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	'''Udit Narayan Jha''', popularly known as '''Udit Narayan''' is a ] in commercial ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ] language cinema. Narayan has sung more than 15,000 songs in more than 30 different languages.<ref>{{cite web \|url= http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=139917 \|title= Destiny’s child \|accessdate=2009-01-26 \|last= Suhasini \|first= Lalitha \|coauthors= \|date= ] \|work= The Indian Express \|publisher=}}</ref> He is also a recipient of the ] award, one of India's highest civilian honours, which he received in 2009.
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			'''Udit Narayan Jha''' (born 1 December 1955) is an Indian ]<ref>{{Cite web\|title=List of Odia songs by Udit Narayan\|url=https://gaana.com/artist/udit-narayan/odia-songs\|website=Gaana}}</ref> whose songs have been featured mainly in ] films. He has also sung in various other languages including ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ].<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Udit Narayan - Chunri Lyrics {{!}} Lyrics.com \|url=https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/14591709/Udit+Narayan/Chunri \|access-date=25 March 2024 \|website=www.lyrics.com}}</ref> He has won four ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.filmibeat.com/amphtml/bollywood/features/2018/happy-birthday-udit-narayan-six-best-songs-of-the-prince-of-playback-singing-279998.html\|title=Udit Narayan National award\|website=Filmibeat.com\|access-date=26 October 2018}}</ref> and five ] with twenty nominations among many others. The ] honoured him with the ] in 2009<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.radioandmusic.com/entertainment/editorial/news/160125-seven-years-after-padma-shree-udit-narayan\|title=Seven years after Padma Shree, Udit Narayan honoured with Padma Bhushan\|website=Radioandmusic.com\|access-date=26 October 2018}}</ref> and the ] in 2016 for his contribution towards arts and culture.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web \| url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf \| title=Padma Awards \| publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India \| date=2015 \| access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref> As many as 21 of his tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time".<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/features/top40_soundtracks_10_01.shtml\|title=Top 40 Soundtracks of All Time\|publisher=BBC Asian Network \|access-date=26 October 2018}}</ref>

			He got to sing with ] in his Hindi playback debut in ''Unees-Bees'' in 1980 and also with ] in the 1980s. He finally made his mark in the 1988 film '']'' starring ] and ], his song "Papa Kehte Hain" was his notable performance which earned him his first Filmfare Award in the 1980s and he established himself in Bollywood Playback Singing. The soundtrack became one of the highest selling albums in the 1980s. The soundtrack was a breakthrough for the careers of ],<ref>{{cite journal \|title=India Today \|journal=] \|date=1993 \|volume=18 \|page=52 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=crIYAQAAMAAJ \|publisher=] \|quote=Anand–Milind did six films before hitting the jackpot with Qayamat se Qayamat Tak in 1988.}}</ref> as well as ], one of India's leading record labels.<ref name="Booth">{{cite book \|last=Booth \|first=Gregory D. \|title=Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios \|date=2008 \|publisher=] \|isbn=9780199716654 \|page=80 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jx1R5rgjaigC&pg=PA80}}</ref> after which he was one of the favourites of music directors. In the 1990s he sung for a thousands of songs including Hindi and Nepali languages.

			Recognising his contribution, the ] ] honoured him with the ] in 2001 after his contribution to Indian cinema and music, and Chitragupta Cineyatra Samman 2015 for his contribution towards ].<ref name="pb">{{Cite web\|url=https://kathmandupost.com/art-entertainment/2016/01/25/udit-narayan-to-receive-indias-padma-bhushan\|title=Udit Narayan to receive India's Padma Bhushan\|website=Kathmandu Post \|access-date=15 February 2022}}</ref> He is the only male singer in the history of the ] to have won in over three decades (the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s).<ref name="toi bio UN">{{cite news \|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/udit-narayan \|title=Udit Narayan: Latest News, Videos and Udit Narayan Photos \|website=The Times of India \|access-date=26 October 2018}}</ref>

			==Early life==
			Udit Narayan Jha was born on 1 December 1955 in an ethnic ] family to Harekrishna Jha, a ] national, and Bhuvaneshwari Jha, an ] national.<ref name='bday'>{{cite news \|url=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/aditya-bakes-a-cake-for-father-udit-narayan-on-birthday/16736163 \|title=Aditya bakes a cake for father Udit Narayan on birthday \|publisher=] \|date=3 December 2015 \|access-date=15 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|last1=Shaw \|first1=Shri Ram \|title=Exclusive – Udit Narayan on completing 40 years in Bollywood: Bitterness of struggle makes success sweeter \|url=https://newsable.asianetnews.com/entertainment/exclusive-udit-narayan-on-completing-40-years-in-bollywood-bitterness-of-struggle-makes-success-sweeter-qd00cc \|access-date=17 November 2020 \|publisher=Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd \|date=5 July 2020 \|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Outlook_int_2017"/> In 2009, when Narayan was awarded India's fourth highest civilian honour '']'', there were reports questioning his Indian citizenship, claiming that he was born in Nepal. However, Udit Narayan himself branded these reports as "completely false", and stated that he was born in the Baisi village of ] in ] at his maternal grandparents' home near the ].<ref name="IANS_birth">{{cite news \|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/music/getting-padma-shri-a-dream-come-true/story-yiohUwVr91LVN8cLJ8GR3H.html \|title=Getting Padma Shri a dream come true \|date=28 January 2009 \|work=Hindustan Times \|quote='They say I was born in Nepal, but that's completely false. I was born in a village called Baisi on the Supaul district of Bihar in 1955 at my maternal grandparents' home,' Udit had said in a recent interview with IANS. \|access-date=2 March 2021}}</ref> When his acceptance of the ''Padma Shri'' led to his criticism in Nepal, he told the Nepalese daily '']'' that he was "from Nepal but his mother's home was in Bihar."<ref>{{cite news \|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/Artistes-have-no-borders-Udit-Narayan-tells-Nepal/articleshow/4037648.cms \|title=Artistes have no borders, Udit Narayan tells Nepal \|work=The Times of India \|date=27 January 2009 \|access-date=2 March 2021}}</ref> In a 2017 interview with the Indian magazine '']'', he clarified that he was born in Baisi, and clarified that his father Harekrishna was a native of ], ], ] (present-day ]), ] on the border with India.<ref name="Outlook_int_2017">{{cite news \|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/song-of-life-diary/298795 \|title=Song Of Life Diary \|author=Udit Narayan \|date=8 May 2017 \|work=Outlook \|access-date=2 March 2021}}</ref> In September 2018, Udit Narayan revealed at a ceremony held by the Bihar Jharkhand Association of North America, that he identifies as a ].<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.patnadaily.com/index.php/news/13809-bihar-jharkhand-association-of-north-america-honors-singer-udit-narayan.html\|title=Bihar Jharkhand Association of North America Honors Singer Udit Narayan\|date=8 September 2018\|work=PatnaDaily\|access-date=26 October 2018}}</ref>

			Narayan studied at Jageshwar High School, Kunauli, Supaul, Bihar, India, where he finished his ] and later obtained his intermediate degree from ] of ] in ], ]. His father Harekrishna Jha was a farmer and his mother Bhuvneshwari Devi was a ] who encouraged his career.<ref name="udititunes">{{cite web\|url=https://itunes.apple.com/in/artist/udit-narayan/id18485031\|title=Udit Narayan on iTunes\|work=ITunes\|access-date=2 March 2021}}</ref><ref name="firstwifecaseref1">{{cite news\|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-singer-udit-narayan-accosted-by-first-wife-1025327\|title=Singer Udit Narayan accosted by 'first' wife\|last1=PTI\|work=]\|date=21 April 2006\|access-date=13 June 2017}}</ref><ref name="uditff">{{cite web\|url=http://www.filmfare.com/interviews/udit-narayan-looks-back-at-his-career-with-affection-14692.html\|title=Udit Narayan looks back at his career with affection\|last1=Sharma\|first1=Devesh\|date=23 July 2016\|work=]\|access-date=13 June 2017}}</ref>

			== Personal life ==
			In 2006, Ranjana Narayan claimed to be Narayan's first wife, but Narayan consistently denied it. Later, he accepted her as his wife and promised to provide for her maintenance.<ref name="firstwifecase2">{{cite news\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Udit-Narayan-meets-first-wife-Ranjana/articleshow/1694218.cms\|title=Udit Narayan meets 'first wife' Ranjana\|website=The Times of India \|access-date=13 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Tale-of-two-wives/articleshow/1833057.cms\|title=Tale of two wives\|website=The Times of India \|access-date=13 June 2017}}</ref> Narayan has been married twice, first to Ranjana Narayan Jha and then to Deepa Gahatraj. He began his relationship with Deepa Gahatraj while he was still married to Ranjana Narayan. Narayan and Deepa were married in 1985. With Deepa Gahatraj, he has one son, ], who is also a playback singer.<ref name="uditson">{{cite news\|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-l-il-champs-host-sa-re-ga-ma-pa-l-il-champs-aditya-narayan-today-people-know-me-by-my-name/story-1gH4kJrnmRyEXrFEHb7DYJ.html\|title=Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs' Aditya Narayan: Today people know me by my name\|website=Hindustan Times \|date=10 March 2017\|access-date=13 June 2017}}</ref><ref name="firstwifecase2" /><ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.indiatimes.com/entertainment/celebs/indian-celebrities-who-married-their-mistresses-277600-32.html\|title=Indian Celebrities Who Married Their Mistresses\|website=Indiatimes.com \|date=26 October 2015\|access-date=13 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2006/jun/28udit.htm\|title=Udit Narayan wants compromise with first wife\|website=Rediff.com\|date=28 June 2006\|first=Anand Mohan\|last=Sahay\|access-date=12 December 2018}}</ref>

	==Career==		==Career==
			Narayan is one of the most prominent singers of Bollywood throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. He has been the on-screen singing voice for various Bollywood stars. He has sung for Bollywood actors ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ]. Most of his duets are with ]. He began his career in 1970 as a ] ] singer (staff artist) for ], singing mostly popular folk songs in ] and ].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.radioandmusic.com/entertainment/editorial/news/160428-15-facts-about-bollywood-music-you-never\|title=15 facts about Bollywood music you never knew\|website=Radioandmusic.com\|access-date=13 June 2017}}</ref>{{unreliable source?\|date=December 2018}} Gradually, he started singing modern Nepali songs. After eight years, Narayan moved to Bombay on a musical scholarship for Nepalese from the Indian Embassy in Nepal to study classical music at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan.

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	Udit Narayan was born in Bhardah, in Saptari district in the Terai plains of Nepal in 1955. He received training from Pandit Dinkar Kaffini. He began his career by singing in Nepali, Maithili, and Bhojpuri . He was initially denied a job at ]. He sang folk songs for ] throughout the early 1970s. In 1978, he moved to ] on a music scholarship. In Mumbai, he was trained in ] for six years at the ].
			Narayan started his Bollywood career in 1980 when he was noted by ] Rajesh Roshan, who asked Narayan to playback sing for the Hindi film ''Unees-Bees''. Narayan was given the opportunity to sing with the singer ]. He sang for Devanand a couplet in Swami Dada.His first duet was in the film Sannata. Soon after, Narayan sang for a number of other films, including '']'' in 1983, where he sang a duet with senior singer ], composed by senior music director R. D. Burman. In the same year, Narayan sang with ] in the film ''Kehdo Pyar Hai''. Another singer he sang with was ] with music composed by ]. A significant milestone in his career occurred in 1988 when ] gave him the opportunity to sing all the songs for the Bollywood film '']'', with ], which earned him a ].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Filmfare_Awards/1989\|title=IMDB:Filmfare Awards:1989\|website=IMDb\|access-date=15 February 2022}}{{Unreliable source?\|date=April 2023}}</ref> In a 2014 interview with ], Narayan said: "The song I've sung, "Manzilein", is the best song of my career after "Pehla Nasha", which gave me superstardom!".<ref name="ref159">{{cite news\|title='Life Is Beautiful' has soulful rendition of music\|date=21 August 2014\|url=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/life-is-beautiful-has-soulful-rendition-of-music/15547168\|access-date=24 June 2017\|work=]}}</ref> Narayan remained prolific through the 2000s, singing numbers in films such as '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'' and '']''.

