RMIMers were wondering how many Females were there as Music Directors, Singers and Lyricists. For one reason or another the Telugu list was completed first. Here we start with a table of Telugu music directors. The first column is the name of the MD, the second column is the number of songs that they have composed. After the name (F) indicates female, all others are male. We also we will be publishing lists of the lyricists and the singers.
All the work of coordinating the list was done by N Ramaswamy. He has the following to add:
'I would like to thank Venkata Vutukuri for sharing with me the comprehensive list of Singers, Lyricists and Composers which formed the base for this project. Of course this would have not been possible without the help of the following Helpers/Contributors listed below alphabetically".
Ambrish Sundaram
Balaji Murthy
Lakshmi Priya Pakanati
Sreenivas Paruchuri
UVRavindra
Now You Know!
|
Music Director Name |
Songs |
|
A A Raj |
100 |
|
A Krishnamurty |
29 |
|
A M Raja |
41 |
|
A R Rahman |
200 |
|
A S Gitakrishna |
7 |
|
A S Nageswara Rao |
1 |
|
A T Ramanujulu |
50 |
|
A T Umar |
11 |
|
Aabavanan |
1 |
|
Aadesh Srivatsava |
1 |
|
Addepalli Rama Rao |
130 |
|
Aditya Paudwal |
14 |
|
Adityan |
39 |
|
Agosh |
6 |
|
Akira Ifukube |
1 |
|
Akula Narasimha Rao |
116 |
|
Amar |
16 |
|
Anand |
25 |
|
Anand - Milind |
23 |
|
Anil - Arun |
1 |
|
Anna Saheb Mainkar |
14 |
|
Anu Malik |
7 |
|
Arabin Yusuf |
1 |
|
Aswatdhama |
392 |
|
B Chittibabu |
4 |
|
B G Tembe |
38 |
|
B Gopalam |
209 |
|
B Gururaj |
8 |
|
B Kumaraswamy |
47 |
|
B Madhava Rao |
8 |
|
B Narasimha Rao |
278 |
|
B Narasinga Rao |
5 |
|
B R Suresh |
11 |
|
B Rajanikanta Rao |
47 |
|
B Shankar |
117 |
|
B Vasanta (F) |
5 |
|
Babu Rao |
88 |
|
Babul Bose |
6 |
|
Balakrishna |
2 |
|
Balamuralikrishna |
53 |
|
Bappi Lahiri |
133 |
|
Ben Surendra |
7 |
|
Bhanuchander |
5 |
|
Bhanumathi (F) |
76 |
|
Bharani |
5 |
|
Bhuvan Hari |
1 |
|
Bhuvaneswar Misra |
1 |
|
Brahmanandam |
9 |
|
Brother Lakshman |
48 |
|
C Arjun |
5 |
|
C Ashwath |
11 |
|
C D Thakur |
1 |
|
C Mohan Das |
28 |
|
C N Pandurangan |
93 |
|
C R Subburaman |
224 |
|
C Ramachandra |
30 |
|
C S Diwakar |
14 |
|
C S Jayaraman |
10 |
|
Chaitanya |
8 |
|
Chakravarthy |
2750 |
|
Chakri |
5 |
|
Chanakya |
1 |
|
Chand |
2 |
|
Chandrabose |
53 |
|
Chandram - Suryam |
8 |
|
Chandrasekhar |
64 |
|
Chari |
18 |
|
Chitragupta |
17 |
|
Chitti Babu |
9 |
|
Christopher Franke |
1 |
|
Chunduru Satyanarayana Murty |
29 |
|
D Babu Rao |
11 |
|
D C Dutt |
2 |
|
D Madhava Chowdary |
4 |
|
David Arnold |
