, and performed in over 20,000 concerts. He was one of the earliest Indian film composers to use Western classical music harmonies

Indian writer (1898–1971)

Pritam Chakraborty (; born 14 June 1971), also popularly known mononymously as Pritam, is a National Film Award winning Indian composer. Graduating from FTII in Sound Engineering, he worked as an ad jingle composer, sound designer & theme music composer for TV serials, and later debuted as a co-composer alongside Jeet Gannguli in the 2001 Hindi film Tere Liye.

Indian singer

Indian singer and composer (1906–1975)

Indian composer and guitarist

Indian singer (1920–1989)

Indian pop-rock singer

Indian musician

Indian film director, screenwriter and composer

Salim–Sulaiman are an Indian music composer duo consisting of siblings Salim and Sulaiman Merchant. The duo has composed music predominantly for Hindi films.

Indian music composer

Indian music composer and singer

Indian composer, poet and playwright (1925–1995)

Sajid–Wajid was an Indian Bollywood Hindi film music director duo consisting of brothers Sajid Khan and Wajid Khan, the sons of Sharafat Ali Khan, a tabla player. Wajid Khan, the younger of the two brothers, died on June 1, 2020.

Indian film music composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, and musician

Bengali Indian music composer, playback singer and actor (1905–1978)

Indian singer

Indian composer and singer-songwriter

Amaal Mallik is an Indian music director, composer, and singer who works primarily in Hindi cinema. He made his debut as a film composer with Jai Ho and gained wider recognition with the song "Sooraj Dooba Hain," which achieved commercial success and contributed to his emergence as a notable composer in Hindi Cinema.

Indian composer

Indian singer, songwriter and music composer

Indian musician (1922–1974)

Indian musician (1942–1999)

Indian composer

Indian actor-musician

Indian composer (1903-1981)

Indian singer

Indian composer (1914–2003)

Indian singer

Indian musician

actor, director, producer, music director, stunt director, editor and lyricist

Indian harmonium and tabla player

Indian composer

Jatin–Lalit is an Indian music director duo consisting of brothers Jatin Pandit and Lalit Pandit. They are widely known for their contributions to Hindi cinema during the 1990s and early 2000s. The duo is known for their melodious compositions and has been associated with several hit films. Some of their most famous works include Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Mohabbatein, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, and Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha.

Anand–Milind is an Indian music composer duo consisting of brothers Anand Srivastava and Milind Srivastava. Born to composer Chitragupt, they have composed music for over 200 Bollywood films. The brothers debuted in 1984 with Ab Ayega Mazaa and had their major breakthrough with Qayamat se Qayamat Tak in 1988.

Indian composer (1936–2020)

Mithun Sharma, also known as Mithoon, is an Indian film/music director, lyricist-composer and singer.

Indian singer, film composer, record producer and jazz musician-keyboardist

Indian singer

Indian film composer

Indian composer

Indian actor

Indian film composer and singer