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Ilaiyaraaja is an film music composer who worked in Indian cinema, especially Tamil since the mid 1970s. Regarded as the greatest Indian music composer, Ilaiyaraaja is also an instrumentalist, conductor, singer and songwriter.

Laxmikant-Pyarelal or LP or Laxmi-Pyare were an Indian duo of Bollywood Film music composers formed of Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (1937-1998) and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (Born 1940). They composed the music of over 500 films from 1963 to 1998 for most Indian directors such as Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, Feroze Khan, BR Chopra, Shakti Samanta, Manmohan Desai, Yash Chopra, Subhash Ghai and Manoj Kumar.

Allah Rakha Rahman is a music composer, record producer, musician and Indian Tamil singer. Time magazine nickname him Mozart of Madras. Some Tamil critics called him Isai Puyal (meaning: Storm of Music). In 2009, Time magazine included Rahman in the list of the Time 100 Most Influential people of World.

Sachin Dev Burman was a Bengali music composer. Sachin Dev Burman began his career in Bengali films in 1937. Later, he began composing Hindi films. He is one of the most famous Bollywood film composers.

Madan Mohan was an Indian composer. He composed hundreds of film scores, songs inspired by ghazal, which earned him the title of king of ghazal. First assistant of SD Burman, he began composing in 1950 and met his first success with the songs of the movie Aankhen which also sees the beginning of his long collaboration with Lata Mangeshkar.

Rahul Dev Burman (27 June, 1939 - 4 January, 1994) was a famous musician of Hindi films. These were also called 'Pancham' or 'Panchma da'. This great musician died in 1994. In his lifetime, RD Burman gave all kinds of music to Indian cinema. Today's people also like their music. Even today, his music is used in the film industry.

Kalyanji Anandji is the stage name of two Indian composer brothers from Gujarat, Kalyanji Virji Shah (1928-2000) and Anandji Virji Shah (1933-). They composed together several film scores, such as Don and Vishwas.

Naushad Ali (1919-2006) was a famous musician of Hindi films. Even after 64 years of playing music in the film, Naushad gave music only in 67 films, but his skill won the point that the quality is far ahead of the number. He also gave music for the television, in the serial like 'The Sword of Tipu Sultan' and 'Akbar the Great'.

Koduri Marakathamani Keeravaani, better known as M. M. Keeravani, born on 4th July, 1961 in Andhra Pradesh. He is an Indian Tamil, Telugu and Kannada film music director, film scorer, music creator. He was given the National Film Award for Directing the Best Music for the film Annamayya. He has won four Filmfare Awards, eight Nandi Awards and a Tamil Nadu State Film Award.

Born on 24th May 1955, Rajesh Roshan is the son of the well known composer Raushanlal Nathath (Raushan). His elder brother Rakesh Roshan is a famous producer and producer and Hrithik Roshan is his nephew. Rajesh Raushan, who started his career since 1975, has worked with almost all the big directors.

O. P. Nayyar was an Indian film music composer, mainly for the Hindi film. O.P. Nayyar began his career as a film music writer in 1949 for the film Kaneez. His first great success was Aar Paar (1954) of Guru Dutt, with whom he then worked several times, including for Mr. & Mrs. '55 and CID He frequently wrote songs for Geeta Dutt, Asha Bhosle and Mohammed Rafi, their careers he pushes it forward.

Ankit Tiwari is a composer, playback singer and musical director. He received praise for his song entitled, Sunn Raha Hai for the movie Aashiqui 2. His father has a recording studio and his mother is also a singer, who plays devotional music. As a child he sat with them during practice and trained under the tutelage of Vinod Kumar Dwivedi.

Sandeep Chowta is the music director of Indian music industry. He has mainly composed music for Hindi, Telugu and Kannada films. Apart from this, he is the head of the Columbia Records in India.

Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy is a musical group from India, formed by Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa in 1997. Both are producers of phonograms, musicians, composers and multiple instrumentalists, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy have participated in the soundtracks of more than fifty movies singing in four languages. Being one of the most acclaimed groups by the public, the trio has been recognized with more than twenty awards, including the National Indian Film Award, three Filmfare Awards, and three IIFA Awards among several nominations. They were cited as "Amar Akbar Anthony" in the film industry by many music critics, including the famous critic of Rajeev Masand.

Himesh Reshamiya (born July 23, 1973) is a singer, musician, songwriter, actor and film producer, who is mainly working in Hindi films. Tere Naam film music established him as a successful musician in Bollywood, and in 2004 he gave music in films like Run, Tarzan, Aitraaz and Dil Maange More.