| National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer | |
|---|---|
| National Award for contributions to Indian Cinema | |
| Awarded for | Best Male Playback Singer for feature film for a year |
| Sponsored by | Directorate of Film Festivals |
| Formerly called | Best Playback Singer of the Year (1967) |
| Reward(s) |
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| First awarded | 1967 |
| Last awarded | 2021 |
| Most recent winner | Kaala Bhairava |
| Highlights | |
| Most awards | K. J. Yesudas (8) |
| Total awarded | 53 |
| First winner | Mahendra Kapoor |
| Website | https://dff.gov.in/Archive.aspx?ID=6  |
The following is a list of winners of the National Film Award (Silver Lotus Award) for best male Playback singer. 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 (5 awards), Tamil, Marathi and Kannada (4 each), 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 have bagged this award twice.