1 |
|
Deva |
287 |
|
Devadas Kote |
6 |
|
Devarajan |
45 |
|
Devendran |
49 |
|
Devi Sri Prasad |
12 |
|
Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam |
6 |
|
Dhenuvakonda Subba Rao |
20 |
|
Dikshith |
1 |
|
Duggirala |
13 |
|
Durga Sen |
13 |
|
E S Murty |
5 |
|
Eemani Sankara Sastry |
16 |
|
Eeshwar |
8 |
|
Ella Venkateswara Rao |
5 |
|
G Devarajan |
1 |
|
G K Venkatesh |
200 |
|
G Madhava Tambe |
44 |
|
G Ramanathan |
167 |
|
G Surendra Reddy |
1 |
|
Gali Penchala |
390 |
|
Gangai Amaran |
35 |
|
Garimella Gopala Rao |
3 |
|
Ghantadi Krishna |
1 |
|
Ghantasala |
1110 |
|
Ghantasala Vijayakumar |
29 |
|
Gnyani |
1 |
|
Gopala Krishna |
4 |
|
Gopi Radha (F) |
6 |
|
Guna Singh |
7 |
|
Gundopanth Valvalkar |
22 |
|
Gurukiran |
11 |
|
Gyan Varma |
1 |
|
H R Padmanabha Sastry |
323 |
|
Hamsalekha |
151 |
|
Haranath |
1 |
|
Harikesava Nellore Brothers |
15 |
|
Hariram |
2 |
|
Hemant Kumar |
1 |
|
Hombal |
9 |
|
Ilayaraja |
1646 |
|
Inder John Babu |
12 |
|
J Purushottam |
19 |
|
J Ramakrishna |
6 |
|
J V Raghavulu |
668 |
|
Jagadeesa Rao Saligram |
20 |
|
Janaki (F) |
6 |
|
Jandhyala |
39 |
|
Jatin Lalit |
7 |
|
Jeevan |
13 |
|
Jeriri Usha Khanna (F) |
1 |
|
Jerry Amaldev |
6 |
|
Joel McNeely |
1 |
|
John Scott |
1 |
|
Johnson |
8 |
|
Joseph |
11 |
|
Joseph Krishna |
7 |
|
Joy Raja |
10 |
|
K Bhagyaraj |
21 |
|
K Bhujanga Rao |
18 |
|
K Devadas |
9 |
|
K Lakshminarayana |
1 |
|
K Prasada Rao |
47 |
|
K Raghavan |
3 |
|
K S Dandayudapani Pillai |
10 |
|
K S R Murthy |
4 |
|
K S Raghunathan |
2 |
|
K V Mahadevan |
2133 |
|
K V Mahadevan - Musical Supervision |
72 |
|
K Vaidyanathan |
2 |
|
K Veeru |
31 |
|
Kalyanji - Anandji |
1 |
|
Kamar |
1 |
|
Kanna Babu |
4 |
|
Karthik Raja |
13 |
|
Kavi |
11 |
|
Kelkar |
17 |
|
Kha Sahib Burjikhaw |
38 |
|
Kopparapu Subba Rao |
71 |
|
Koti |
436 |
|
Krishna - Chakra |
130 |
|
Krishna - Neeraj |
8 |
|
Krishna Prasad |
13 |
|
Krishna Teja |
28 |
|
Krishnasri |
2 |
|
Kumar |
4 |
|
L Malleswara Rao |
97 |
|
L Vaidyanathan |
33 |
|
Laay |
3 |
|
Lakshmana Sai |
2 |
|
Lakshmi Kiran (F) |
10 |
|
Lakshminarayana |
47 |
|
Laxmikant - Pyarelal |
39 |
|
Leela (F) |
5 |
|
M B Srinivas |
30 |
|
M B Srinivasan |
2 |
|
M B Valke |
23 |
|
M Chittaranjan |
4 |
|
M D Parthasarathy |
59 |
|
M G Radhakrishnan |
3 |
|
M Janardhan |
8 |
|
M Jayachandran |
1 |
|
M Krishna Ganga |
1 |
|
M M Keeravani |
647 |
|
M M Srilekha (F) |
109 |
|
M Muttu |
10 |
|
M Poornachandra Rao |
31 |
|
M Ranga Rao |
203 |
|
M S Babu |
8 |
|
M S Gnanamani |
16 |
|
M S Murari |
2 |
|
M S Prakash |
23 |
|
M S Raju |
12 |
|