			In 2002, Narayan sang "]" with newcomer ], from the film '']'', of which ] mentioned: "Narayan successfully captures the eternal romanticism of Devdas".<ref name="devdas">{{cite web\|title=The unchained melody of Devdas\|url=http://www.rediff.com/entertai/2002/apr/12dev.htm\|website=]\|access-date=24 June 2017}}</ref> In 2014, Narayan sang a song titled "Naa Hum Jo Kah De" along with Shreya Ghoshal, for the album ''Women's Day Special: Spreading Melodies Everywhere''. The song was composed by Ram Shankar and penned by A. K. Mishra.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Women's Day Special- Spreading Melodies Everywhere\|date=3 March 2014\|url=https://www.saavn.com/s/album/hindi/Womens-Day-Special--Spreading-Melodies-Everywhere-2014/N69H3h3i2og_\|publisher=]\|access-date=24 June 2017}}</ref>
	He got his first break in 1980, when noted music director (composer) ] asked him to do a song for the Hindi film ''Unees Bees'', in which he got opportunity to sing with his inspiration, ]. However, the actual success story of his career began in 1988 with the successful Bollywood movie '']'', earning him a ].<ref>{{citenews \|url=http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Filmfare_Awards/1989 \|title=IMDB:Filmfare Awards:1989}}</ref> The film also brought actor ], actress ] and playback singer ] to stardom. After the success of '']'', he became one of the leading playback singers in the Indian film industry, lending his voice mostly in Aamir Khan movies like '']'', and '']''. At the same time, he became a well-known celebrity in ] and sang in many popular Nepalese movies. He even acted in some Nepalese movies like '']'' and ''Pirati'', but did not achieve much success.

			He competed with his closest professional rival ] who won five consecutive Filmfare awards in the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/udit-narayan-mn0000173866/biography\|title=Udit Narayan broke streak of Kumar Sanu\|website=]\|access-date=20 December 2018}}</ref>
	He has worked with musicians like Rahul Dev Burman, Jagjit Singh, Anu Malik, Jatin Lalit, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Kalyanji-Anandji, Bappi Lahiri, Vishal Bhardwaj, A. R. Rahman, Nadeem-Shravan, Rajesh Roshan, Shankar Mahadevan, Himesh Reshammiya, Pritam Chakraborty, Vishal-Shekhar, and leading directors like ], ], and ]. These include ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].
	Throughout the 1990s, he was one of the most successful singers in India.{{Fact\|date=August 2008}} In 1995, his song "Mehndi Lagake Rakhna" from the movie '']'' won him his second Filmfare Award after 7 years.{{Fact\|date=August 2008}} The following year, he was nominated for three songs out of five and won his third National award for the song "Pardesi Pardesi" from '']''.{{Fact\|date=August 2008}} Narayan has collaborated with a variety of singers, including ], ], ], and ].

			Narayan's work has been praised by his contemporaries ], ] and music director ].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/videos/celeb-interviews/sonu-nigam-arijit-singh-shreya-ghoshal-and-many-more-are-my-favorite-singers-ankit-tiwari/\|date=25 October 2016\|access-date=12 March 2017\|title=Shreya Ghoshal And Many More Are Ankit Tiwari's Favorite Singers\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312183224/http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/videos/celeb-interviews/sonu-nigam-arijit-singh-shreya-ghoshal-and-many-more-are-my-favorite-singers-ankit-tiwari/\|archive-date=12 March 2017\|website=]\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=Aditya is too modest to be like Udit Narayan, says Alka Yagnik\|date=20 April 2017\|url=http://www.bollywoodlife.com/news-gossip/aditya-narayan-too-modest-to-be-like-udit-narayan-says-alka-yagnik/\|website=]\|access-date=30 June 2017}}</ref><ref name="kk1">{{cite news\|author1=Dhwani Desai\|title=Bollywood singing has to come to an end at some point: Kavita Krishnamurti\|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/kannada/music/bollywood-singing-has-to-come-to-an-end-at-some-point-kavita-krishnamurti/articleshow/59162516.cms\|work=]\|access-date=24 June 2017\|date=16 June 2017}}</ref> '']'' included him in the list of notable 90s playback singers.<ref name="listmd">{{cite news\|title=Bollywood playback singers who are tuned out!\|date=5 March 2014\|url=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/bollywood-playback-singers-who-are-tuned-out/15140052\|publisher=]\|access-date=24 June 2017}}</ref> Narayan is considered one of the most prominent singers of his generation.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.filmibeat.com/celebs/udit-narayan/biography.html\|title=Udit Narayan one of the most prominent singers\|website=Filmibeat.com\|access-date=26 July 2017}}</ref>
	His repertoire includes songs in ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ].

			==Other work==
	He has worked in Nepalese films as well, in particular for composer Shambhujeet Baskota. During his early singing career, he performed songs composed by ], Natikaji and Gopal Yonzan. In 2004, he released his first private Nepalese album ''Upahaar'', in which he also sang duets with his wife Deepa Jha. At the Hits FM Awards 2004 he won awards in two major categories for the album, Record of the Year and Album of the Year.{{Fact\|date=August 2008}} Some of Narayan's other private albums are ''Bhajan Sangam'', ''Bhajan Vatika'', ''I love You'', ''Dil Deewana'', ''Yeh Dosti'', ''Love is Life'', ''Jhumka de Jhumka'', ''Sona No Ghadulo'', ''Dhuli Ganga'', and ''Ma Tarini''.
			Narayan's friend Jiyand Nawab Deedag suggested he change his work from old to modern in order to be selected as a playback singer, but this did not work and, considering old films in 1973, Narayan sang a song for a Nepali film called ''Sindoor''. This was a comedy song for the Nepali comedians GopalRaj Mainali (Chankhe) and Basundhara Bhushal (Nakkali). Narayan sang this song with ], now known as Poornima in Hindi films. Narayan has also acted in two ] films – '']<ref name="Mid-Day 2018-12-16">{{Cite web \|date=16 December 2018 \|title=Indian Idol 10: Udit Narayan reveals he was paid Rs.1500 to act as a lead hero \|url=https://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/television-news/article/indian-idol-10-udit-narayan-reveals-he-was-paid-rs-1500-to-act-as-a-lead-hero-20101178 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311120234/https://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/television-news/article/indian-idol-10-udit-narayan-reveals-he-was-paid-rs-1500-to-act-as-a-lead-hero-20101178 \|archive-date=11 March 2023 \|access-date=8 January 2019 \|website=] \|language=en}}</ref>'' and ''Pirati'' in 1985.
			In 2004, he released his first non-movie ]ese album, ''Upahaar'', in which he sang duets with his wife Deepa Jha. Narayan has many solo albums as well, such as ''Bhajan Sangam'', ''Bhajan Vatika'', ''I Love You'', ''Dil Deewana'', ''Yeh Dosti'', ''Love is Life'', ''Jaanam'',''Jhumka de Jhumka'', ''Sona No Ghadulo'', ''Dhuli Ganga'' and ''Ma Tarini''.<ref name="Udit Narayan Album Upahar">{{cite web\|url=https://mio.to/album/Udit+Narayan/Upahar+%282008%29 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913013945/http://mio.to/album/Udit+Narayan/Upahar+%282008%29 \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=13 September 2016 \|title= Udit Narayan Upahar\|website=Mio.to\|date=June 2017}}</ref>

			Narayan has performed in many stage shows in India and abroad and is the recipient of many awards. These include Screen Videocon Award, MTV Best Video Award and Pride of India Gold Award.
	He was in the panel of judges on Sony TV for ''Waar Pariwaar'', a reality show based on the bringing together of a singing ] (family of singers). He shares judging duties with fellow ] ] and ] of the famous music duo ].
			In 2010, Narayan with ] sang for the English independent film '']''.

			Narayan also sang the title song for the TV show '']'', with ].<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Jain \|first1=Ananya \|date=1 April 2020 \|title=Quarantine Special: 10 Classic Shows of 80s and 90s, You Can Watch For Free During Lockdown \|url=https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/10-classic-shows-watch-online-free-lockdown-509811.html \|work=IndiaTimes \|access-date=20 December 2023}}</ref> In 2015 he was involved in a mega series campaign ], where 421 Nepali artists had sung a 33 minutes 49-second long environmental song, in which 365 artists set a ] on 19 May 2016 at Radio Nepal Studio, Singhadurbar, Kathamandu. It is written, composed and directed by environmentalist ].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/printedition/news/2016-05-29/nepali-house-hold-names-go-for-the-guinness-world-records.html\|title=Nepali house-hold names go for the Guinness World Records\|website=Kathmandupost.ekantipur.com\|access-date=26 October 2018}}</ref>
	Narayan has performed in many stage shows in India and abroad and is the recipient of a large number of awards. These include Screen Videocon Award, MTV Best Video Award and Pride of India Gold Award.

	==~~Personal life~~==		==Television==
			Narayan was on the panel of judges of '']'' in 2007 with music composer ] and playback singer ] on ].

			Narayan was on the panel of judges on Sony TV for '']'', a reality show based on the bringing together of a singing ] (family of singers). He shared judging duties with fellow playback singer ] and ] of the music duo ].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/bollywood/a189403/narayan-and-sanu-judge-mega-challenge/\|title= Udit Narayan As judge of Indian idol \|website= ] \|date= December 2009 \|access-date=24 June 2017}}</ref>
	Narayan is a Maithil Brahmin and a resident of Mumbai.<ref>{{cite web \|url= http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1387344.cms \|title= Udit Narayan: Music is God's prasad \|accessdate=2009-01-26 \|last= Sharma \|first= Purnima Goswami \|coauthors= \|date= ] \|work= Times of India \|publisher=}}</ref> He is married and has one son. His wife Deepa Narayan (from Darjeeling) whom he married in 1985, is an accomplished Nepalese singer, and the two recorded an album together titled ''Dil Deewana''.

			Narayan has appeared on '']''<ref>{{cite web\|title=Udit Narayan as Judge in Indian idol \|date=21 June 2008\|url=https://www.filmibeat.com/television/news/2008/udit-narayan-jo-jeeta-wohi-superstar-210608.html\|website=Filmibeat.com\|access-date=24 June 2017}}</ref> and '']'' as a guest.<ref name="show5">{{cite news\|title=Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik's throwback to the 90's on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs\|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/udit-narayan-and-alka-yagniks-throwback-to-the-90s-on-sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs/articleshow/58328230.cms\|work=]\|date=23 April 2017 \|access-date=24 June 2017}}</ref> In mid May 2024, he appeared as guest in ]'s '']'' for Kartik and Lakshmi's Sangeet caremony.<ref>{{Cite magazine \|last=IANS \|date=19 May 2024 \|title=Udit Narayan Will Sing Some Of His ‘Favourite Songs’ In ‘Mangal Lakshmi’ Sangeet Ceremony \|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/art-entertainment/television/udit-narayan-will-sing-some-of-his-favourite-songs-in-mangal-lakshmi-sangeet-ceremony \|magazine=Outlook India \|access-date=22 May 2024}}</ref>
	His son ] started his career singing for child artists in Hindi movies in the 1990's. More recently, he has been the host of Indian television singing competition Sa Re Ga Ma Pa for the last 2 seasons.

