List of Indian film music directors

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The following are notable Indian film music directors:

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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, Hindi

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
Kanish Sharma | Hindi, Punjabi
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
Mahati Swara Sagar | Telugu
Master Venu | Telugu, Tamil
M. S. Viswanathan | Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu
M. Ranga Rao | Kannada
M. M. Keeravani | 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
Nitesh Tiwari | Hindi [11]
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
Ravi | Hindi, Malayalam
Rahul Dev Burman | Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Oriya, Marathi, English
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
Ram Miriyala | Telugu
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
Sashank Navaladi  | Hindi, English and all Indian Languages
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
Sushin Shyam | Malayalam
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
Vijai Bulganin | Telugu
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

## References

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1. ^ a b Warriors of Heaven and Earth (2003), retrieved 21 July 2018
2. ^ a b Muhammad: The Messenger of God (2015), retrieved 21 July 2018
3. ^ lyricsmotion. "Songs Composed by Ashok Ghosh". lyricsmotion.com. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
4. ^ IMDB. "Chand Pardesi Biography". imdb.com. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
5. ^ IMDB. "G. Aswathama Biography". imdb.com. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
6. ^ "Raaga - Illayaraja Tamil songs. Illayaraja music videos, interviews, non-stop channel". Raaga.com. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
7. ^ moviegq.com. "Kelkar Music Director". moviegq. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
8. ^ moviegq.com. "K.Prasada Rao Music Director". moviegq. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
9. ^ IMDB. "Lachhiram Biography". imdb.com. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
10. ^ moviegq.com. "MJanardhan Music Director". moviegq. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
11. ^ Sen, Subhadrika (27 July 2023). "Nitesh Tiwari on completing a decade in Bollywood music". Indulgexpress. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
12. ^ "New kid on the block". The Statesman. 20 August 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
13. ^ myswar.co. "Sapan sen Gupta Jagmohan Bakshi Music Director". myswar.co. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
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