List of Indian film music directors

Most Indian films are musicals, and their music directors are among the best known musicians in India. Music directors are typically both composers and arrangers. Some are famed playback singers as well.

See the article on filmi music.

Notable directors include:

Music Director Language
A. R. Rahman Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam
Aadesh Shrivastava Hindi
Adnan Sami Hindi
Ajay-Atul Marathi, Hindi
Amit Trivedi Hindi
Anand Raj Anand Hindi
Anand-Milind Hindi
Anand Sharavan Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam
Anil Biswas Hindi
Anu Malik Hindi
Avinash Narayan Hindi
Baba Sehgal Hindi
Bappi Lahiri Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu
Berny Ignatius Malayalam
Bharathwaj Tamil, Telugu
Bhaskar Chandavarkar Hindi
Bhavatharini Tamil, Hindi
Bhupen Hazarika Hindi, Assamese
C. Aswath Kannada
C. Ramchandra Hindi
Chakravarthy Kannada, Telugu
Chitragupta Hindi
Colonial Cousins Hindi, Tamil
Dabboo Malik Hindi
Dakshinamurthy Malayalam, Tamil
Datta Naik Hindi
Deepak Dev Malayalam, Tamil
Devi Sri Prasad Telugu, Tamil, Hindi
Deva Tamil,Hindi
Devan Ekambaram Tamil
Dharan Tamil
Dhina Tamil
Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen Hindi
Eshaan Sahney Hindi , English , Punjabi
G. Devarajan Malayalam, Hindi
G. K. Venkatesh Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu
G. V. Prakash Kumar Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi
Gangai Amaren Tamil, Telugu, Kannada
Gopi Sundar Malayalam
Ghantasala Telugu, Tamil, Kannada
Gurukiran Kannada, Telugu
Hamsalekha Kannada, Tamil, Telugu
Harris Jayaraj Tamil, Hindi, Telugu
Hemant Kumar Hindi
Himesh Reshammiya Hindi, Tamil
Hridaynath Mangeshkar Marathi, Hindi
Ilayaraja Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada, English, Marathi
Imman Tamil, Telugu
Issac Thomas Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada
Ismail Darbar Hindi
J. V. Raghavulu Telugu
Jaikeey Tamil
James Vasanthan Tamil
Jassie Gift Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada
Jatin-Lalit Hindi, Telugu
Johnson Malayalam, Tamil
Joshua Sridhar Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu
K. Kalyan Kannada
K V Mahadevan Tamil, Telugu
Kailash-Naresh-Paresh Hindi
Kalyanji Anandji Hindi
Karthik Tamil
Karthik Raja Tamil, Hindi, Kannada
Khayyam Hindi
Koti Telugu
Kumar Sanu Hindi
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan Tamil
L. Vaidyanathan Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam
Lalit Pandit Hindi
Laxmikant Pyarelal Hindi
Leslie Lewis Hindi
M. Jayachandran Malayalam, Tamil
M. Ranga Rao Kannada
M. G. Radhakrishnan Malayalam, Tamil
M. G. Sreekumar Malayalam, Tamil
M. M. Keeravani/M. M. Kreem/Maragathamani Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam
M. M. Sreelekha Telugu
M S Viswanathan Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu
Madan Mohan Hindi
Mani Sharma Telugu, Tamil
Manikanth Kadri Kannada, Tamil
Mano Murthy Kannada
Mithoon Sharma Hindi
Monty Sharma Hindi
Naushad Hindi
Nikhil-Vinay Hindi
Neyant Sahney Hindi
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Hindi
O.P. Nayyar Hindi
Ouseppachan Malayalam, Tamil
Pankaj Mullick Hindi
Pendyala Nageswara Rao Telugu, Tamil
Prashant Pillai Hindi, Malayalam
Pravin Mani Tamil, Telugu, Hindi
Premji Amaran Tamil
Pritam Chakraborty Hindi
R.D. Burman Hindi
R. P. Patnaik Telugu, Kannada, Tamil
Rahul Raj Telugu, Malayalam
Raj-Koti Telugu, Tamil, Kannada
Rajan-Nagendra Kannada, Telugu
Rajesh Ramnath Kannada
Rajesh Roshan Hindi
Ram Lakshman Hindi
Ramana Gogula Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi
Ramesh Sippy Hindi
Ramesh Naidu Telugu
Ranjith Barot Hindi
Raveendran Malayalam, Tamil
Ravindra Jain Hindi
Roop Kumar Rathod Hindi
S.D. Burman Hindi
S. P. Balasubramanyam Tamil, Telugu, Kannada
S. P. Venkatesh Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam
Saluri Rajeswara Rao Telugu, Tamil, Kannada
Sadhu Kokila Kannada
Sagar S Kannada,Tamil
Salil Chowdhury Hindi
Sajid-Wajid Hindi
Sandesh Shandilya Hindi
Sandeep Chowta Hindi
Sanjay Leela Bhansali Hindi
Sanjeev Darshan Hindi
Sankalp Srivastava Hindi, Punjabi
Sankar Ganesh Tamil, Kannada, Telugu
Satyam Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu
Selvaganesh Tamil, Kannada
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, English
Shankar-Jaikishan Hindi
Shankar Sahney Hindi , Punjabi , English
Shantanu Moitra Bengali, Hindi
Sharreth Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu
Shruti Hassan Tamil, Hindi, Telugu
Sirpy Tamil
Srinivas Tamil
Sohail Sen Hindi
Srikanth Deva Tamil
Sukhwinder Singh Hindi
Sundar C. Babu Tamil, Telugu
Suresh Peters Malayalam, Tamil
T. G. Lingappa Kannada, Tamil, Telugu
T. K. Ramamoorthy Tamil, Telugu
Thaman Tamil, Telugu
Thomas Rathnam Tamil , Kannada , English , Hindi , Telugu , Malayalam
Upendra Kumar Kannada
Uttam Singh Hindi, Tamil
V. Harikrishna Kannada, Telugu
V Kumar Tamil
V. Manohar Kannada
V. Ravichandran Kannada
Vidyasagar Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi
Vijay Antony Tamil, Telugu
Vijaya Bhaskar Kannada
Viju Shah Hindi
Vishal Bhardwaj Hindi
Vishal-Shekhar Hindi
Vivek Sawhney Hindi , English , Punjabi , Himachali
Vivek-Ehsaan-Neyant Hindi ,Punjabi , English
Yuvan Shankar Raja Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada
Zakir Hussain Hindi
Zubeen Garg Hindi

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