			==As an actor==
	On 20 April 2006 Ranjana Jha, a resident of the ] in ], created a controversy by claiming to be Udit Narayan's first wife.<ref>{{cite web \|url= http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1499562.cms \|title= B'wood singer accosted by 'first' wife \|accessdate=2009-01-26 \|last= Singh \|first= Abjay \|coauthors= Jha, Sanjeev K. \|date= ] \|work= Times of India \|publisher=}}</ref> While Narayan initially rejected her claims, after she presented photographs and documents to prove her claim he finally agreed to recognize her as his wife and reached a settlement with her.<ref>{{cite web \|url= http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=402447 \|title= Ranjana's struggle pays off, Udit Narayan accepts her as wife \|accessdate=2009-01-26 \|last= \|first= \|coauthors= \|date= ] \|work= ] \|publisher=}}</ref>
			Udit Narayan Jha acted in and sang all the songs in a 1985 Nepali film called '']'' which is one of the All Time Classics in Nepali film industry starring himself with ] and ], which spent 25 weeks on the box office top ten list and became the highest-grossing Nepalese film of all time until overtaken in 2001 by another Tulsi Ghimire film, ''Darpan Chaya''.''<ref name="Mid-Day 2018-12-16" />''<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2007972/fullcredits \|title= Udit Narayan in Kusume Rumal\|website=]\|date=June 2017}}</ref>

	==~~Some~~ ~~Notable Hindi songs~~ ==		== Discography ==
			{{Main\|List of Hindi songs recorded by Udit Narayan\|Bollywood selected discography of Udit Narayan\|List of non-Hindi songs recorded by Udit Narayan\|}}
	*"Log Jahan Par Rahte Hain" - '']'' (1988)
	*"Papa kehte hai" - '']'' (1988)
	*"Ae Mere humsafar" - '']'' (1988)
	*"Oye Oye" - '']'' (1989)
	*"Mujhe need na aye"- '']'' (1990)
	*"Hum ne ghar chora hai"- '']'' (1990)
	*"Hum payer karne wale"- '']'' (1990)
	*"Mera Dil Tere Liye Dhadakta Hai" - '']'' (1990)
	*"Bin Tere Sanam" - ''Yara Dildara'' (1991)
	*"Imli Ka Boota" - '']'' (1991)
	*"Ilu Ilu" - '']'' (1991)
	*"Ek Doosre Se Karte Hain Pyar Hum" - '']'' (1991)
	*"Pehla Nasha" - '']'' (1992)
	*"Jawani Deewani" - '']'' (1992)
	*"Dhak Dhak Karne laga" - '']'' (1992)
	*"Jadoo teri nazar" - '']'' (1993)
	*"Tu mere samne" - '']'' (1993)
	*"Phoolo sa chera tera" - '']'' (1993)
	*"Tu cheez badi hai mast mast" - '']'' (1994)
	*"Ruk Ja O Dil Deewane" - '']'' (1995)
	*"Ho gaya Hai Tujko To Pyar Sajna" - '']'' (1995)
	*"Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya" - '']'' (1995)
	*"Kya Karen ke na Karen" - '']'' (1995)
	*"Yaroon Sun lo zara" - '']'' (1995)
	*"Pardesi Pardesi" - '']'' (1996)
	*"Aaye Ho Mere Zindagi Mein" - '']'' (1996)
	*"Ho Nahin Sakta" - ''Diljale'' (1996)
	*"Mohabbat Ki Nahi Jati" - '']'' (1997)
	*"Sona Kitna Sona Hai" - '']'' (1997)
	*"Are Re Are" - '']'' (1997)
	*"Dil To Pagal Hai" - '']'' (1997)
	*"Bholi Se Surat" - '']'' (1997)
	*"Le Gayi" - '']'' (1997)
	*"Ishq Hua Kaise Hua" -'']'' (1997)
	*"Chand Chupa" - '']'' (1999)
	*"Taal Se Taal Mila" - '']'' (1999)
	*"Chaha Hai Tujko" - '']'' (1999)
	*"Mera Mann" - '']'' (1999)
	*"Nasha Ye Pyar Ka Nasha" - '']'' (1999)
	*"Khushiyan Aur Gham" - '']'' (1999)
	*"Chaha Hai Tujhko" - '']'' (1999)
	*"Hum Saath-Saath Hain" - ''] (1999)
	*"Chhote Chhote Bhaiyon Ke"" - ''] (1999)
	*"Mhare Hiwda"" - ''] (1999)
	*"Dil Ne Yeh Kaha Hai Dil Se" - '']'' (2000)
	*Chupke Se Sun, Socho Ke Jheelon Ka - ] (2000)
	*"Bole Chudiyan" - '']'' (2001)
	*"Udhja Kaale Kawwa" - '']'' (2001)
	*"Chhalak Chhalak" - '']'' (2002)
	*"Who Chand jasi" - '']'' (2002)
	*Jo Bhi Kasmein - ] (2002)
	*Kitna Bechain Hoke"- ] (2002)
	*Zindagi Ban Gaye Ho Tum"- ] (2002)
	*Koi Mil Gaya - Koi Mil Gaya (2003)
	*Tere Naam - Tere Naam (2003)
	*Tumse milna - Tere Naam (2003)
	*Chand - Tere Naam (2003)
	*Idhar Chala Main Udhar Chala - Koi Mil Gaya (2003)
	*Main Yahan Hoon - Veer Zaara (2004)
	*Aankhen Bandh Kark - ] (2004)
	*Woh Tassawer - ] (2004)
	*Mujhse shaadi karogi - Mujhse shaadi karogi (2004)
	*Lal Dupatta - Mujhse shaadi karogi (2004)
	*Rab Kare - Mujhse shaadi karogi (2004)
	*Aisa des hai mera -Veer Zaara (2004)
	*Yeh hum aa gaye hai kahan - Veer Zaara (2004)
	*Yeh Tara Woh Tara - Swades (2004)
	*Yun Hi Chala Chal - Swades (2004)
	*Kyon Ki - Kyon Ki (2005)
	*Falak Dekhoon - ] (2005)
	*Khaike Paan Banaraswala - Don - The Chase Begins Again (2006)
	*Mujhe Haq hai - Vivah (2006)
	*Milan abhi adha adhura hai- Vivah (2006)
	*Sahana - Sivaji: The Boss (2007)
	*Do U Wanna Partner - ] (2007)
	*Deewangi Deewangi - ] (2007)
	*Falak Tak Chal Saath Meray - ] (2008)
	*Dil Dance Maare - ] (2008)
	*Thean Thean - Kuruvi (2008)
	*Main Hawaon ke - ] (2008)
	*Sau Janam - ] (2009)
	==Awards and Nominations==
	===Padma Shri===

			=== Work with other singers ===
	*2009: ], India's 4th highest civilian honour.<ref>{{cite web \|url= http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200901260321.htm \|title= Aishwarya, Akshay, Helen in Padma Shri list \|accessdate=2009-01-26 \|work= The Hindu \|publisher= ] \|date= }}</ref>
			Udit Narayan career started in 1980 and flourished during 90's. During the huge span of playback singing, other than the duet songs with notable female playback singers, Udit Narayan was fortunate to collaborate with playback singers from all generations. Udit Narayan debuted with legendary singer ] and then got opportunity to share songs with ], ], ], ] and others during 80's. Most of his male duets are with ] & ].Though his best discography songs were duets with singer ].''Khudko kya samjhti ha'', ''mai khiladi tu anari'', ''lagi lagi ye dilka''. Some of the rest selected and notable songs are as follows

			{\| class="wikitable"
	===]===
			\|- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;"
			! Song !! film(s)!! Co-Singers/ (Other Version)
			\|-
			\| "Mil Gaya"
			\| ''Unees-Bees'' (1980)
			\| ] & ]
			\|-
			\| "Jeevan Ke Din"
			\| '']'' (1983)
			\| ] and ] (Other Version)
			\|-
			\| "O Bindiya Tum Humse Keh Do Pyar Hai"
			\| ''Kehdo Pyar Hai'' (1983)
			\| ] and ]
			\|-
			\|"Log Jahan Par Rehte Hain"
			\| '']'' (1988)
			\| ], ] and ]
			\|-
			\|"Oye Oye"
			\| '']'' (1989)
			\| ] & ]
			\|-
			\| "Ek Doosre Se Karte Hain Pyar Hum"
			\| '']'' (1991)
			\| ] and ]
			\|-
			\| "Ilu Ilu"
			\| '']'' (1991)
			\| ], ] and ]
			\|-
			\| "Diwano Ki Mastano Ki"
			\| '']'' (1991)
			\| ] & ]
			\|-
			\| "Dil Le Gayi Teri Bindiya"
			\| '']'' (1992)
			\| ], ] and ]
			\|-
			\| "Saat Samundar Paar (Part-II)"
			\| '']'' (1992)
			\| ] and ]
			\|-
			\|"Deewana Dil Deewana"
			\| '']'' (1994)
			\| ]
			\|-
			\|"Main Khiladi Tu Anari"
			\| '']'' (1994)
			\| ] and ]
			\|-
			\| "Yeh Bandhan Toh"
			\| '']'' (1995)
			\| ] & ]
			\|-
			\|"Ram Jaane"
			\| '']'' (1995)
			\| ] & ]
			\|-
			\| "Very Good Very Bad"
			\| '']'' (1995)
			\| ]
			\|-
			\|"Salma Pe Dil Aa Gaya" (Part 1)
			\| '']'' (1997)
			\| ] & ] : ](Part II)
			\|-
			\|"Koi Jaane Koi Na Jaane"
			\| '']'' (1997)
			\| ] & ]
			\|-
			\|"Neend Churai Meri"
			\| rowspan="2"\|'']'' (1997)
			\| ], ] and ]
			\|-
			\|"Mr. Lova Lova" (Ankhiyaan Tu Mila Le)
			\| ], ], ] & ]
			\|-
			\|"Hum Saath Saath Hain"
			\| '']'' (1999)
			\| ], ], ], ] & ]
			\|-
			\|"Mhare Hiwda"
			\| '']'' (1999)
			\| ], ], ], ] & ]
			\|-
			\|"Sunoji Dulhan"
			\| '']'' (1999)
			\| ], ], ] & Pratima Rao
			\|-
			\| "Dillagi Dillagi"
			\| '']'' (1999)
			\| ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] & ]
			\|-
			\|"Mela Dilon Ka (Part II)"
			\| '']'' (2000)
			\| ], ], ], ], ], ]/(Part I) ], ], ], ] & Anmol
			\|-
			\|"Dil Ne Yeh Kaha Hai Dil Se"
			\| '']'' (2000)
			\| ] & ]
			\|-
			\|"Ghanan Ghanan"
			\| '']'' (2001)
			\| ], ], ] & ]
			\|-
			\| "Mitwa"
			\| '']'' (2001)
			\| Sukhwinder Singh, Alka Yagnik & ]
			\|-
			\|"Main Kahin Bhi Rahoon"
			\| '']'' (2003)
			\| ], ], ] & ]
			\|-
			\|''"Aisa Des Hai Mera"''
			\| '']'' (2004)
			\| ] & ]
			\|-
			\|"Yun Hi Chala Chal"
			\| '']'' (2004)
			\| ] and ]
			\|-
			\|"Deewangi Deewangi"
			\| '']'' (2007)
			\| ], ], & ]
			\|-
			\|"Radha"
			\| '']'' (2012)
			\| ] & ]
			\|-
			\|"]"
			\| '']'' (2013)
			\| ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] & ]
			\|}

			==Awards and nominations==
	] (Won):
			{{main\|List of awards and nominations received by Udit Narayan}}
	*1988: "Papa Kehte Hai" - '']''
			Narayan has won four ] and five ].<ref name="pb" />
	*1995: "Mehndi Lagake Rakhna" - '']''
	*1996: "Pardesi Pardesi" - '']''
	*1999: "Chand Chupa Badal Mein" - '']''
	*2001: "Mitwaa" - '']''

			===Jury member of awards===
	] (Nominated):
			In 2012, Narayan was one of the jury members of the film music jury for the ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.highonscore.com/gima-awards-2012-press-conference\|title=GIMA Awards 2012 :: Press Conference\|website=Highonscore.com\|date=9 August 2012}}</ref> In 2015, he was one of the jury members in ], and the same year he was the judge of the ].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/pooja-bhatt-udit-narayan-to-judge-jagran-film-festival/16324193#sthash.StHpkQDK.dpuf\|title=Pooja Bhatt, Udit Narayan to judge Jagran Film Festival\|website=Mid-day.com\|date=27 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.asiaradiotoday.com/news/mirchi-music-awards-jury-meets-select-winners\|title=Mirchi music awards jury meets to select winners\|website=Asia Radio Today \|date=5 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.asiaradiotoday.com/news/mirchi-music-awards-jury-meets-select-winners#sthash.GtY4D8sd.dpuf\|title=Mirchi music awards jury meets to select winners\|website=Asia Radio Today \|date=5 February 2015}}</ref>
	*1988: "Ae mere Humzafar" - '']''
	*1991: "Koon Dada bod
	*1992: "Pahla Nasha" - '']''
	*1993: "Phoolon Sa Chehra Tera" - '']''
	*1993: "Jado teri nazar" - '']''
	*1994: "Tu Cheez Badi Hai" - '']''
	*1995: "Raja ko rani se" - '']''
	*1996: "Ho Nahin Sakta" - '']''
	*1996: "Ghar Se Nikalte Hi" - '']''
	*1997: "Dil To Pagal Hai" - '']''
	*1997: "Bholi si sorat" - '']''
	*1998: "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai" - '']''
	*2000: "Dil Ne Yeh Kaha" - '']''
	*2001: "Udhja Kaale Kawwa" - '']''
	*2003: "Tere Naam" - '']''
	*2003: "Idhar Chala Main Udhar Chala" - '']''
	*2004: "Main Yahaan Hoon" - '']''
	*2004: "Yeh Tara Woh Tara" - '']''

