The following are notable Indian film music directors:
| Music director | Language | |
|---|---|---|
| Aadesh Shrivastava | Hindi, Bengali | |
| Aby Tom Cyriac | Malayalam | |
| Abhimann Roy | Kannada, Telugu | |
| Achu Rajamani | Tamil, Malayalam | |
| Adnan Sami | Hindi | |
| Ajay–Atul | Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Sanskrit | |
| Ajay Srivastava | Bhojpuri | |
| Amaal Mallik | Hindi, Tamil, Telugu | |
| Amit Trivedi | Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil | |
| Anand Raj Anand | Hindi | |
| Anand–Milind | Hindi | |
| Anand Modak | Marathi | |
| Anil Biswas | Hindi, Bengali | |
| Anil Mohile | Marathi | |
| Anirudh Ravichander | Tamil, Telugu, Hindi | |
| Ankit Tiwari | Hindi | |
| Anup Rubens | Telugu | |
| Anoop Seelin | Kannada | |
| Anu Malik | Hindi, Bengali, Kannada | |
| Arjuna Harjai | Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi | |
| Arjun Janya | Kannada | |
| A. R. Rahman | Tamil, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Punjabi, Malayalam, Kannada, English, Gujarati, Mandarin, Japanese, Persian, Arabic, | |
| A. R. Reihana | Tamil, Kannada | |
| Aruldev | Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada | |
| Arun Paudwal | Hindi, Marathi | |
| Ashok Bhatt | Gujarati | |
| Ashok Ghosh[1] | Hindi, Bengali | |
| Ashok Patki | Marathi, Konkani | |
| Avadhoot Gupte | Marathi | |
| Avinash Vyas | Hindi, Gujarati | |
| Baba Sehgal | Hindi | |
| Bappi Lahiri | Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu | |
| B Ajaneesh Loknath | Kannada, Tamil | |
| Berny-Ignatius | Malayalam | |
| Bennet–Veetraag | Malayalam | |
| Bharadwaj | Tamil, Telugu | |
| Bhaskar Chandavarkar | Marathi, Kannada, Hindi | |
| Bhavesh Bhatt | Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, English, Punjabi | |
| Bhavatharini | Tamil | |
| Bheems Ceciroleo | Telugu | |
| Bhupen Hazarika | Hindi, Bengali, Assamese | |
| Bijibal | Malayalam | |
| Bulo C Rani | Hindi | |
| C. R. Subbaraman | Tamil, Telugu, Hindi | |
| C. Ramchandra | Hindi, Marathi, Telugu | |
| Chaitan Bharadwaj | Telugu | |
| Chakri | Telugu, Kannada | |
| Chand Pardesi[2] | Hindi | |
| Chandrabose | Tamil | |
| Chitragupta | Hindi | |
| Chirrantan Bhatt | Hindi, Telugu | |
| C. Ashwath | Kannada | |
| Chowdiah | Kannada, Tamil | |
| Chaitra HG | Kannada | |
| Colonial Cousins | Hindi, Tamil | |
| Damodar Raao | Bhojpuri, Hindi, Marathi | |
| Datta Davjekar | Marathi, Hindi | |
| Datta Naik | Marathi, Hindi | |
| Dattaram Wadkar | Hindi, Marathi | |
| Debojyoti Mishra | Hindi, Bengali | |
| Deva | Tamil | |
| Devan Ekambaram | Tamil | |
| Devi Sri Prasad | Telugu, Tamil, Hindi | |
| Deepak Dev | Malayalam, Tamil | |
| Dharan | Tamil | |
| Dhina | Tamil | |
| Dharma Vish | Kannada, Hindi | |
| Emani Sankara Sastry | Hindi, Telugu | |
| G.Aswathama[3] | Telugu | |
| Ghulam Mohammed (composer) | Hindi | |
| G. K. Venkatesh | Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu | |
| G. Devarajan | Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada | |
| Gangai Amaran | Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam | |
| Gopi Sunder | Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi | |
