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The following are notable Indian film music directors:
Music director | Language |
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Aadesh Shrivastava | Hindi, Bengali |
Aby Tom Cyriac | Malayalam |
Abhimann Roy | Kannada, Telugu |
Achu Rajamani | Tamil, Malayalam |
Adnan Sami | Hindi |
Ajay–Atul | Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Sanskrit |
Ajay Srivastava | Bhojpuri |
Amaal Mallik | Hindi, Tamil, Telugu |
Amit Trivedi | Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil |
Anand Raj Anand | Hindi |
Anand–Milind | Hindi |
Anand Modak | Marathi |
Anil Biswas | Hindi, Bengali |
Anil Mohile | Marathi |
Anirudh Ravichander | Tamil, Telugu |
Ankit Tiwari | Hindi |
Anup Rubens | Telugu |
Anoop Seelin | Kannada |
Anu Malik | Hindi, Bengali, Kannada |
Arjuna Harjai | Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi |
Arjun Janya | Kannada |
A. R. Rahman | Tamil, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Punjabi, Malayalam, Kannada, English, Gujarati, Mandarin, [1] Japanese, [1] Persian, [2] Arabic, [2] |
A. R. Reihana | Tamil, Kannada |
Aruldev | Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada |
Arun Paudwal | Hindi, Marathi |
Ashok Bhatt | Gujarati |
Ashok Ghosh [3] | Hindi, Bengali |
Ashok Patki | Marathi, Konkani |
Avadhoot Gupte | Marathi |
Avinash Vyas | Hindi, Gujarati |
Baba Sehgal | Hindi |
Bappi Lahiri | Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu |
B Ajaneesh Loknath | Kannada, Tamil |
Berny-Ignatius | Malayalam |
Bennet–Veetraag | Malayalam |
Bharadwaj | Tamil, Telugu |
Bhaskar Chandavarkar | Marathi, Kannada, Hindi |
Bhavesh Bhatt | Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, English, Punjabi |
Bhavatharini | Tamil |
Bheems Ceciroleo | Telugu |
Bhupen Hazarika | Hindi, Bengali, Assamese |
Bijibal | Malayalam |
Bulo C Rani | Hindi |
C. R. Subbaraman | Tamil, Telugu, Hindi |
C. Ramchandra | Hindi, Marathi, Telugu |
Chaitan Bharadwaj | Telugu |
Chakri | Telugu, Kannada |
Chand Pardesi [4] | Hindi |
Chandrabose | Tamil |
Chitragupta | Hindi |
Chirrantan Bhatt | Hindi, Telugu |
C. Ashwath | Kannada |
Chowdiah | Kannada, Tamil |
Chaitra HG | Kannada |
Colonial Cousins | Hindi, Tamil |
Damodar Raao | Bhojpuri, Hindi, Marathi |
Datta Davjekar | Marathi, Hindi |
Datta Naik | Marathi, Hindi |
Dattaram Wadkar | Hindi, Marathi |
Debojyoti Mishra | Hindi, Bengali |
Deva | Tamil |
Devan Ekambaram | Tamil |
Devi Sri Prasad | Telugu, Tamil, Hindi |
Deepak Dev | Malayalam, Tamil |
Dharan | Tamil |
Dhina | Tamil |
Dharma Vish | Kannada, Hindi |
Emani Sankara Sastry | Hindi, Telugu |
G.Aswathama [5] | Telugu |
Ghulam Mohammed (composer) | Hindi |
G. K. Venkatesh | Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu |
G. Devarajan | Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada |
Gangai Amaran | Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam |
Gopi Sunder | Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi |
Ghantasala | Telugu, Tamil, Kannada |
Gali Penchala Narasimha Rao | Telugu |
Ghibran | Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam |
Gurukiran | Kannada, Telugu |
G. V. Prakash Kumar | Tamil, Telugu, Kannada |
Hamsalekha | Kannada, Tamil, Telugu |
Hansraj Behl | Hindi, Punjabi |
Harris Jayaraj | Tamil, Telugu, Hindi |
Hesham Abdul Wahab | Malayam, Telugu |
Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay | Bengali, Hindi |
Himesh Reshammiya | Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Bhojpuri, Marathi, English and French |
Hridaynath Mangeshkar | Hindi, Marathi |
Hiphop Tamizha | Tamil, Telugu |
Husnlal Bhagatram | Hindi |
Ishaan Dev | Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada |
Ilayaraja | Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Kannada, English, Marathi [6] |
Iqbal Qureshi | Hindi |
Ismail Darbar | Hindi |
Imman | Tamil, Telugu, Kannada |