M S Rama Rao |
11 |
|
M S Sriram |
38 |
|
M S Viswanathan |
750 |
|
M S Viswanathan - T K Ramamurty |
5 |
|
M Subrahmanya Raju |
61 |
|
M Venkat Raju |
14 |
|
Madhavapeddi Suresh |
177 |
|
Madhusudan - Srinivas |
6 |
|
Mahesh |
25 |
|
Mallikarjun |
13 |
|
Mani Sharma |
136 |
|
Manoj |
20 |
|
Manoj Gyan |
29 |
|
Mansoor Ali Khan |
1 |
|
Manuvanti Venkateswara Rao |
1 |
|
Maruti Sitaramaiah |
61 |
|
Master Venu |
425 |
|
Mohan Sitara |
7 |
|
Motibabu |
194 |
|
Mullick |
56 |
|
Murali |
11 |
|
N S Prakash |
4 |
|
Nadeem Shravan |
17 |
|
Nagaiah |
282 |
|
Nagaraja Iyer |
8 |
|
Nalam Nageswara Rao |
33 |
|
Nalin |
1 |
|
Nalluri Sudheer Kumar |
16 |
|
Narahari |
1 |
|
Naraj |
1 |
|
Narasimham |
1 |
|
Natarajan |
8 |
|
Naveen - Jyothi |
18 |
|
Nawaj |
1 |
|
Nelluri Subhash |
4 |
|
Nihan |
1 |
|
Nimmagadda Paradesi |
50 |
|
Nirmal Kumar |
1 |
|
Nityanand |
19 |
|
Nityanandam |
5 |
|
O P Nayyar |
10 |
|
Ogirala |
356 |
|
Ouseppachan |
1 |
|
P Adi Narayana Rao |
305 |
|
P B Sreenivos |
1 |
|
P Munuswamy |
103 |
|
P R Moni |
3 |
|
P S Diwakar |
33 |
|
P Samudrala |
4 |
|
P Shamanna |
26 |
|
P Surapa Raju |
4 |
|
Pamarty |
325 |
|
Panyam |
1 |
|
Parthasarathy |
36 |
|
Pendyala |
956 |
|
Pendyala Srinivas |
25 |
|
Philips |
4 |
|
Prabhala Satyanarayana |
140 |
|
Pradeep Ravi |
1 |
|
Prapulla Mitra |
29 |
|
Prasanna Sarraju |
11 |
|
Premji |
5 |
|
Puhalendi |
35 |
|
Purushottam |
9 |
|
R D Burman |
24 |
|
R Govardhanam |
126 |
|
R N Chinnayya |
13 |
|
R P Patnaik |
18 |
|
R Pandyarajan |
1 |
|
R R G |
1 |
|
R Rajagopal |
2 |
|
R Sudarsanam |
212 |
|
R Vaidyanathan |
13 |
|
Raaz |
11 |
|
Raghu Kumar |
1 |
|
Rahul Ranade |
1 |
|
Raj |
65 |
|
Raj - Koti |
879 |
|
Raj Bhaskar |
2 |
|
Raja |
5 |
|
Rajamani |
10 |
|
Rajan - Nagendra |
339 |
|
Rajaram |
1 |
|
Rajasri |
13 |
|
Rajasri Sudhakar |
5 |
|
Rajendra Prasad |
5 |
|
Rajesh |
7 |
|
Rajesh Ramanath |
3 |
|
Rajesh Roshan |
15 |
|
Raju |
6 |
|
Ram - Laxman |
33 |
|
Ram Chakravarthy |
8 |
|
Ramakrishna Raja |
4 |
|
Ramana |
9 |
|
Ramana Gogula |
31 |
|
Ramani Bharadwaj |
58 |
|
Ramani Prasad |
6 |
|
Ramasubrahmanyam |
8 |
|
Ramesh |
11 |
|
Ramesh Naidu |
525 |
|
Ramji |
12 |
|
Ramkadam |
9 |
|
Randy Edelman |
1 |
|
Ranjit |
6 |
|
Ratnam |
11 |
|
Ravi |
27 |
|
Ravi Shankar |
1 |
|
Ravindra Jain |
9 |
|
Ravindran |
5 |
|
S A Rajkumar |
196 |
|
S B Dinakar Rao |
98 |
|
S D Babu Rao |
13 |
|
S D Santha Kumar |
8 |
|
S Gama |
4 |
|
S Hanumanta Rao |
274 |
|
S L Merchant |
18 |
|
S M S Babu Rao |
1 |
|
S M Subbaiah Naidu |
75 |
|
S N Tripathi |
9 |
|
S P Kodandapani |
551 |
|
S P Kodandapani Eswar |
4 |