| Ghantasala | Telugu, Tamil, Kannada | |
| Gali Penchala Narasimha Rao | Telugu | |
| Ghibran | Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam | |
| Gurukiran | Kannada, Telugu | |
| G. V. Prakash Kumar | Tamil, Telugu, Kannada | |
| Hamsalekha | Kannada, Tamil, Telugu | |
| Hansraj Behl | Hindi, Punjabi | |
| Harris Jayaraj | Tamil, Telugu, Hindi | |
| Malayam, Telugu | ||
| Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay | Bengali, Hindi | |
| Himesh Reshammiya | Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Bhojpuri, Marathi, English and French | |
| Hridaynath Mangeshkar | Hindi, Marathi | |
| Hiphop Tamizha | Tamil, Telugu | |
| Husnlal Bhagatram | Hindi | |
| Ishaan Dev | Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada | |
| Ilayaraja | Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Kannada, English, Marathi[4] | |
| Iqbal Qureshi | Hindi | |
| Ismail Darbar | Hindi | |
| Imman | Tamil, Telugu, Kannada | |
| Jagjit Singh | Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi | |
| Jaidev | Hindi | |
| James Vasanthan | Tamil | |
| Jassie Gift | Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu | |
| Jatin–Lalit | Hindi, Bengali, Telugu | |
| Jeet Ganguly | Hindi, Bengali | |
| Jerry Amaldev | Malayalam | |
| Johnson | Malayalam, Tamil | |
| Joshua Sridhar | Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu | |
| Jubair Muhammed | Malayalam | |
| Joy Sarkar | Bengali | |
| J. V. Raghavulu | Telugu | |
| Kabir Suman | Bengali | |
| K. V. Mahadevan | Tamil, Telugu | |
| K. Chakravarthy | Kannada, Telugu | |
| K | Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam | |
| K. Kalyan | Kannada | |
| Kailash-Naresh-Paresh | Hindi | |
| Kalyanji-Anandji | Hindi, Gujarati | |
| Kanu Roy | Hindi, Bengali | |
| Kannur Rajan | Malayalam | |
| Karthik | Tamil | |
| Karthikeya Murthy | Tamil, Telugu | |
| Karthik Raja | Tamil, Kannada | |
| Kelkar[5] | Marathi, Telugu | |
| Komanduri Ramachari | Telugu | |
| K. Prasada Rao[6] | Telugu | |
| Krishnarao Phulambrikar | Hindi, Marathi | |
| Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan | Tamil | |
| Khayyam | Hindi | |
| Khemchand Prakash | Hindi | |
| Hindi, Urdu | ||
| Kishore Kumar | Hindi, Bengali | |
| Kumar Sanu | Hindi, Bengali | |
| Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan | Tamil | |
| Lachhiram Tomar[7] | Hindi | |
| Lalit Pandit | Hindi | |
| Laxmikant–Pyarelal | Hindi, Telugu | |
| Lesle Lewis | Hindi, Marathi | |
| Lata Mangeshkar | Marathi as Anandghan | |
| L. Vaidyanathan | Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam | |
| Madan Mohan | Hindi | |
| Master Venu | Telugu, Tamil | |
| M. S. Viswanathan | Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu | |
| M. Ranga Rao | Kannada | |
| M. M. Keeravani/M. M. Kreem | Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam | |
| Mani Sharma | Telugu, Tamil | |
| Madhavapeddi Suresh | Telugu | |
| Manikanth Kadri | Kannada, Tamil | |
| Mano Murthy | Kannada | |
| Manoj George | Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi | |
| Meet Bros | Hindi, Punjabi | |
| Mejo Joseph | Malayalam | |