	===]===		===Civil honours===
			]]]
	]:
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	*2002: "Mitwa" - '']''
			* Prabal Gorkha Dakshina Bahu, Fourth Class of Prestigious ] (Order of Gorkha Right Arm), one of the highest civil honours in Nepal, by the King of Nepal ], 2001<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://thenewyorkcitypost.com/udit-narayan-the-legend/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712063056/http://thenewyorkcitypost.com/udit-narayan-the-legend/\|url-status=usurped\|archive-date=12 July 2015\|title=Udit Narayan Jha Prabal Gorkha Dashina Bahu\|date=June 2017\|website=The New York City Post}}</ref>
	*2003: "Chhote Chhote Sapne" - ''Zindagi Khoobsurat Hai''
			* ] : third highest civil honour from Indian Government, 2016<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/music/udit-narayan-on-padma-bhushan-i-am-speechless-it-feels-like-a-dream\|title=i am speechless :Udit Narayan\|work=]\|date=25 January 2016}}</ref>
	*2005: "Ye Taara Wo Taara" - '']''
			*Madhya Pradesh government's National Lata Mangeshkar Award, 2015{{Citation needed\|date=May 2022}}
			* National Bravery Award from Maharashtra at Raj Bhavan 2016<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://mumbaimessenger.com/governor-of-maharashtra-felicitate-padma-awardees-from-state/\|title=Governor of Maharashtra felicitate Padma Awardees from State \|newspaper=Mumbai Messenger\|date=14 May 2016}}</ref>
			* ] : fourth highest civil honour from Indian Government, 2009<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/musicindia/receiving-padma-shri-is-a-dream-come-true-udit-narayan_21649.html\|title=Receiving Padma Shri is a dream come true: Udit Narayan\|website=Zeenews.india.com\|date=26 January 2009}}</ref>
			* Honoured at Swabhimani Mumbaikar Awards, 2016<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://indianexpress.com/photos/entertainment-gallery/ajay-devgn-kajol-preity-zinta-honoured-at-swabhimani-mumbaikar-awards-2834157/8\|title=Ajay Devgn, Kajol, Preity Zinta honoured at Swabhimani Mumbaikar Awards\|website=Indian Express \|date=4 June 2016}}</ref>
			* Special Jury Salute Award from Radio Mirchi Award, 2016<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/music/news/8th-Mirchi-Music-Awards-Complete-list-of-winners/articleshow/51196008.cms \|title=8th Mirchi Music Awards: Complete list of winners \|work=] \|date=1 March 2016 \|access-date=9 June 2016}}</ref>
			* Receiving the Kishore Kumar Memorial Award for Music from S. Krishna Kumar<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.priyadarshniacademy.com/4-ann-global-awards/photo-gallery/4-global-awards1.html\|title=Udit Narayan receives Kishore Kumare Memorial Award\|publisher=Priyadarshin Academy \|access-date=15 February 2022}}</ref>
			* Dr. Ambedkar Awards in Mumbai, 2015<ref>{{cite news \|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/events/mumbai/Celebrities-attend-Dr-Ambedkar-awards-in-Mumbai/articleshow/46930714.cms?from=mdr \|title=Celebrities attend Dr Ambedkar awards in Mumbai \|last=Maheshwri \|first=Neha \|newspaper=] \|date=15 April 2015 \|access-date=9 June 2016}}</ref>
			* Awarded for his exceptional performance Bhojpuri industry, 2015<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bhojpuri/movies/news/Udit-Narayan-Deepa-awarded/articleshow/46021861.cms \|title=Udit Narayan- Deepa awarded \|newspaper=] \|date=28 January 2015 \|access-date=9 June 2016}}</ref>
			* Received BIFA awards, 2015<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.defimedia.info/defi-quotidien/dq-magazine/item/74214-bifa-2015-une-ode-a-l-industrie-cinematographique-indienne.html \|title=BIFA 2015 : Une ode à l'industrie cinématographique indienne \|trans-title=BIFA 2015: An ode to the Indian film industry \|last=Léon \|first=Thierry \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923221758/http://www.defimedia.info/defi-quotidien/dq-magazine/item/74214-bifa-2015-une-ode-a-l-industrie-cinematographique-indienne.html \|language=fr \|publisher=] \|archive-date=23 September 2015 \|access-date=9 June 2016 \|url-status=dead }}</ref>
			* 1st, Chitragupta Cineyatra Film Award, 2015
			* Maharashtra Ratna Awards from Government of Maharashtra 2011<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.in.com/videos/watchvideo-udit-narayan-honoured-with-maharashtra-ratan-award-udit-narayan-99467419.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725133557/http://www.in.com/videos/watchvideo-udit-narayan-honoured-with-maharashtra-ratan-award-udit-narayan-99467419.html\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=25 July 2015\|title=Udit Narayan Honoured With MAHARASHTRA RATAN AWARD Udit Narayan\|website=In.com}}</ref>
			* First Mohammed Rafi award, 2010<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/1194349/Udit-Narayan-wins-first-Mohammed-Rafi-award\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216193842/http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/1194349/Udit-Narayan-wins-first-Mohammed-Rafi-award\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=16 February 2015\|title=Udit Narayan wins first Mohammed Rafi award\|author=\|work=Bollywood Hungama\|date=28 January 2010}}</ref>
			* 2nd Medscape India National Awards<ref> {{dead link\|date=February 2022}}</ref>
			* Chitragupta Cineyatra Samman for Bhojpuri Cinema, 2015
			* Received Samrat Vikramaditya Sangeet Alankaran Samman, 2006<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/nm7/udit-narayan-to-be-feted-on-march-28/article1-71797.aspx \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707133030/http://www.hindustantimes.com/nm7/udit-narayan-to-be-feted-on-march-28/article1-71797.aspx \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=7 July 2015 \|title=Udit Narayan to be feted on March 28 \|newspaper=]\|date=6 March 2006 }}</ref>
			* ] ] 2021 for his contribution to Indian music<ref>{{Cite web \|date=26 November 2021 \|title=Hargun receives SurJyotsna award : The Tribune India \|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/amritsar/hargun-receives-surjyotsna-award-226387 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211126045800/https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/amritsar/hargun-receives-surjyotsna-award-226387 \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=2021-11-26 \|access-date=19 December 2024 }}</ref>

	===]===		===Outstanding honours and awards===
			* Big Entertainment Award 2017 Udit Narayan won the 92.7FM Suhana Safar Legend Award<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bollywoodlife.com/news-gossip/big-zee-entertainment-awards-2017-winners-list-alia-bhatt-shahid-kapoor-aishwarya-rai-bachchan-sushant-singh-rajput-are-the-big-winners-of-the-night\|title=Big Zee Entertainment Awards 2017 winners list: Alia Bhatt, Shahid Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Sushant Singh Rajput are the big winners of the night \|website=Bollywood Life \|date=19 August 2017\|access-date=26 October 2018}}</ref>
	]:
			* ] 2016 Jury Special Salute<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.allmoviesonglyrics.in/2016/03/8th-mirchi-music-awards-2016-complete-winner-list.html\|title=8th Mirchi Music Awards 2016 - Complete Winner List - Zee TV\|website=Allmoviesonglyrics.in\|date=14 March 2016 \|access-date=26 October 2018}}</ref>
	*1996: "Aye Ho Meri Zindagi Mein" - '']''
	*2002: "Woh Chand Jaisi Ladki" - '']''

	===]===		===International honours and awards===
			* International Brandlaureate Personality Award from Malaysia, 2011<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/music/news/adnan-honoured-with-international-brandlaureate-personality-award/articleshow/18762186.cms\|title=Adnan honoured with International Brandlaureate Personality Award \|newspaper=]\|access-date=15 February 2022}}</ref>
	]:
	*2000: "Chand Chupa Badal Mein" - '']''

			=== Lifetime achievement awards ===
	===]===
			* Lifetime Achievement Award from Kalashri Award, 2010<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/laila-o-laila/article512733.ece\|title=Laila O Laila\|date=13 July 2010\|newspaper=]\|last1=Iyer\|first1=Aruna V.}}</ref>
	]:
			* Sahara ] Awardee, 2006
	*2000: "Chand Chupa Badal Mein" - '']''
			* Lifetime Achievement Award from Suryadatta National Awards, 2016<ref> {{dead link\|date=February 2022}}</ref>

			==See also==
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Indian playback singer

Udit Narayan
Udit Narayan in 2017
Born	Udit Narayan Jha (1955-12-01) 1 December 1955 (age 69) Baisi, Supaul district, Bihar, India
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus, Tribhuvan University
Occupation	Playback singer
Years active	1980–present
Spouses	Ranjana Jha (m. 1984; sep.) Deepa Gahatraj (m. 1985)
Children	Aditya Narayan
Relatives	Shweta Agarwal (daughter-in-law)
Awards	Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer IIFA Award for Best Male Playback Singer Lata Mangeshkar Award National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer
Honours	Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu (2001) Padma Shri (2009) Padma Bhushan (2016)
Musical career
Genres	Filmi pop Semi-Classical Bhajan folk
Instrument	Vocals
Labels	Yash Raj Films T-Series SKS Music Company Sony Music Sony BMG HMV Records Tips Saregama Venus
Musical artist

Udit Narayan Jha (born 1 December 1955) is an Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured mainly in Hindi films. He has also sung in various other languages including Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali, Sindhi, Odia, Bhojpuri, Nepali, Malayalam, Assamese, Bagheli and Maithili. He has won four National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards with twenty nominations among many others. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2009 and the Padma Bhushan in 2016 for his contribution towards arts and culture. As many as 21 of his tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time".

He got to sing with Mohammed Rafi in his Hindi playback debut in Unees-Bees in 1980 and also with Kishore Kumar in the 1980s. He finally made his mark in the 1988 film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak starring Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla, his song "Papa Kehte Hain" was his notable performance which earned him his first Filmfare Award in the 1980s and he established himself in Bollywood Playback Singing. The soundtrack became one of the highest selling albums in the 1980s. The soundtrack was a breakthrough for the careers of Anand–Milind, as well as T-Series, one of India's leading record labels. after which he was one of the favourites of music directors. In the 1990s he sung for a thousands of songs including Hindi and Nepali languages.

Recognising his contribution, the King of Nepal Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev honoured him with the Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu in 2001 after his contribution to Indian cinema and music, and Chitragupta Cineyatra Samman 2015 for his contribution towards Bhojpuri cinema. He is the only male singer in the history of the Filmfare Awards to have won in over three decades (the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s).

Early life

Udit Narayan Jha was born on 1 December 1955 in an ethnic Maithil Brahmin family to Harekrishna Jha, a Nepalese national, and Bhuvaneshwari Jha, an Indian national. In 2009, when Narayan was awarded India's fourth highest civilian honour Padma Shri, there were reports questioning his Indian citizenship, claiming that he was born in Nepal. However, Udit Narayan himself branded these reports as "completely false", and stated that he was born in the Baisi village of Supaul district in Bihar at his maternal grandparents' home near the India-Nepal border. When his acceptance of the Padma Shri led to his criticism in Nepal, he told the Nepalese daily Kantipur that he was "from Nepal but his mother's home was in Bihar." In a 2017 interview with the Indian magazine Outlook, he clarified that he was born in Baisi, and clarified that his father Harekrishna was a native of Bhardaha, Saptari District, Sagarmatha Zone (present-day Madhesh Province), Nepal on the border with India. In September 2018, Udit Narayan revealed at a ceremony held by the Bihar Jharkhand Association of North America, that he identifies as a Bihari.

Narayan studied at Jageshwar High School, Kunauli, Supaul, Bihar, India, where he finished his SSC and later obtained his intermediate degree from Ratna Rajya Lakshmi Campus of Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal. His father Harekrishna Jha was a farmer and his mother Bhuvneshwari Devi was a folk singer who encouraged his career.

Personal life

In 2006, Ranjana Narayan claimed to be Narayan's first wife, but Narayan consistently denied it. Later, he accepted her as his wife and promised to provide for her maintenance. Narayan has been married twice, first to Ranjana Narayan Jha and then to Deepa Gahatraj. He began his relationship with Deepa Gahatraj while he was still married to Ranjana Narayan. Narayan and Deepa were married in 1985. With Deepa Gahatraj, he has one son, Aditya Narayan, who is also a playback singer.

