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