The Filmfare Best Male Playback Singer Award is given by Indian film magazine '' Filmfare'' as a part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films, to recognise a male playback singer who has delivered an outstanding performance in a film song. Although the Filmfare Awards started in 1954, awards for the best playback singer category started in 1959. From inception of the category through 1967, both the female and male singers used to compete for a single award, after which separate categories were created for

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and male singers respectively.

Superlatives

* Kishore Kumar won the award the maximum number of times 8 in this category, whereas

Mohammad Rafi Mohammed Rafi (24 December 1924 – 31 July 1980) was an Indian playback singer and musician. He is considered to have been one of the greatest and most influential singers of the Indian subcontinent. Rafi was notable for his versatility and ...

& Arijit Singh won it 6 times each.

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have won the award 5 times each.

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has won this award four times. Mahendra Kapoor has won it thrice. *

dominated the 60's with 5 wins. Kishore Kumar,

had the highest win during 70's winning the award 3 times each. Kishore Kumar continued domination during 80's with 5 wins. Kumar Sanu with most 5 consecutive wins from 1990 to 1995. Udit Narayan,

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and Shaan sharing 2 awards among each other in 2000s. Arijit Singh dominated 2010's with 5 wins. * Kishore Kumar has the most nominations (28), followed by

(21) and

(20). Arijit Singh (18),

(17),

(14) &

(14) among others. *

holds a unique record of receiving nominations in this category in 3 different decades (1980s, 1990s and 2000s) and getting award in all 3 different decades also the only singer of different origin (

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i) to win 5 times till date. Arijit Singh (2016-2020) &

(1991-1995) holds the record for most consecutive wins, five times in a row. Coincidentally, the songs for which Kumar Sanu won the awards, their music also won the

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. Kishore Kumar won the award four times in a row from 1983 to 1986. *

is the only playback singer who won this award posthumously (1977). * Himesh Reshammiya became the first music director to win this award in 2006. * Two singers have achieved the feat of receiving all the nominations of this category in a particular year: Mohammed Rafi was the single nominee in 1969, having all the three nominations to his credit, while Kishore Kumar was the single nominee in 1985, having all the four nominations to his credit. Incidentally, Kishore Kumar's all nominated songs were from a single movie, ''

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''.

Most wins

Most consecutive wins

Multiple nominees

Winners and nominees

1950s

Note: The category for Best Playback Singer was established in 1959, and until 1967 both male and female singers used to compete for a single award.

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

External links

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{{Filmfare Awards Male Playback Indian music awards