Career

Narayan is one of the most prominent singers of Bollywood throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. He has been the on-screen singing voice for various Bollywood stars. He has sung for Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Dev Anand, Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn. Most of his duets are with Alka Yagnik. He began his career in 1970 as a Maithili folk singer (staff artist) for Radio Nepal, singing mostly popular folk songs in Maithili and Nepali. Gradually, he started singing modern Nepali songs. After eight years, Narayan moved to Bombay on a musical scholarship for Nepalese from the Indian Embassy in Nepal to study classical music at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan.

Narayan started his Bollywood career in 1980 when he was noted by music director Rajesh Roshan, who asked Narayan to playback sing for the Hindi film Unees-Bees. Narayan was given the opportunity to sing with the singer Mohammed Rafi. He sang for Devanand a couplet in Swami Dada.His first duet was in the film Sannata. Soon after, Narayan sang for a number of other films, including Bade Dil Wala in 1983, where he sang a duet with senior singer Lata Mangeshkar, composed by senior music director R. D. Burman. In the same year, Narayan sang with Kishore Kumar in the film Kehdo Pyar Hai. Another singer he sang with was Suresh Wadkar with music composed by Bappi Lahiri. A significant milestone in his career occurred in 1988 when Anand–Milind gave him the opportunity to sing all the songs for the Bollywood film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, with Alka Yagnik, which earned him a Filmfare Award. In a 2014 interview with The Times of India, Narayan said: "The song I've sung, "Manzilein", is the best song of my career after "Pehla Nasha", which gave me superstardom!". Narayan remained prolific through the 2000s, singing numbers in films such as Pukar, Dhadkan, Lagaan, Devdas and Veer-Zaara.

In 2002, Narayan sang "Bairi Piya" with newcomer Shreya Ghoshal, from the film Devdas, of which Rediff.com mentioned: "Narayan successfully captures the eternal romanticism of Devdas". In 2014, Narayan sang a song titled "Naa Hum Jo Kah De" along with Shreya Ghoshal, for the album Women's Day Special: Spreading Melodies Everywhere. The song was composed by Ram Shankar and penned by A. K. Mishra.

He competed with his closest professional rival Kumar Sanu who won five consecutive Filmfare awards in the 1990s.

Narayan's work has been praised by his contemporaries Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurthy and music director Ankit Tiwari. Mid-Day included him in the list of notable 90s playback singers. Narayan is considered one of the most prominent singers of his generation.

Other work

Narayan's friend Jiyand Nawab Deedag suggested he change his work from old to modern in order to be selected as a playback singer, but this did not work and, considering old films in 1973, Narayan sang a song for a Nepali film called Sindoor. This was a comedy song for the Nepali comedians GopalRaj Mainali (Chankhe) and Basundhara Bhushal (Nakkali). Narayan sang this song with Sushma Shrestha, now known as Poornima in Hindi films. Narayan has also acted in two Nepali films – Kusume Rumal and Pirati in 1985. In 2004, he released his first non-movie Nepalese album, Upahaar, in which he sang duets with his wife Deepa Jha. Narayan has many solo albums as well, such as Bhajan Sangam, Bhajan Vatika, I Love You, Dil Deewana, Yeh Dosti, Love is Life, Jaanam,Jhumka de Jhumka, Sona No Ghadulo, Dhuli Ganga and Ma Tarini.

Narayan has performed in many stage shows in India and abroad and is the recipient of many awards. These include Screen Videocon Award, MTV Best Video Award and Pride of India Gold Award. In 2010, Narayan with Madhushree sang for the English independent film When Harry Tries to Marry.

Narayan also sang the title song for the TV show Yeh Duniyan Gazab Ki, with Kumar Sanu. In 2015 he was involved in a mega series campaign Melancholy, where 421 Nepali artists had sung a 33 minutes 49-second long environmental song, in which 365 artists set a Guinness World Record on 19 May 2016 at Radio Nepal Studio, Singhadurbar, Kathamandu. It is written, composed and directed by environmentalist Nipesh DHAKA.

Television

Narayan was on the panel of judges of Indian Idol 3 in 2007 with music composer Anu Malik and playback singer Alisha Chinai on Sony TV.

Narayan was on the panel of judges on Sony TV for Waar Parriwar, a reality show based on the bringing together of a singing gharana (family of singers). He shared judging duties with fellow playback singer Kumar Sanu and Jatin Pandit of the music duo Jatin–Lalit.

Narayan has appeared on Jo Jeeta Wohi Super Star and Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs as a guest. In mid May 2024, he appeared as guest in Colors TV's Mangal Lakshmi for Kartik and Lakshmi's Sangeet caremony.

As an actor

Udit Narayan Jha acted in and sang all the songs in a 1985 Nepali film called Kusume Rumal which is one of the All Time Classics in Nepali film industry starring himself with Bhuwan K.C. and Tripti Nadakar, which spent 25 weeks on the box office top ten list and became the highest-grossing Nepalese film of all time until overtaken in 2001 by another Tulsi Ghimire film, Darpan Chaya.

Discography

Main articles: List of Hindi songs recorded by Udit Narayan, Bollywood selected discography of Udit Narayan, and List of non-Hindi songs recorded by Udit Narayan

Work with other singers

Udit Narayan career started in 1980 and flourished during 90's. During the huge span of playback singing, other than the duet songs with notable female playback singers, Udit Narayan was fortunate to collaborate with playback singers from all generations. Udit Narayan debuted with legendary singer Mohammad Rafi and then got opportunity to share songs with Kishore Kumar, Amit Kumar, Suresh Wadkar, Mohammad Aziz and others during 80's. Most of his male duets are with Kumar Sanu & Abhijeet.Though his best discography songs were duets with singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya.Khudko kya samjhti ha, mai khiladi tu anari, lagi lagi ye dilka. Some of the rest selected and notable songs are as follows

Song	film(s)	Co-Singers/ (Other Version)
"Mil Gaya"	Unees-Bees (1980)	Mohammed Rafi & Usha Mangeshkar
"Jeevan Ke Din"	Bade Dil Wala (1983)	Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar (Other Version)
"O Bindiya Tum Humse Keh Do Pyar Hai"	Kehdo Pyar Hai (1983)	Kishore Kumar and Suresh Wadkar
"Log Jahan Par Rehte Hain"	Pyaar Ka Mandir (1988)	Mohammad Aziz, Suresh Wadkar and Kavita Krishnamurthy
"Oye Oye"	Tridev (1989)	Amit Kumar & Mohammad Aziz
"Ek Doosre Se Karte Hain Pyar Hum"	Hum (1991)	Sudesh Bhosle and Mohammad Aziz
"Ilu Ilu"	Saudagar (1991)	Manhar Udhas, Sukhwinder Singh and Kavita Krishnamurthy
"Diwano Ki Mastano Ki"	Dancer (1991)	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam & Kavita Krishnamurthy
"Dil Le Gayi Teri Bindiya"	Vishwatma (1992)	Amit Kumar, Sapna Mukherjee and Mohammad Aziz
"Saat Samundar Paar (Part-II)"	Vishwatma (1992)	Sadhana Sargam and Jolly Mukherjee
"Deewana Dil Deewana"	Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (1994)	Amit Kumar
"Main Khiladi Tu Anari"	Main Khiladi Tu Anari (1994)	Abhijeet Bhattacharya and Anu Malik
"Yeh Bandhan Toh"	Karan Arjun (1995)	Kumar Sanu & Alka Yagnik
"Ram Jaane"	Ram Jaane (1995)	Sonu Nigam & Alka Yagnik
"Very Good Very Bad"	Trimurti (1995)	Vinod Rathod
"Salma Pe Dil Aa Gaya" (Part 1)	Salma Pe Dil Aa Gaya (1997)	Asha Bhosle & Amit Kumar : Kumar Sanu(Part II)
"Koi Jaane Koi Na Jaane"	Aur Pyar Ho Gaya (1997)	Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Anuradha Paudwal
"Neend Churai Meri"	Ishq (1997)	Kumar Sanu, Kavita Krishnamurthy and Alka Yagnik
"Mr. Lova Lova" (Ankhiyaan Tu Mila Le)	Ishq (1997)	Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Sudesh Bhosle, Kavita Krishnamurthy & Poornima
"Hum Saath Saath Hain"	Hum Saath Saath Hain (1999)	Kumar Sanu, Anuradha Paudwal, Hariharan, Kavita Krishnamurthy & Alka Yagnik
"Mhare Hiwda"	Hum Saath Saath Hain (1999)	Hariharan, Anuradha Paudwal, Kumar Sanu, Kavita Krishnamurthy & Alka Yagnik
"Sunoji Dulhan"	Hum Saath Saath Hain (1999)	Roop Kumar Rathod, Sonu Nigam, Kavita Krishnamurthy & Pratima Rao
"Dillagi Dillagi"	Dillagi (1999)	Abhijeet, Sonu Nigam, Sukhwinder Singh, Shankar Mahadevan, Shaan, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Alka Yagnik, Jaspinder Narula & Mahalaxmi Iyer
"Mela Dilon Ka (Part II)"	Mela (2000)	Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik, Sadhana Sargam, Hema Sardesai, Mansoor/(Part I) Roop Kumar Rathod, Shankar Mahadevan, Jaspinder Narula, Nitin Mukesh & Anmol
"Dil Ne Yeh Kaha Hai Dil Se"	Dhadkan (2000)	Alka Yagnik & Kumar Sanu
"Ghanan Ghanan"	Lagaan (2001)	Sukhwinder Singh, Alka Yagnik, Shankar Mahadevan & Shaan
"Mitwa"	Lagaan (2001)	Sukhwinder Singh, Alka Yagnik & Srinivas
"Main Kahin Bhi Rahoon"	LOC Kargil (2003)	Hariharan, Roop Kumar Rathod, Sonu Nigam & Sukhwinder Singh
"Aisa Des Hai Mera"	Veer-Zaara (2004)	Lata Mangeshkar & Gurdas Maan
"Yun Hi Chala Chal"	Swades (2004)	Kailash Kher and Hariharan
"Deewangi Deewangi"	Om Shanti Om (2007)	Shaan, Shreya Ghoshal, & Sunidhi Chauhan
"Radha"	Student of the Year (2012)	Shreya Ghoshal & Vishal Dadlani
"Apna Bombay Talkies"	Bombay Talkies (2013)	Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik, Abhijeet, Sadhana Sargam, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Shaan, Sunidhi Chauhan, KK, Shreya Ghoshal, Sukhwinder Singh, Shilpa Rao, Mohit Chauhan & Sonu Nigam

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Udit Narayan

Narayan has won four National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards.

Jury member of awards

In 2012, Narayan was one of the jury members of the film music jury for the Global Indian Music Academy Awards In 2015, he was one of the jury members in Mirchi Music Awards, and the same year he was the judge of the Jagran Film Festival.

Civil honours

Prabal Gorkha Dakshina Bahu, Fourth Class of Prestigious Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu (Order of Gorkha Right Arm), one of the highest civil honours in Nepal, by the King of Nepal Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, 2001
Padma Bhushan : third highest civil honour from Indian Government, 2016
Madhya Pradesh government's National Lata Mangeshkar Award, 2015
National Bravery Award from Maharashtra at Raj Bhavan 2016
Padma Shri : fourth highest civil honour from Indian Government, 2009
Honoured at Swabhimani Mumbaikar Awards, 2016
Special Jury Salute Award from Radio Mirchi Award, 2016
Receiving the Kishore Kumar Memorial Award for Music from S. Krishna Kumar
Dr. Ambedkar Awards in Mumbai, 2015
Awarded for his exceptional performance Bhojpuri industry, 2015
Received BIFA awards, 2015
1st, Chitragupta Cineyatra Film Award, 2015
Maharashtra Ratna Awards from Government of Maharashtra 2011
First Mohammed Rafi award, 2010
2nd Medscape India National Awards
Chitragupta Cineyatra Samman for Bhojpuri Cinema, 2015
Received Samrat Vikramaditya Sangeet Alankaran Samman, 2006
Lokmat Sur Jyotsna National Music Award 2021 for his contribution to Indian music

Outstanding honours and awards

Big Entertainment Award 2017 Udit Narayan won the 92.7FM Suhana Safar Legend Award
Mirchi Music Awards 2016 Jury Special Salute

International honours and awards

International Brandlaureate Personality Award from Malaysia, 2011

Lifetime achievement awards

Lifetime Achievement Award from Kalashri Award, 2010
Sahara Awadh Samman Awardee, 2006
Lifetime Achievement Award from Suryadatta National Awards, 2016