| M. G. Radhakrishnan | Malayalam, Tamil | |
| M. G. Sreekumar | Malayalam, Tamil | |
| Telugu | ||
| Mithoon Sharma | Hindi | |
| M.Janardhan[8] | Telugu | |
| M. Jayachandran | Malayalam, Tamil | |
| M. M. Srilekha | Telugu | |
| Monty Sharma | Hindi | |
| M. S. Baburaj | Malayalam | |
| M. Venkataraju | Kannada, Tamil | |
| Nadeem–Shravan | Hindi | |
| Naushad Ali | Hindi, Bhojpuri, Malayalam | |
| Neeta Sen | Bengali | |
| Nilesh Moharir | Marathi | |
| Nitz 'N' Sony | Hindi | |
| Nitesh Tiwari | Hindi [9] | |
| Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | Hindi | |
| O. P. Nayyar | Hindi, Telugu | |
| Ouseppachan | Malayalam, Tamil | |
| P. Adinarayana Rao | Telugu, Tamil, Hindi | |
| Pankaj Mullick | Hindi, Bengali | |
| Pannalal Ghosh | Hindi, Bengali | |
| Papanasam Sivan | Tamil, Kannada | |
| Pendyala Nageswara Rao | Telugu, Tamil | |
| Perumbavoor G. Raveendranath | Malayalam | |
| P. Kalinga Rao | Kannada | |
| Prashanth R Vihari | Telugu | |
| Prashant Pillai | Hindi, Malayalam | |
| Pravin Mani | Tamil, Telugu | |
| Praveen D Rao | Kannada | |
| Prem Dhawan | Hindi, Punjabi | |
| Prem Anand | Odia, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali | |
| Premgi Amaren | Tamil | |
| Pritam Chakraborty | Hindi, Bengali | |
| P. Bhanumathi | Telugu, Tamil | |
| P.V.R. Raja | Telugu, Hindi | |
| Raichand Boral | Hindi, Bengali | |
| Raj Kamal | Hindi | |
| Ramlal Hirapanna Chowdhury[10] | Hindi | |
| Ravi (composer) | Hindi, Malayalam | |
| Rahul Dev Burman | Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Oriya, Marathi, English | |
| Ramjeevan | Tamil | |
| R. Sudarsanam | Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam | |
| Raghu Dixit | Kannada | |
| Rahul Raj | Telugu, Malayalam | |
| Raj–Koti | Telugu, Tamil, Kannada | |
| Raju Singh | Hindi, Punjabi | |
| Rajan–Nagendra | Kannada, Telugu | |
| Rajesh Ramanath | Kannada | |
| Rajesh Roshan | Hindi, Bengali | |
| Rajkumar R. Pandey | Bhojpuri | |
| Rajnish Mishra | Bhojpuri | |
| Ram Kadam | Marathi | |
| Raamlaxman | Marathi, Hindi | |
| R. P. Patnaik | Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Hindi | |
| Ramana Gogula | Telugu, Tamil, Kannada | |
| Ramesh Naidu | Telugu | |
| Ranjit Barot | Hindi | |
| Raveendran | Malayalam, Tamil | |
| Ravi Basrur | Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi. | |
| Ravindra Jain | Hindi, Telugu | |
| Ricky Kej | Malayalam, Kannada | |
| Rohan-Rohan | Hindi, Marathi | |
| Roop Kumar Rathod | Hindi, Bengali | |
| Roshan | Hindi | |
| Sachin–Jigar | Hindi, Gujarati | |
| Sadhu Kokila | Kannada | |
| Sajid–Wajid | Hindi | |
| Salil Chowdhury | Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam | |
| Saleel Kulkarni | Marathi | |
| Salim–Sulaiman | Hindi, Tamil, Telugu | |
| Sanjib Sarkar | Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, English & Devotional[11] | |
| Sandesh Shandilya | Hindi | |
| Sandeep Chowta | Hindi, Telugu | |
| Sangeet-Siddharth | Hindi, Marathi | |
| Sanjay Leela Bhansali | Hindi | |
| Sanjeev–Darshan | Hindi | |
| Santosh Mishra | Hindi, Bhojpuri, Gujarati | |
| Sapan-Jagmohan[12] | Hindi, Bengali | |
| S. A. Rajkumar | Tamil, Telugu, Kannada | |