Jagjit Singh | Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi |
Jaidev | Hindi |
James Vasanthan | Tamil |
Jassie Gift | Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu |
Jatin–Lalit | Hindi, Bengali, Telugu |
Jeet Ganguly | Hindi, Bengali |
Jerry Amaldev | Malayalam |
Johnson | Malayalam, Tamil |
Joshua Sridhar | Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu |
Jubair Muhammed | Malayalam |
Joy Sarkar | Bengali |
J. V. Raghavulu | Telugu |
Kabir Suman | Bengali |
K. V. Mahadevan | Tamil, Telugu |
K. Chakravarthy | Kannada, Telugu |
K | Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam |
K. Kalyan | Kannada |
Kailash-Naresh-Paresh | Hindi |
Kalyanji-Anandji | Hindi, Gujarati |
Kanu Roy | Hindi, Bengali |
Kannur Rajan | Malayalam |
Karthik | Tamil |
Karthikeya Murthy | Tamil, Telugu |
Karthik Raja | Tamil, Kannada |
Kelkar [7] | Marathi, Telugu |
Komanduri Ramachari | Telugu |
K. Prasada Rao [8] | Telugu |
Krishnarao Phulambrikar | Hindi, Marathi |
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan | Tamil |
Khayyam | Hindi |
Khemchand Prakash | Hindi |
Khwaja Khurshid Anwar | Hindi, Urdu |
Kishore Kumar | Hindi, Bengali |
Kumar Sanu | Hindi, Bengali |
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan | Tamil |
Lachhiram Tomar [9] | Hindi |
Lalit Pandit | Hindi |
Laxmikant–Pyarelal | Hindi, Telugu |
Lesle Lewis | Hindi, Marathi |
Lata Mangeshkar | Marathi as Anandghan |
L. Vaidyanathan | Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam |
Madan Mohan | Hindi |
Master Venu | Telugu, Tamil |
M. S. Viswanathan | Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu |
M. Ranga Rao | Kannada |
M. M. Keeravani/M. M. Kreem | Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam |
Mani Sharma | Telugu, Tamil |
Madhavapeddi Suresh | Telugu |
Manikanth Kadri | Kannada, Tamil |
Mano Murthy | Kannada |
Manoj George | Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi |
Meet Bros | Hindi, Punjabi |
Mejo Joseph | Malayalam |
M. G. Radhakrishnan | Malayalam, Tamil |
M. G. Sreekumar | Malayalam, Tamil |
Mickey J Meyer | Telugu |
Mithoon Sharma | Hindi |
M.Janardhan [10] | Telugu |
M. Jayachandran | Malayalam, Tamil |
M. M. Srilekha | Telugu |
Monty Sharma | Hindi |
M. S. Baburaj | Malayalam |
M. Venkataraju | Kannada, Tamil |
Nadeem–Shravan | Hindi |
Naushad Ali | Hindi, Bhojpuri, Malayalam |
Neeta Sen | Bengali |
Nilesh Moharir | Marathi |
Nitz 'N' Sony | Hindi |
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | Hindi |
O. P. Nayyar | Hindi, Telugu |
Ouseppachan | Malayalam, Tamil |
P. Adinarayana Rao | Telugu, Tamil, Hindi |
Pankaj Mullick | Hindi, Bengali |
Pannalal Ghosh | Hindi, Bengali |
Papanasam Sivan | Tamil, Kannada |
Pendyala Nageswara Rao | Telugu, Tamil |
Perumbavoor G. Raveendranath | Malayalam |
P. Kalinga Rao | Kannada |
Prashanth R Vihari | Telugu |
Prashant Pillai | Hindi, Malayalam |
Pravin Mani | Tamil, Telugu |
Praveen D Rao | Kannada |
Prem Dhawan | Hindi, Punjabi |
Prem Anand | Odia, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali |
Premgi Amaren | Tamil |
Pritam Chakraborty | Hindi, Bengali |
P. Bhanumathi | Telugu, Tamil |
P.V.R. Raja | Telugu, Hindi |
Raichand Boral | Hindi, Bengali |
Raj Kamal | Hindi |
Ramlal Hirapanna Chowdhury [11] | Hindi |
Ravi (composer) | Hindi, Malayalam |
Rahul Dev Burman | Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Oriya, Marathi, English |
Ramjeevan | Tamil |
R. Sudarsanam | Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam |
Raghu Dixit | Kannada |
Rahul Raj | Telugu, Malayalam |
Raj–Koti | Telugu, Tamil, Kannada |
Raju Singh | Hindi, Punjabi |
Rajan–Nagendra | Kannada, Telugu |
Rajesh Ramanath | Kannada |
Rajesh Roshan | Hindi, Bengali |
Rajkumar R. Pandey | Bhojpuri |
Rajnish Mishra | Bhojpuri |
Ram Kadam | Marathi |
Raamlaxman | Marathi, Hindi |
R. P. Patnaik | Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Hindi |