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External links

Udit Narayan at IMDb
Udit Narayan on Facebook

v t e Recipients of Padma Shri in Art
1950s	Omkarnath Thakur (1955) Sthanam Narasimha Rao (1956) Sudhir Khastgir (1957) Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu (1957) Debaki Bose (1958) Shambhu Maharaj (1958) Nargis (1958) Satyajit Ray (1958) Devika Rani (1958)
1960s	K. K. Hebbar (1961) Bismillah Khan (1961) Raghunath Krishna Phadke (1961) Ashok Kumar (1962) Mehboob Khan (1963) Melville de Mellow (1963) Vinayak Pandurang Karmarkar (1964) Adi Pherozeshah Marzban (1964) P. C. Sorcar (1964) Guru Kunchu Kurup (1965) V. Nagayya (1965) Ravishankar Raval (1965) Mrinalini Sarabhai (1965) Sivaji Ganesan (1966) M. F. Husain (1966) Sumitra Charat Ram (1966) P. Bhanumathi (1966) Daji Bhatawadekar (1967) Vasant Desai (1967) Siddheshwari Devi (1967) Mohammed Rafi (1967) Sashadhar Mukherjee (1967) Vinjamuri Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha Rao (1967) M. R. Acharekar (1968) Begum Akhtar (1968) Sharan Rani Backliwal (1968) Nikhil Banerjee (1968) Sunil Dutt (1968) Durga Khote (1968) Yamini Krishnamurthy (1968) Shankar–Jaikishan (1968) Ayodhya Prasad (1968) Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1968) N. T. Rama Rao (1968) Devi Lal Samar (1968) Vyjayanthimala (1968) Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1969) David Abraham Cheulkar (1969) N. S. Bendre (1969) S. D. Burman (1969) B. Saroja Devi (1969) Indrani Rahman (1969) Balraj Sahni (1969) S. N. Swamy (artist) (1969)
1970s	Sukumar Bose (1970) Prem Dhawan (1970) Ratna Fabri (1970) Gemini Ganesan (1970) Ritwik Ghatak (1970) Damayanti Joshi (1970) Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan (1970) Karl Jamshed Khandalavala (1970) Madhaviah Krishnan (1970) Rajendra Kumar (1970) Pankaj Mullick (1970) Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair (1970) Relangi (1970) Gummadi (1970) Vijay Raghav Rao (1970) V. Satyanarayana Sarma (1970) Maisnam Amubi Singh (1970) K. B. Sundarambal (1970) Avinash Vyas (1970) M. Balamuralikrishna (1971) Sankho Chaudhuri (1971) Manna Dey (1971) Tripti Mitra (1971) Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair (1971) Chenganoor Raman Pillai (1971) K. N. Dandayudhapani Pillai (1971) Shanta Rao (1971) Ravi (1971) Sahir Ludhianvi (1971) Siyaram Tiwari (musician) (1971) Chiranjeet Chakraborty (1972) Girija Devi (1972) Vasudeo S. Gaitonde (1972) Sunil Janah (1972) Lalgudi Jayaraman (1972) Bhimsen Joshi (1972) Mahendra Kapoor (1972) Ram Kumar (artist) (1972) Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1972) Vazhuvoor Ramaiah Pillai (1972) Samta Prasad (1972) M. K. Radha (1972) Raghu Rai (1972) Krishna Reddy (1972) Waheeda Rehman (1972) Juthika Roy (1972) Suchitra Sen (1972) Gubbi Veeranna (1972) Sitara Devi (1973) T. N. Krishnan (1973) Kishan Maharaj (1973) Ramanathapuram C. S. Murugabhoopathy (1973) Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair (1973) Uma Sharma (1973) S. G. Thakur Singh (1973) Kaifi Azmi (1974) Pushkar Bhan (1974) Mani Madhava Chakyar (1974) Bindhyabasini Devi (1974) Naina Devi (1974) Girish Karnad (1974) Shriram Lagoo (1974) Kelucharan Mohapatra (1974) Nutan (1974) M. D. Ramanathan (1974) Som Nath Sadhu (1974) Emani Sankara Sastry (1974) Kripal Singh Shekhawat (1974) Manik Varma (1974) M. S. Gopalakrishnan (1975) Jasraj (1975) Amjad Ali Khan (1975) Gopi Krishna (1975) Sanjukta Panigrahi (1975) Basavaraj Rajguru (1975) Kalyanam Raghuramayya (1975) M. S. Sathyu (1975) K. G. Subramanyan (1975) Gitchandra Tongbra (1975) K. J. Yesudas (1975) Shyam Benegal (1976) Raghunath Mohapatra (1976) Ram Narayan (1976) K. V. Narayanaswamy (1976) R. Nagendra Rao (1976) S. Somasundaram (1976) Parveen Sultana (1976) Dhanraj Bhagat (1977) Bhupen Hazarika (1977) Sheik Chinna Moulana (1977) Alla Rakha (1977) Jehangir Sabavala (1977) Ghulam Rasool Santosh (1977)
1980s	B. V. Karanth (1981) Namagiripettai Krishnan (1981) Gambhir Singh Mura (1981) Dashrath Patel (1981) S. H. Raza (1981) Padma Subrahmanyam (1981) Allah Jilai Bai (1982) Ammannur Madhava Chakyar (1982) Jabbar Patel (1982) Virendra Prabhakar (1982) Gautam Vaghela (1982) Sirkazhi Govindarajan (1983) Gautam Vaghela (1982) Sirkazhi Govindarajan (1983) Sharafat Hussain Khan (1983) Nepal Mahata (1983) Handel Manuel (1983) Gulam Mohammed Sheikh (1983) Raghubir Singh (1983) Sobha Singh (1983) Habib Tanvir (1983) Ganga Devi (1984) Amitabh Bachchan (1984) Purushottam Das (1984) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1984) Bhupen Khakhar (1984) Ben Kingsley (1984) Vinay Chandra Maudgalya (1984) Roshan Kumari (1984) Mavelikara Krishnankutty Nair (1984) N. Rajam (1984) Raja and Radha Reddy (1984) Nek Chand (1984) Ram Gopal Vijayvargiya (1984) Shanti Dave (1985) Asa Singh Mastana (1985) Laxman Pai (1985) Smita Patil (1985) Palghat R. Raghu (1985) Naseeruddin Shah (1985) Shankar Bapu Apegaonkar (1986) Kanika Banerjee (1986) Subrata Mitra (1986) Rajkumar Singhajit Singh (1986) Hisam-ud-din Usta (1986) K. Balachander (1987) Kumudini Lakhia (1987) Vijaya Mehta (1987) N. Ramani (1987) Aparna Sen (1987) Naresh Sohal (1987) Jitendra Abhisheki (1988) Shabana Azmi (1988) Teejan Bai (1988) Bikash Bhattacharjee (1988) Zakir Hussain (1988) Chindodi Leela (1988) Sudharani Raghupathy (1988) Sudarshan Sahoo (1988) Kudrat Singh (1988) Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (1988) Jitendra Abhisheki (1988) Adyar K. Lakshman (1989) Haku Shah (1989) L. Subramaniam (1989) Ratan Thiyam (1989) Upendra Trivedi (1989)
1990s	Mohan Agashe (1990) G. Aravindan (1990) Prabha Atre (1990) Asgari Bai (1990) Gulab Bai (1990) Balwantrai Bhatt (1990) Diwaliben Bhil (1990) Raj Bisaria (1990) S. M. Ganapathy (1990) Kamal Haasan (1990) Bishamber Khanna (1990) Krishen Khanna (1990) Allu Ramalingaiah (1990) Tarun Majumdar (1990) Madhavi Mudgal (1990) Om Puri (1990) Kanak Rele (1990) Leela Samson (1990) Maharajapuram Santhanam (1990) Kapila Vatsyayan (1990) Ranbir Singh Bisht (1991) Bharat Gopy (1991) Ghulam Mustafa Khan (1991) Hafeez Ahmed Khan (1991) Shanno Khurana (1991) Pratima Barua Pandey (1991) Manu Parekh (1991) Shivkumar Sharma (1991) Gurcharan Singh (painter) (1991) Sharda Sinha (1991) Alarmel Valli (1991) Jaya Bachchan (1992) Pankaj Charan Das (1992) Biren De (1992) Srirangam Gopalaratnam (1992) Sabri Khan (1992) Sunita Kohli (1992) Madurai N. Krishnan (1992) Manoj Kumar (1992) Meera Mukherjee (1992) Asha Parekh (1992) Nataraja Ramakrishna (1992) Bhagaban Sahu (1992) Anandji Virji Shah (1992) Kalyanji Virji Shah (Kalyanji-Anandji) (1992) Sundari K. Shridharani (1992) Tapan Sinha (1992) Muthiah Sthapati (1992) K. Viswanath (1992) Chitra Visweswaran (1992) Dipali Barthakur (1998) Mammootty (1998) Kunja Bihari Meher (1998) Krishnarao Sable (1998) Zohra Sehgal (1998) K. Ibomcha Sharma (1998) U. Srinivas (1998) Javed Akhtar (1999) Saryu Doshi (1999) Sulochana Latkar (1999) Sumati Mutatkar (1999) Shobha Deepak Singh (1999) Jagmohan Sursagar (1999) Ram V. Sutar (1999)
2000s	Kanhai Chitrakar (2000) Shekhar Kapur (2000) Hema Malini (2000) Anjolie Ela Menon (2000) Shubha Mudgal (2000) Alyque Padamsee (2000) A. R. Rahman (2000) Ramanand Sagar (2000) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (2001) Aamir Raza Husain (2001) Padmaja Phenany Joglekar (2001) Mohammed Tayab Khan (2001) Sunil Kothari (2001) Nerella Venu Madhav (2001) Mohanlal (2001) Shobha Naidu (2001) D. V. S. Raju (2001) Avadhanam Sita Raman (2001) Siramdasu Venkata Rama Rao (2001) Thota Tharani (2001) W. D. Amaradeva (2002) Raj Begum (2002) Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (2002) Pushpa Bhuyan (2002) Rajan Devadas (2002) Darshana Jhaveri (2002) Abdul Latif Khan (2002) Mani Krishnaswami (2002) Fazal Mohammad (2002) Manorama (2002) Govind Nihalani (2002) Mani Ratnam (2002) Kiran Segal (2002) Navaneetham Padmanabha Seshadri (2002) Saroja Vaidyanathan (2002) T. H. Vinayakram (2002) Jahnu Barua (2003) Danny Denzongpa (2003) Kshetrimayum Ongbi Thouranisabi Devi (2003) Rita Ganguly (2003) Ranjana Gauhar (2003) Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar (2003) Rakhee Gulzar (2003) Nemi Chandra Jain (2003) O. P. Jain (2003) Aamir Khan (2003) Shafaat Ahmed Khan (2003) T. M. Soundararajan (2003) Sukumari (2003) Satish Vyas (2003) Bharathiraja (2004) Maguni Charan Das (2004) Manoranjan Das (2004) D. K. Datar (2004) Kadri Gopalnath (2004) Hariharan (singer) (2004) Purshottam Das Jalota (2004) Krishn Kanhai (2004) Heisnam Kanhailal (2004) Anupam Kher (2004) Sikkil Sisters – Kunjumani & Neela (2004) Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair (2004) Sudha Ragunathan (2004) Haridwaramangalam A. K. Palanivel (2004) Veernala Jayarama Rao (2004) Bharati Shivaji (2004) Singh Bandhu (2004) Bhajan Sopori (2004) Neyyattinkara Vasudevan (2004) Muzaffar Ali (2005) Shameem Dev Azad (2005) M. Boyer (2005) K. S. Chithra (2005) Yumlembam Gambhini Devi (2005) Shah Rukh Khan (2005) Ghulam Sadiq Khan (2005) Kavita Krishnamurti (2005) Chaturbhuj Meher (2005) Kumkum Mohanty (2005) Punaram Nishad (2005) Kedar Nath Sahoo (2005) Sougaijam Thanil Singh (2005) Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan (2005) Komala Varadan (2005) Wadali Brothers (2005) Ileana Citaristi (2006) Mehmood Dhaulpuri (2006) Shree Lal Joshi (2006) Surinder Kaur (2006) Rashid Khan (musician) (2006) Vasundhara Komkali (2006) Yashodhar Mathpal (2006) Madhup Mudgal (2006) Kavungal Chathunni Panicker (2006) Shyama Charan Pati (2006) Gayatri Sankaran (2006) Prasad Sawkar (2006) Aribam Syam Sharma (2006) Shobana (2006) Kanaka Srinivasan (2006) Pankaj Udhas (2006) Mohan Babu (2007) Geeta Chandran (2007) Astad Deboo (2007) Neelamani Devi (2007) Remo Fernandes (2007) P. Gopinathan (2007) Pushpa Hans (2007) Shanti Hiranand (2007) Ananda Shankar Jayant (2007) Govardhan Kumari (2007) Sonam Tshering Lepcha (2007) Balachandra Menon (2007) Shashikala (2007) Gajendra Narayan Singh (2007) Thingbaijam Babu Singh (2007) Pannuru Sripathy (2007) Valayapatti A. R. Subramaniam (2007) Waman Thakre (2007) P. R. Thilagam (2007) Tom Alter (2008) Moozhikkulam Kochukuttan Chakyar (2008) Jonnalagadda Gurappa Chetty (2008) Meenakshi Chitharanjan (2008) Madhuri Dixit Nene (2008) Kekoo Gandhy (2008) Helen Giri Syiem (2008) Jatin Goswami (2008) Hans Raj Hans (2008) Sabitri Heisnam (2008) Gokulotsavji Maharaj (2008) P. K. Narayanan Nambiar (2008) Gennadi Mikhailovich Pechinkov (2008) Gangadhar Pradhan (2008) M. Night Shyamalan (2008) Sirkazhi G. Sivachidambaram (2008) Jawahar Wattal (2008) Ameena Ahmad Ahuja (2009) Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (2009) Hemi Bawa (2009) Brahmanandam (2009) Devayani (dancer) (2009) Suresh Dutta (2009) Kalamandalam Gopi (2009) Niranjan Goswami (2009) Geeta Kapur (2009) Nirmal Singh Khalsa (2009) Hashmat Ullah Khan (2009) Helen (2009) S. Krishnaswamy (2009) Akshay Kumar (2009) Iravatham Mahadevan (2009) Hridaynath Mangeshkar (2009) Penaz Masani (2009) Shaoli Mitra (2009) Udit Narayan (2009) Govind Ram Nirmalkar (2009) Leela Omchery (2009) Pratapaditya Pal (2009) Aruna Sairam (2009) Mattannoor Sankarankutty (2009) Kumar Sanu (2009) Kiran Seth (2009) Gurumayum Gourakishor Sharma (2009) Skendrowell Syiemlieh (2009) Thilakan (2009) K. P. Udayabhanu (2009) Vivek (actor) (2009)
2010s	Gul Bardhan (2010) Carmel Berkson (2010) Wasifuddin Dagar (2010) Haobam Ongbi Ngangbi Devi (2010) Nemai Ghosh (2010) Sumitra Guha (2010) Ulhas Kashalkar (2010) Saif Ali Khan (2010) Mukund Lath (2010) Ram Dayal Munda (2010) Arundathi Nag (2010) Raghunath Panigrahi (2010) Resul Pookutty (2010) Arjun Prajapati (2010) Rajkumar Achouba Singh (2010) Shobha Raju (2010) Mayadhar Raut (2010) Rekha (2010) Ajoy Chakrabarty (2011) Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry (2011) Makar Dhwaja Darogha (2011) Mahasundari Devi (2011) Gajam Govardhana (2011) Sunayana Hazarilal (2011) S. R. Janakiraman (2011) Jayaram (2011) Kajol (2011) Shaji N. Karun (2011) Girish Kasaravalli (2011) Irrfan Khan (2011) Tabu (2011) Kalamandalam Kshemavathy (2011) Peruvanam Kuttan Marar (2011) Jivya Soma Mashe (2011) Dadi Pudumjee (2011) M. K. Saroja (2011) Khangembam Mangi Singh (2011) Prahlad Tipanya (2011) Usha Uthup (2011) Satish Alekar (2012) Satish Alekar (2012) Vanraj Bhatia (2012) Nameirakpam Ibemni Devi (2012) Gopal Prasad Dubey (2012) Gundecha Brothers (2012) Chittani Ramachandra Hegde (2012) Anup Jalota (2012) Moti Lal Kemmu (2012) Shahid Parvez (2012) Mohanlal Chaturbhuj Kumhar (2012) Sakar Khan (2012) Joy Michael (2012) Minati Mishra (2012) Na Muthuswamy (2012) R. Nagarathnamma (2012) Kalamandalam Sivan Namboodiri (2012) Priyadarshan (2012) Priyadarshan (2012) Vijay Sharma (2012) Laila Tyabji (2012) Yamunabai Waikar (2012) S. Shakir Ali (2013) Gajam Anjaiah (2013) Bapu (2013) Pablo Bartholomew (2013) Purna Das Baul Samrat (2013) G. C. D. Bharti (2013) Apurba Kishore Bir (2013) Ghanakanta Bora (2013) B. Jayashree (2013) Hildamit Lepcha (2013) Madhu (actor) (2013) Sudha Malhotra (2013) Kailash Chandra Meher (2013) Brahmdeo Ram Pandit (2013) Nana Patekar (2013) Rekandar Nageswara Rao (2013) Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz (2013) Jaymala Shiledar (2013) Ramesh Sippy (2013) Sridevi (2013) Suresh Talwalkar (2013) Mahrukh Tarapor (2013) Balwant Thakur (2013) Rajendra Tiku (2013) Mohammad Ali Baig (2014) Vidya Balan (2014) Musafir Ram Bhardwaj (2014) Sabitri Chatterjee (2014) Biman Bihari Das (2014) Sunil Das (2014) Elam Endira Devi (2014) Supriya Devi (2014) Vijay Ghate (2014) Nayana Apte Joshi (2014) Elam Endira Devi (2014) Supriya Devi (2014) Vijay Ghate (2014) Nayana Apte Joshi (2014) Rani Karnaa (2014) Bansi Kaul (2014) Moinuddin Khan (musician) (2014) Geeta Mahalik (2014) Paresh Maity (2014) Ram Mohan (2014) Sudarsan Pattnaik (2014) Paresh Rawal (2014) Kalamandalam Satyabhama (2014) Anuj Sharma (actor) (2014) Santosh Sivan (2014) Sooni Taraporevala (2014) Naresh Bedi (2015) Sanjay Leela Bhansali (2015) Rahul Jain (2015) Ravindra Jain (2015) Prasoon Joshi (2015) A. Kanyakumari (2015) Prafulla Kar (2015) Tripti Mukherjee (2015) Neil Nongkynrih (2015) Kota Srinivasa Rao (2015) Shekhar Sen (2015) Pran Kumar Sharma (2015) Mahesh Raj Soni (2015) Malini Awasthi (2016) Madhur Bhandarkar (2016) Tulsidas Borkar (2016) Mamta Chandrakar (2016) Priyanka Chopra (2016) Ajay Devgn (2016) Bhikhudan Gadhvi (2016) Laxma Goud (2016) Saeed Jaffrey (2016) Venkatesh Kumar (2016) Naresh Chander Lal (2016) Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe (2016) Nila Madhab Panda (2016) Michael Postel (2016) Pratibha Prahlad (2016) Gulabo Sapera (2016) Prakash Chand Surana (2016) Basanti Bisht (2017) Baua Devi (2017) Jitendra Haripal (2017) Kailash Kher (2017) Sadhu Meher (2017) Aruna Mohanty (2017) T. K. Murthy (2017) Mukund Nayak (2017) Anuradha Paudwal (2017) Parassala B. Ponnammal (2017) Bharathi Vishnuvardhan (2017) Purushottam Upadhyay (2017) Doddarangegowda (2018) Manoj Joshi (actor) (2018) Pran Kishore Kaul (2018) Vijay Kichlu (2018) Prabhakar Maharana (2018) Sisir Mishra (2018) Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan (2018) Gobardhan Panika (2018) R. Sathyanarayana (2018) Bhajju Shyam (2018) Ibrahim Sutar (2018) Rudrapatnam Brothers (2018) Baba Yogendra (2018) Anup Ranjan Pandey (2019) Manoj Bajpayee (2019) Pritam Bhartwan (2019) Jyoti Bhatt (2019) Swapan Chaudhuri (2019) Dinyar Contractor (2019) Thanga Darlong (2019) Prabhu Deva (2019) Godawari Dutta (2019) Joravarsinh Jadav (2019) Fayaz Ahmad Jan (2019) K. G. Jayan (2019) Waman Kendre (2019) Kader Khan (2019) Abdul Gafur Khatri (2019) Shankar Mahadevan (2019) Narthaki Nataraj (2019) Milena Salvini (2019) Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry (2019) Rajeev Taranath (2019) Hiralal Yadav (2019) Rajeshwar Acharya (2019)
2020s	Shashadhar Acharya (2020) Indira P. P. Bora (2020) Bombay Sisters (2020) Vajira Chitrasena (2020) Puru Dadheech (2020) Madhu Mansuri Hasmukh (2020) Sarita Joshi (2020) Kangana Ranaut (2020) Ramzan Khan (2020) Manilal Nag (2020) Dalavai Chalapathi Rao (2020) Adnan Sami (2020) Suresh Wadkar (2020) V. K. Munusamy (2020) Yadla Gopalarao (2020) Dulari Devi (2021) Bombay Jayashri (2021) KC Sivasankaran (2021) Rewben Mashangva (2021) Sanjida Khatun (2021) Annavarapu Rama Swamy (2021) Nidumolu Sumathi (2021) Biren Kumar Basak (2021) Narayan Debnath (2021) Bhuri Bai (2021) Manjamma Jogathi (2021) Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan (Posthumous) (2022) Lalita Vakil (2022) H. R. Keshava Murthy (2022) Jamyang Tsering Namgyal (2022) Arjun Singh Dhurve (2022) Ram Sahay Panday (2022) Durga Bai Vyam (2022) Sulochana Chavan (2022) Sonu Nigam (2022) Lourembam Bino Devi (2022) Konsam Ibomcha Singh (2022) Shyamamani Devi (2022) Thavil Kongampattu A V Murugaiyan (2022) Chandraprakash Dwivedi (2022) Ram Dayal Sharma (2022) Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia (2022) S. Ballesh (2022) Sowcar Janaki (2022) R Muthukannammal (2022) A. K. C. Natarajan (2022) Darshanam Mogilaiah (2022) Sakini Ramachandraih (2022) Gaddam Padmaja Reddy (2022) Kamalini Asthana and Nalini Asthana (duo) (2022) Shivnath Mishra (2022) Sheesh Ram (2022) Ajita Srivastava (2022) Madhuri Barthwal (2022) Kaajee Singh (2022) Jodhaiya Bai Baiga (2023) Premjit Baria (2023) Usha Barle (2023) Hemant Chauhan (2023) Bhanubhai Chitara (2023) Hemoprova Chutia (2023) Subhadra Devi (2023) Hem Chandra Goswami (2023) Pritikana Goswami (2023) Ahmed and Mohammed Hussain (2023) Dilshad Hussain (2023) Mahipat Kavi (2023) M. M. Keeravani (2023) Parshuram Komaji Khune (2023) Maguni Charan Kuanr (2023) Domar Singh Kunvar (2023) Risingbor Kurkalang (2023) Rani Machaiah (2023) Ajay Kumar Mandavi (2023) Nadoja Pindipapanahalli Munivenkatappa (2023) Ramesh and Shanti Parmar (2023) Krishna Patel (2023) K Kalyanasundaram Pillai (2023) Kapil Dev Prasad (2023) Shah Rasheed Ahmed Quadri (2023) C. V. Raju (2023) Pareshbhai Rathwa (2023) Mangala Kanti Roy (2023) K.C. Runremsangi (2023) Ritwik Sanyal (2023) Kota Satchidananda Sastry (2023) Neihunuo Sorhie (2023) Moa Subong (2023) Raveena Tandon (2023) Coomi Nariman Wadia (2023) Ghulam Muhammad Zaz (2023) Ghulam Muhammad Zaz (2023) Gaddam Sammaiah (2024) Dasari Kondappa (2024)