|
S P Rao |
6 |
|
S P Venkatesh |
37 |
|
S Rajeswara Rao |
1347 |
|
S V Krishna Reddy |
163 |
|
S V Ramanan |
1 |
|
S V Venkatraman |
92 |
|
S Vedachalam |
25 |
|
SPB |
160 |
|
Sadhu Kokila |
9 |
|
Sai Lakshman |
16 |
|
Sai Shankar |
5 |
|
Saladi Bhaskar Rao |
1 |
|
Salil Chowdhury |
11 |
|
Saluri Babu |
8 |
|
Sampath |
1 |
|
Samrat |
7 |
|
Sandeep Chowtha |
40 |
|
Sangita Raja |
11 |
|
Sanjay - Manikya |
2 |
|
Sankar |
3 |
|
Sarat |
1 |
|
Sardar Malik |
8 |
|
Sashi Preetam |
46 |
|
Satya |
5 |
|
Satya Rao |
8 |
|
Satyam |
1701 |
|
Seenu |
1 |
|
Shankar |
6 |
|
Shankar - Ganesh |
296 |
|
Shankar - Jaikishan |
16 |
|
Sheik Imam |
26 |
|
Shiv Hari |
11 |
|
Shyam |
52 |
|
Shyam - A A Raj |
9 |
|
Siddhardh |
1 |
|
Sirpi |
65 |
|
Sivaji Raja |
71 |
|
Sivakumar |
1 |
|
Sivasankar |
6 |
|
Sreeraj |
4 |
|
Sri |
129 |
|
Sri Ganesh |
4 |
|
Sri Murty |
4 |
|
Sri Nityanand |
10 |
|
Srikant |
1 |
|
Sriramulu |
12 |
|
Stalin Varadarajan |
1 |
|
Subhash Gopi |
11 |
|
Subrahmanya Devara |
14 |
|
Sudhir Phadke |
19 |
|
Suresh |
5 |
|
Suresh Peter |
1 |
|
Suribabu |
155 |
|
Suryam |
5 |
|
Susarla |
361 |
|
T A Kalyanaraman |
75 |
|
T Chalapati Rao |
533 |
|
T G Lingappa |
101 |
|
T K Kumaraswamy |
36 |
|
T K Ramamurty |
252 |
|
T K Ramanathan |
15 |
|
T L Narasimhan |
4 |
|
T M Ibrahim |
61 |
|
T Poornanandam |
16 |
|
T R Papa |
30 |
|
T R Ramanathan |
10 |
|
T Rajendar |
70 |
|
T V Raju |
783 |
|
Tangirala |
1 |
|
Tangutoori Suryakumari (F) |
15 |
|
Tatachari |
10 |
|
Thani - Srini |
1 |
|
Thayanban |
4 |
|
Tungala |
35 |
|
Turaiyur Rajagopala Sarma |
9 |
|
U Saroja (F) |
6 |
|
Udayakumar |
5 |
|
Unknown Music Director |
692 |
|
Upendra Kumar |
30 |
|
Usha Khanna (F) |
8 |
|
Ushakant |
3 |
|
V Dakshinamurty |
35 |
|
V J Gopal Singh |
83 |
|
V Kumar |
40 |
|
V Manohar |
15 |
|
V Narendranath |
10 |
|
V Ravichandran |
1 |
|
V S Narasimhan |
11 |
|
V Siva Reddy |
20 |
|
V V Hanumanta Rao |
17 |
|
Vaidhi |
5 |
|
Vamsy |
29 |
|
Vanraj Bhatia |
8 |
|
Vandemataram Srinivas |
399 |
|
Vasant Desai |
22 |
|
Vasantakumar Nayudu |
30 |
|
Vasu Rao |
122 |
|
Veda |
44 |
|
Vedavyas |
5 |
|
Veenapani (F) |
11 |
|
Veluri Krishnamurty |
87 |
|
Vidyasagar |
342 |
|
Vijay Raghava Rao |
1 |
|
Vijaya Bhaskar |
126 |
|
Vijaya Krishnamurty |
115 |
|
Vijaya Kumar |
1 |
|
Vijaya Sekhar |
6 |
|
Vijayanand |
13 |
|
Vinayaka Rao |
3 |
|
Vinjamuri Krishnamurty |
11 |
|
Vinjamuri Seetha (F) |
3 |
|
Vishal |
12 |
|
Viswanatha Satyanarayana |
5 |
|
Vosapuchan |
1 |
|
Yarlagadda |
8 |
|
Yehasan |
3 |
|
Yugandhar |
5 |
|
Yuvan Shankara Raja |
6 |
|
Yuvaraj |
12 |









