| National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer | |
|---|---|
| National Award for contributions to Indian Cinema | |
.jpg) The 2022 recipient: Arijit Singh | |
| Awarded for | Best Male Playback Singer for feature film for a year |
| Sponsored by | National Film Development Corporation of India |
| Formerly called | Best Playback Singer of the Year (1967) |
| Reward(s) |
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| First awarded | 1967 |
| Last awarded | 2022 |
| Most recent winner | Arijit Singh for "Kesariya" from Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva |
| Highlights | |
| Most awards | K. J. Yesudas (8) |
| Total awarded | 54 |
| First winner | Mahendra Kapoor |
| Website | https://dff.gov.in/Archive.aspx?ID=6  |
The National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer is an honour presented annually at the National Film Awards of India since 1968 to a male playback singer for the best renditions of songs from films within the Indian film industry. The award was first granted to Mahendra Kapoor in 1967. The singers whose performances have won awards have worked in nine major languages: Hindi (19 awards), Malayalam (9 awards), Bengali (7 awards), Telugu and Marathi (5 awards each), Tamil, Kannada (4 awards), and Punjabi (1 award).
The singer with the most awards in this category is K. J. Yesudas with eight wins for three languages (Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi), followed by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam who won six times for four languages (Telugu, Hindi, Kannada and Tamil). Udit Narayan and Shankar Mahadevan follow next, winning three awards each. The singers Manna Dey, Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, M. G. Sreekumar, Hariharan and Arijit Singh have bagged this award twice.