v t e Padma Bhushan award recipients (2010–2019)
2010	Satya Paul Agarwal Mohammad Amin Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay M. S. Banga Anil Bordia Bipan Chandra B. K. Chaturvedi Sant Singh Chatwal G. P. Chopra Tan Chung Madhusudan Dhaky P. R. Dubhashi Puttaraj Gawai Belle Monappa Hegde Ilaiyaraaja Jagdish Chandra Kapur Shrinivas Khale Aamir Khan Sultan Khan Ram Kumar Kumudini Lakhia Kuzhur Narayana Marar Chhannulal Mishra Eledath Thaikkattu Narayanan Mooss C. P. Krishnan Nair S. P. Oswal Akbar Padamsee Ramakanta Panda Balasaheb Vikhe Patil Arogyaswami Paulraj A. R. Rahman Moosa Raza Mallika Sarabhai Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana Abhijit Sen Satya Vrat Shastri Noshir M. Shroff Kushal Pal Singh Bikash Sinha Balagangadharanatha Swamiji Narayanan Vaghul P. K. Warrier Fareed Zakaria
2011	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam Rajashree Birla M. N. Buch C. V. Chandrasekhar Ajai Chowdhry Yogesh Chander Deveshwar Satyadev Dubey T. J. S. George Shankha Ghosh Kris Gopalakrishnan Keki Byramjee Grant Shashi Kapoor Krishen Khanna Khayyam Chanda Kochhar Dwijen Mukhopadhyay Madavoor Vasudevan Nair Ramdas Pai Dashrath Patel Rajendra Singh Pawar Suryanarayanan Ramachandran Shobhana Ranade Gunupati Venkata Krishna Reddy Kallam Anji Reddy Waheeda Rehman Shyam Saran Analjit Singh Arpita Singh Surendra Singh R. K. Srikantan Raghavan Thirumulpad
2012	Suresh H. Advani Shabana Azmi Homi K. Bhabha Shashikumar Chitre Khaled Choudhury Jatin Das Vidya Dehejia Dharmendra S. N. Goenka M. S. Gopalakrishnan T. V. Gopalakrishnan Buddhadev Das Gupta Sunil Janah Anish Kapoor S. B. Mujumdar B. Muthuraman Mira Nair Arvind Panagariya José Pereira Mata Prasad M. S. Raghunathan P. Chandrasekhara Rao Ronen Sen Devi Shetty M. V. Subbiah N. Vittal N. H. Wadia George Yeo
2013	Satya N. Atluri Maharaj Kishan Bhan Jaspal Bhatti Rahul Dravid Adi Godrej Abdul Rashid Khan Rajesh Khanna Mary Kom Nandkishore Shamrao Laud Mangesh Padgaonkar Hemendra Singh Panwar Jogesh Pati Shivajirao Girdhar Patil A. Sivathanu Pillai D. Ramanaidu Kanak Rele V. K. Saraswat Ashoke Sen Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak B. N. Suresh Sharmila Tagore Ramamurthy Thyagarajan Saroja Vaidyanathan
2014	Anisuzzaman Mrityunjay Athreya Padmanabhan Balaram Dalveer Bhandari Ruskin Bond Anita Desai Pullela Gopichand Kamal Haasan Jyeshtharaj Joshi V. N. Kaul Neelam Kler M. Mahadevappa Leander Paes Koppillil Radhakrishnan Anumolu Ramakrishna Thirumalachari Ramasami Lloyd Rudolph Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Vinod Prakash Sharma Gulam Mohammed Sheikh Parween Sultana Dhirubhai Thaker Vairamuthu J. S. Verma T. H. Vinayakram
2015	Jahnu Barua Manjul Bhargava Vijay P. Bhatkar Swapan Dasgupta David Frawley Bill Gates Melinda French Gates Swami Satyamitranand N. Gopalaswami Subhash C. Kashyap Gokulotsavji Maharaj Saichiro Misumi Ambrish Mithal Sudha Ragunathan Harish Salve Ashok Seth Rajat Sharma Satpal Singh Shivakumara Swami Khadg Singh Valdiya
2016	Ravindra Chandra Bhargava Robert D. Blackwill Hafeez Contractor Indu Jain Heisnam Kanhailal Anupam Kher Sania Mirza Pallonji Mistry Udit Narayan Saina Nehwal Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad Vinod Rai N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya A. V. Rama Rao D. Nageshwara Reddy Dayananda Saraswati Barjinder Singh Hamdard Ram V. Sutar Tejomayananda
2017	Vishwa Mohan Bhatt Deviprasad Dwivedi Ratnasundarsuri Niranjanananda Saraswati Cho Ramaswamy Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Tehemton Erach Udwadia
2018	Pankaj Advani Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mahendra Singh Dhoni Alexander Kadakin Ramachandran Nagaswamy Laxman Pai Arvind Parikh Sharda Sinha
2019	John T. Chambers Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa Pravin Gordhan Dharampal Gulati Darshan Lal Jain Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade Kariya Munda Budhaditya Mukherjee Mohanlal Nambi Narayanan Kuldip Nayar Bachendri Pal V. K. Shunglu Hukmdev Narayan Yadav
# Posthumous conferral 1954–1959 1960–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 2020–2029