Ramana Gogula | Telugu, Tamil, Kannada |
Ramesh Naidu | Telugu |
Ranjit Barot | Hindi |
Raveendran | Malayalam, Tamil |
Ravi Basrur | Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi. |
Ravindra Jain | Hindi, Telugu |
Ricky Kej | Malayalam, Kannada |
Rohan-Rohan | Hindi, Marathi |
Roop Kumar Rathod | Hindi, Bengali |
Roshan | Hindi |
Sachin–Jigar | Hindi, Gujarati |
Sadhu Kokila | Kannada |
Sajid–Wajid | Hindi |
Salil Chowdhury | Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam |
Saleel Kulkarni | Marathi |
Salim–Sulaiman | Hindi, Tamil, Telugu |
Sanjib Sarkar | Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, English & Devotional [12] |
Sandesh Shandilya | Hindi |
Sandeep Chowta | Hindi, Telugu |
Sangeet-Siddharth | Hindi, Marathi |
Sanjay Leela Bhansali | Hindi |
Sanjeev–Darshan | Hindi |
Santosh Mishra | Hindi, Bhojpuri, Gujarati |
Sapan-Jagmohan [13] | Hindi, Bengali |
S. A. Rajkumar | Tamil, Telugu, Kannada |
Sardar Malik | Hindi |
Sardul Singh Kwatra | Hindi |
Satyam | Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu |
S. D. Burman | Hindi, Bengali |
Shankar Rao Vyas [14] | Hindi, Marathi |
Shankar–Ganesh | Tamil, Kannada, Telugu |
Shanti Kumar Desai | Hindi, Gujarati |
Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy | Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu, English |
Shankar Mahadevan | Tamil, Marathi, Hindi |
Shankar–Jaikishan | Hindi, Bengali, Telugu |
Shiv–Hari | Hindi |
S. Hanumantha Rao | Telugu |
Shantanu Moitra | Hindi, Bengali |
Sharreth | Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu |
Shashwat Sachdev | Hindi |
Shyam | Malayalam, Tamil |
Shruti Haasan | Tamil, Telugu |
Simon K. King | Tamil, Telugu |
S. M. Subbaiah Naidu | Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu |
S. N. Tripathi | Hindi |
S. Narayan | Kannada |
Snehal Bhatkar | Hindi, Marathi |
Sneha Khanwalkar | Hindi |
Sohail Sen | Hindi, Bengali |
S. P. Balasubrahmanyam | Telugu, Kannada, Tamil |
S. P. Kodandapani | Telugu, Tamil, Kannada |
S. P. Venkatesh | Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam |
Salur Rajeswara Rao | Telugu, Tamil, Kannada |
Srinivas | Tamil |
Srikanth Deva | Tamil |
Sri | Telugu |
Snehal Bhatkar | Hindi, Marathi |
Sajjad Hussain | Hindi |
Sudhir Phadke | Hindi, Marathi |
Suresh Peters | Malayalam, Tamil |
Susarla Dakshinamurthi | Telugu, Tamil |
S. V. Krishna Reddy | Telugu |
Santhosh Narayanan | Tamil, Telugu |
Sweekar Agasthi | Telugu |
Selvaganesh | Tamil, Kannada |
Thaman S | Telugu, Tamil, Kannada |
T. Chalapathi Rao | Telugu |
T. V. Raju | Telugu |
T. G. Lingappa | Kannada, Tamil, Telugu |
T. K. Ramamoorthy | Tamil, Telugu |
Upendra Kumar | Kannada |
Usha Khanna | Hindi |
Uttam Singh | Hindi, Tamil |
Usha Khanna | Hindi |
Vandemataram Srinivas | Telugu |
Vani Harikrishna | Kannada |
Vanraj Bhatia | Hindi |
Varun Unni | Malayalam |
Vasant Desai | Hindi, Marathi |
V. Dakshinamoorthy | Malayalam, Tamil |
Vasant Desai | Marathi, Hindi |
V. Harikrishna | Kannada, Telugu |
Vidyasagar | Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam |
Vijay Antony | Tamil, Telugu |
Vijay Prakash | Tamil, Kannada |
Vijaya Bhaskar | Kannada |
Viju Shah | Hindi, Gujarati |
Vikram Montrose | Hindi |
Vishal Bhardwaj | Hindi |
Vivek Sagar | Telugu |
Vishal Mishra | Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu |
Vishal–Shekhar | Hindi, Marathi, Telugu |
Viswajith | Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, English |
V. Kumar | Tamil |
V. Manohar | Kannada |
V. Nagayya | Telugu |
V. Ravichandran | Kannada |
Yashwant Deo [15] | Hindi, Marathi |
Yuvan Shankar Raja | Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, English |
Honey Singh | Punjabi |
Zakir Hussain | Independent |
Zubeen Garg | Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, English |
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