| Type National Instituted 1967 First awardees Mahendra Kapoor Cash award 50,000 INR (US$790) | Category Indian Cinema First awarded 1967 Established 1967 Total awarded 51 | |
| Description Best Male Playback Singer for feature film for a year Medal Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) Awarded by Directorate of Film Festivals People also search for National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer | ||
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 the year 1967. The singer with the most awards in this category is K. J. Yesudas with seven wins for three different languages (Malayalam, Telugu & Hindi), followed by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam who won six times for 4 different languages; Hindi, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. Shankar Mahadevan and Udit Narayan follow next winning three awards each. The singers Manna Dey, Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, M. G. Sreekumar, Hariharan have bagged this award twice.
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