v t e National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer
1967–1980	Mahendra Kapoor (1967) Manna Dey (1968) S. D. Burman (1969) Manna Dey (1970) Hemant Kumar (1971) K. J. Yesudas (1972) K. J. Yesudas (1973) Mukesh (1974) M. Balamuralikrishna (1975) K. J. Yesudas (1976) Mohammed Rafi (1977) Shimoga Subbanna (1978) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1979) Anup Ghoshal (1980)
1981–2000	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1981) K. J. Yesudas (1982) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1983) Bhimsen Joshi (1984) Jayachandran (1985) Hemant Kumar (1986) K. J. Yesudas (1987) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1988) Ajoy Chakrabarty (1989) M. G. Sreekumar (1990) K. J. Yesudas (1991) Dr. Rajkumar (1992) K. J. Yesudas (1993) P. Unnikrishnan (1994) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1995) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1996) Hariharan (1997) Sanjeev Abhyankar (1998) M. G. Sreekumar (1999) Shankar Mahadevan (2000)
2001–2020	Udit Narayan (2001) Udit Narayan (2002) Sonu Nigam (2003) Udit Narayan (2004) Naresh Iyer (2005) Gurdas Maan (2006) Shankar Mahadevan (2007) Hariharan (2008) Rupam Islam (2009) Suresh Wadkar (2010) Anand Bhate (2011) Shankar Mahadevan (2012) Rupankar (2013) Sukhwinder Singh (2014) Mahesh Kale (2015) Sundarayyar (2016) K. J. Yesudas (2017) Arijit Singh (2018) B Praak (2019) Rahul Deshpande (2020)
2021–present	Kaala Bhairava (2021) Arijit Singh (2022)

v t e Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer
1960–1980	Mukesh (1960) Mohammed Rafi (1961) Mohammed Rafi (1962) No Award (1963) Mahendra Kapoor (1964) Mohammed Rafi (1965) No Award (1966) Mohammed Rafi (1967) Mahendra Kapoor (1968) Mohammed Rafi (1969) Kishore Kumar (1970) Mukesh (1971) Manna Dey (1972) Mukesh (1973) Narendra Chanchal (1974) Mahendra Kapoor (1975) Kishore Kumar (1976) Mukesh (1977) Mohammed Rafi (1978) Kishore Kumar (1979) K. J. Yesudas (1980)
1981–2000	Kishore Kumar (1981) Amit Kumar (1982) Kishore Kumar (1983) Kishore Kumar (1984) Kishore Kumar (1985) Kishore Kumar (1986) No Award (1987) No Award (1988) Udit Narayan (1989) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1990) Kumar Sanu (1991) Kumar Sanu (1992) Kumar Sanu (1993) Kumar Sanu (1994) Kumar Sanu (1995) Udit Narayan (1996) Udit Narayan (1997) Abhijeet (1998) Sukhwinder Singh (1999) Udit Narayan (2000)
2001-2020	Lucky Ali (2001) Udit Narayan (2002) Sonu Nigam (2003) Sonu Nigam (2004) Kunal Ganjawala (2005) Himesh Reshammiya (2006) Shaan and Kailash Kher (2007) Shaan (2008) Sukhwinder Singh (2009) Mohit Chauhan (2010) Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (2011) Mohit Chauhan (2012) Ayushmann Khurrana (2013) Arijit Singh (2014) Ankit Tiwari (2015) Arijit Singh (2016) Arijit Singh (2017) Arijit Singh (2018) Arijit Singh (2019) Arijit Singh (2020)
2021–present	Raghav Chaitanya (2021) B Praak (2022) Arijit Singh (2023) Bhupinder Babbal (2024)

v t e Screen Award for Best Male Playback Singer
1995-2000	Kumar Sanu (1995) Hariharan (1996) Udit Narayan (1997) Abhijeet Bhattacharya (1998) Sukhwinder Singh (1999) Sukhwinder Singh (2000)
2001-present	Lucky Ali (2001) Sonu Nigam (2002) Udit Narayan (2003) Kailash Kher (2004) Sonu Nigam (2005) Sonu Nigam (2006) Shaan (2007) Soham Chakrabarty (2008) KK (2009) Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (2010) Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (2011) Mohit Chauhan (2012) Javed Ali (2013) Arijit Singh (2014) Arijit Singh (2015) Papon (2016) Amit Mishra (2017) Arijit Singh (2018) Arijit Singh (2019) Sachet Tandon (2020)

Screen Award for Best Male Playback Singer

1995-2000

2001-present

Lucky Ali (2001)
Sonu Nigam (2002)
Udit Narayan (2003)
Kailash Kher (2004)
Sonu Nigam (2005)
Sonu Nigam (2006)
Shaan (2007)
Soham Chakrabarty (2008)
KK (2009)
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (2010)
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (2011)
Mohit Chauhan (2012)
Javed Ali (2013)
Arijit Singh (2014)
Arijit Singh (2015)
Papon (2016)
Amit Mishra (2017)
Arijit Singh (2018)
Arijit Singh (2019)
Sachet Tandon (2020)

v t e Zee Cine Award for Best Playback Singer – Male
Sonu Nigam (1998) Sukhwinder Singh (1999) Udit Narayan (2000) Lucky Ali (2001) Sonu Nigam (2002) Sonu Nigam (2003) Shaan (2004) Kunal Ganjawala (2005) Himesh Reshammiya (2006) Shaan (2007) Shaan (2008) No Award (2009) No Award (2010) Mohit Chauhan (2011) Mohit Chauhan (2012) Sonu Nigam (2013) Arijit Singh (2014) No Award (2015) Arijit Singh & Mohit Chauhan (2016) Arijit Singh (2017) Akhil Sachdeva (2018) Yasser Desai (2019) Arijit Singh (2020) Arijit Singh (2023) Arijit Singh (2024)

Zee Cine Award for Best Playback Singer – Male

Sonu Nigam (1998)
Sukhwinder Singh (1999)
Udit Narayan (2000)
Lucky Ali (2001)
Sonu Nigam (2002)
Sonu Nigam (2003)
Shaan (2004)
Kunal Ganjawala (2005)
Himesh Reshammiya (2006)
Shaan (2007)
Shaan (2008)
No Award (2009)
No Award (2010)
Mohit Chauhan (2011)
Mohit Chauhan (2012)
Sonu Nigam (2013)
Arijit Singh (2014)
No Award (2015)
Arijit Singh & Mohit Chauhan (2016)
Arijit Singh (2017)
Akhil Sachdeva (2018)
Yasser Desai (2019)
Arijit Singh (2020)
Arijit Singh (2023)
Arijit Singh (2024)

v t e IIFA Award for Best Male Playback Singer
Udit Narayan (2000) Lucky Ali (2001) Sonu Nigam (2002) Sonu Nigam (2003) Sonu Nigam (2004) Kunal Ganjawala (2005) Himesh Reshammiya (2006) Shaan (2007) Shaan (2008) Javed Ali (2009) Shaan (2010) Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (2011) Mohit Chauhan (2012) Sonu Nigam (2013) Arijit Singh (2014) Ankit Tiwari (2015) Papon (2016) Amit Mishra (2017) Arijit Singh (2018) Arijit Singh (2019) Arijit Singh (2020)

IIFA Award for Best Male Playback Singer

Udit Narayan (2000)
Lucky Ali (2001)
Sonu Nigam (2002)
Sonu Nigam (2003)
Sonu Nigam (2004)
Kunal Ganjawala (2005)
Himesh Reshammiya (2006)
Shaan (2007)
Shaan (2008)
Javed Ali (2009)
Shaan (2010)
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (2011)
Mohit Chauhan (2012)
Sonu Nigam (2013)
Arijit Singh (2014)
Ankit Tiwari (2015)
Papon (2016)
Amit Mishra (2017)
Arijit Singh (2018)
Arijit Singh (2019)
Arijit Singh (2020)

v t e Bollywood Movie Award for Best Playback Singer - Male
Udit Narayan (1999) Not awarded (2000) Lucky Ali (2001) Shankar Mahadevan (2002) Sukhwinder Singh (2003) Shankar Mahadevan (2004) Amir Jamal (2005) Kunal Ganjawala (2006) Shaan (2007)

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