| Sardar Malik | Hindi | |
| Sardul Singh Kwatra | Hindi | |
| Satyam | Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu | |
| S. D. Burman | Hindi, Bengali | |
| Shankar Rao Vyas[13] | Hindi, Marathi | |
| Shankar–Ganesh | Tamil, Kannada, Telugu | |
| Shanti Kumar Desai | Hindi, Gujarati | |
| Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy | Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu, English | |
| Shankar Mahadevan | Tamil, Marathi, Hindi | |
| Shankar–Jaikishan | Hindi, Bengali, Telugu | |
| Shiv–Hari | Hindi | |
| S. Hanumantha Rao | Telugu | |
| Shantanu Moitra | Hindi, Bengali | |
| Sharreth | Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu | |
| Shashwat Sachdev | Hindi | |
| Shyam | Malayalam, Tamil | |
| Shruti Haasan | Tamil, Telugu | |
| Simon K. King | Tamil, Telugu | |
| S. M. Subbaiah Naidu | Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu | |
| S. N. Tripathi | Hindi | |
| S. Narayan | Kannada | |
| Snehal Bhatkar | Hindi, Marathi | |
| Sneha Khanwalkar | Hindi | |
| Sohail Sen | Hindi, Bengali | |
| S. P. Balasubrahmanyam | Telugu, Kannada, Tamil | |
| S. P. Kodandapani | Telugu, Tamil, Kannada | |
| S. P. Venkatesh | Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam | |
| Salur Rajeswara Rao | Telugu, Tamil, Kannada | |
| Srinivas | Tamil | |
| Srikanth Deva | Tamil | |
| Sri | Telugu | |
| Snehal Bhatkar | Hindi, Marathi | |
| Sajjad Hussain | Hindi | |
| Sudhir Phadke | Hindi, Marathi | |
| Suresh Peters | Malayalam, Tamil | |
| Susarla Dakshinamurthi | Telugu, Tamil | |
| S. V. Krishna Reddy | Telugu | |
| Santhosh Narayanan | Tamil, Telugu | |
| Sweekar Agasthi | Telugu | |
| Selvaganesh | Tamil, Kannada | |
| Thaman S | Telugu, Tamil, Kannada | |
| T. Chalapathi Rao | Telugu | |
| T. V. Raju | Telugu | |
| T. G. Lingappa | Kannada, Tamil, Telugu | |
| T. K. Ramamoorthy | Tamil, Telugu | |
| Upendra Kumar | Kannada | |
| Usha Khanna | Hindi | |
| Uttam Singh | Hindi, Tamil | |
| Usha Khanna | Hindi | |
| Vandemataram Srinivas | Telugu | |
| Vani Harikrishna | Kannada | |
| Vanraj Bhatia | Hindi | |
| Varun Unni | Malayalam | |
| Vasant Desai | Hindi, Marathi | |
| V. Dakshinamoorthy | Malayalam, Tamil | |
| Vasant Desai | Marathi, Hindi | |
| V. Harikrishna | Kannada, Telugu | |
| Vidyasagar | Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam | |
| Vijay Antony | Tamil, Telugu | |
| Vijay Prakash | Tamil, Kannada | |
| Vijaya Bhaskar | Kannada | |
| Viju Shah | Hindi, Gujarati | |
| Vikram Montrose | Hindi | |
| Vishal Bhardwaj | Hindi | |
| Vivek Sagar | Telugu | |
| Vishal Mishra | Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu | |
| Vishal–Shekhar | Hindi, Marathi, Telugu | |
| Viswajith | Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, English | |
| V. Kumar | Tamil | |
| V. Manohar | Kannada | |
| V. Nagayya | Telugu | |
| V. Ravichandran | Kannada | |
| Yashwant Deo[14] | Hindi, Marathi | |
| Yuvan Shankar Raja | Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, English | |
| Honey Singh | Punjabi | |
| Zakir Hussain | Independent | |
| Zubeen Garg | Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, English |