Filmfare Award for Best Music Director
The Filmfare Award for Best Music Director is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films, to the best composer/arranger of a soundtrack. This category was first presented in 1954. Naushad Ali was the first recipient of this award for his song "Tu Ganga Ki Mauj" from the film Baiju Bawra. For the first two years, it was awarded to the composer for a particular song and not the entire album. From 1956 onwards, awards in this category have been given for the entire soundtrack. From 2017, the name of this was category changed from best music direction to music album.
A. R. Rahman with his award of 2012 for the film Rockstar. He holds the record of maximum wins in this category.
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Image: Sachin Dev Burman 2007 stamp of India
Image: Hemant Kumar 2016 stamp of India
Filmfare is an Indian English-language fortnightly magazine published by Worldwide Media. Acknowledged as one of India's most popular entertainment magazines, it publishes pieces involving news, interviews, photos, videos, reviews, events, and style. The magazine also annually gives the Filmfare Awards, the Filmfare Awards South, the Filmfare Awards East, the Filmfare Marathi Awards, the Filmfare Awards Punjabi, the Filmfare Awards Bangla, the Filmfare OTT Awards, the Filmfare Short Film Awards and the Filmfare Style & Glamour Awards.
Cover of the April 2021 issue
The cover of the first issue of Filmfare, featuring Kamini Kaushal, in whose house Jain conceived the magazine's idea.
The cover of the 2 April 1954 issue of Filmfare, published a month after the 1st Filmfare Awards was held.
Actor Vijay inaugurating the event in 2007 and receiving his gift from Filmfare magazine CEO at the launch of South edition of Filmfare magazine