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Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer
Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer is given by Filmfare to the singer who gives the most pleasant and melodious male voice to a song of a film in the previous year.

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Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback SingerFilmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer is awarded by Filmfare every year in its Filmfare Awards, to the male singer who lends his playback voice to a song of a Hindi film in the previous year and makes it most melodic and delightful to listen to. Introduced in 1959, five years after the inception of Filmfare Awards, best playback singer was a single award up till 1967, for both the female and the male singers. From 1968 onwards, it has been given as two separate categories for female and male singers.

Prominent Records in Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer
Eminent singer Kishore Kumar holds the maximum records in the Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer, having the most number of wins with 8, most nominations with 27, most nominations in a single year with 4 in 1985 and the oldest winner and nominee at the age of 57.

Renowned singer Mohammad Rafi has won the award 6 times and also holds the feat of having all the nominations in a single year, with all 3 in 1969, along with Kishore Kumar who was the single nominee in 1985 with all 4 nominations, incidentally all from a single movie "Sharaabi".

Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback SingerSingers Kumar Sanu and Udit Narayan both have won the award 5 times, with Kumar Sanu winning all five consecutively, from 1991 to 1995, holding the record for most consecutive wins. Udit Narayan holds a unique record of receiving nominations in three different decades and has won the award in all the three decades.

Singer Mukesh has won the award four times; Mahendra Kapoor thrice and the singers namely Sonu Nigam, Shaan, Sukhwinder Singh, Mohit Chauhan have won it twice. Himesh Reshammiya is the first music director to win this award, in 2006. Arijit Singh has won it for four times.

List of Winners of Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer
The winners of Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer and their respective playback songs from 1990 to 2018 are enlisted hereunder:

Year Winning Male Singer Song (Movie)
2018 Arijit SIngh Roke Na Ruke Naina (Badrinath Ki Dulhania)
2017 Arijit Singh Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Ae Dil Hai Mushkil)
2016 Arijit Singh Sooraj Dooba Hain (Roy)
2015 Ankit Tiwari Galliyan (Ek Villain)
2014 Arijit Singh Tum Hi Ho (Aashiqui 2)
2013 Ayushmann Khurrana Pani Da Rang (Vicky Donor)
2012 Mohit Chauhan Jo Bhi Main (Rockstar)
2011 Rahat Fateh Ali Khan Dil Toh Bachcha Hai Ji (Ishqiya)
2010 Mohit Chauhan Masakali (Delhi-6)
2009 Sukhwinder Singh Haule Haule (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi)
2008 Shaan Jab Se Tere Naina (Saawariya)
2007 Shaan and Kailash Kher Chand Sifarish (Fanaa)
2006 Himesh Reshammiya Aashiq Banaya Aapne (Aashiq Banaya Aapne)
2005 Kunal Ganjawala Bheenge Honth Tere (Murder)
2004 Sonu Nigam Kal Ho Naa Ho (Kal Ho Naa Ho)
2003 Sonu Nigam Saathiya (Saathiya)
2002 Udit Narayan Mitwa (Lagaan)
2001 Lucky Ali Naa Tum Jaano Naa Hum (Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai)
2000 Udit Narayan Chand Chhupa (Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam)
1999 Sukhwinder Singh Chhaiyyan Chaiyyan (Dil Se..)
1998 Abhijeet Main Koi Aisa Geet Gaaun (Yes Boss)
1997 Udit Narayan Pardesi Pardesi (Raja Hindustani)
1996 Udit Narayan Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna (Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge)
1995 Kumar Sanu Ek Ladki Ko Dekha (1942: A Love Story)
1994 Kumar Sanu Yeh Kaali Kaali Aankhen (Baazigar)
1993 Kumar Sanu Sochenge Tumhe Pyaar (Deewana)
1992 Kumar Sanu Mera Dil Bhi (Saajan)
1991 Kumar Sanu Ab Tere Bin (Aashiqui)
1990 S. P. Balasubrahmanyam Dil Deewaana (Maine Pyar Kiya)



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