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Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer
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The Filmfare Best Male Playback Singer Award is given by Indian film magazine Filmfare as a part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films, to recognise a male playback singer who has delivered an outstanding performance in a film song.
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Although the Filmfare Awards started in 1954, awards for the best playback singer category started in 1959. From inception of the category through 1967, both the female and male singers used to compete for a single award, after which separate categories were created for female and male singers respectively.
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- Kishore Kumar holds the record for the most wins in this category, with eight, followed by Arijit Singh with seven wins and Mohammed Rafi with six. Kumar Sanu and Udit Narayan have each won the award five times, while Mukesh has received it four times and Mahendra Kapoor three times.
- Mohammed Rafi dominated the 1960s with five wins. In the 1970s, Kishore Kumar and Mukesh each won the award three times. Kishore Kumar continued his success into the 1980s, winning five times during that decade. Kumar Sanu led the 1990s with five awards, including a record of five consecutive wins from 1991 to 1995. In the 2000s, Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam, and Shaan each won the award twice. Arijit Singh dominated the 2010s with five wins during the decade.
- In terms of nominations, Kishore Kumar leads with 28, followed by Arijit Singh (23), Mohammed Rafi (21), Udit Narayan (20), Sonu Nigam (19), and both Mukesh and Kumar Sanu with 14 nominations each.
- Udit Narayan is the only singer to have received nominations and won the award in three different decades, and he is also the only Nepali-origin singer to have won in this category.
- Kumar Sanu (1991–1995) and Arijit Singh (2016–2020) share the record for the most consecutive wins, with five wins in a row. Kishore Kumar won the award four times consecutively from 1983 to 1986.
- Mukesh remains the only playback singer to have won this award posthumously, receiving it in 1977.
- In 2006, Himesh Reshammiya became the first music director to win the award for Best Male Playback Singer.
- Two singers have achieved the distinction of receiving all nominations in a single year:
- In 1969, Mohammed Rafi was the sole nominee with three nominations.
- In 1985, Kishore Kumar held all four nominations, all from the film Sharaabi.
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Note: The category for Best Playback Singer was established in 1959, and until 1967 both male and female singers used to compete for a single award.
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